A/N: Another chapter for you. ENJOY!
Katie really didn't want to be touched…at all. But right now she was awaken by someone's hand on her forehead. That's right, she was finally sleeping, weird dreams and all, she didn't care. She didn't know why but she really didn't care, all she wanted to do was sleep. That plan was thwarted. She opened her eyes and down looked a very worried Abby. When Katie left Dean to his phone call she ended up at Jet's house. What she didn't expect was to suddenly start feeling like crap and having to take up residence in one of the man's guest rooms. It was nice, except for the whole not locking the door, especially when anyone could just walk in and start touching her, which she didn't want… at all.
"Abby, what are you doing?" Katie asked her voice groggy from sleep. The goth sat on the edge of the bed next to Katie.
"I'm worried about you" Abby said. "You haven't been sick in a long time, and for you to suddenly get sick is freaking me out" Abby's hand went back to Katie's forehead.
"Abby" Katie said pushing the hand away. "I don't have a fever, it's probably just a bug or something"
"Or something, that's the problem" Abby snapped. "Get up I'm taking you to the doctor"
"I'm not going to see a doctor Abby" Katie said turning over, her back facing the girl. "I'm fine, go away so I can sleep"
"It's one o'clock in the afternoon" Abby said. "Have you been in bed all day?"
"No, there are the few times I got out of bed" Katie replied.
"And that was for?" Abby asked
"For-" Katie stopped talking because it was about to happen. "Hold that thought" the woman jumped from the bed and ran down the hallway to the bathroom. Abby confused ran after her, but stopped when the bathroom door was slammed in her face. She pressed her ear against the door and could hear her friend retching.
"That's it, if you won't go to the hospital, then Ducky is checking you out" Abby called.
"Fine" Katie sighed from the bathroom.
Katie allowed her friend to pull her into the elevator of NCIS. She leaned her head against the wall. All she wanted was to go back to bed. Everything just felt so perfect in her bed. She heard the elevator ding and the door slid open revealing two familiar face.
"Abby?" Tony said looking between the forensic scientist and the very pale boss' daughter. "What are you doing here?" he looked back to Abby. "I thought the boss said to just let her sleep it off"
"Well I was worried" Abby said grabbing Katie's arm and pulling her from her semi-comfortable position on the wall. "And I just wanted to make sure she was alright"
"So you brought her to see autopsy?" Ziva asked following behind the two.
"No, to see Ducky" Abby called over her shoulder.
"Abby I would-" Tony said but before he could finish they were already entering the room.
"Is that-?" Katie asked her face growing even paler as her eyes fell on the body that lay on the table.
"Oh dear" Ducky said turning to Katie. She noticed he was covered in blood and that didn't help. "You really don't look well"
"Thank you Dr. States the obvious" Katie said before turning and running out of autopsy looking for the nearest toilet, trashcan, or anything she could stick her head in.
After Abby found Katie face down in a recycling bin, she took her friend back to her lab and let her lie down on her new futon. Abby walked back and leaned against her desk staring at her.
"You're just gonna stare at me?" Katie asked looking over to her.
"What's going on?" Abby asked.
"I don't know Abby" Katie sighed closing her eyes. "I just want to sleep"
"I thought you and sleep weren't on the same page?" Abby asked. "What happened to change this?" Katie opened her eyes and looked over to her friend.
"I've been sleeping ever since…" She stopped, the words kind of painful to say. She hadn't spoken to Dean since she left, he'd called but she just didn't answer.
"Ever since?" Abby asked.
"Abs!" a voice called and she sighed.
"In here Gibbs!" the woman answered. It didn't take long for the agent to appear in Goth's lab.
"I thought I told you to leave her" Gibbs said walking over to Katie. "You ok?"
"I'm fine, really" Katie replied.
"That's why you've spent half your days in bed and the other half with your head down the toilet?" Abby asked. "Something is wrong and I for one want to know what"
"Where's Ducky?" Gibbs asked.
"He said he would stop by to see her when he's finished exhuming the captain's body" Abby replied.
"You get anything from those finger prints?" Gibbs asked.
"You mean the partial?" Abby asked. "Well Afis is still searching the database"
Katie!
The witch sat up from the couch quickly and two sets of eyes went to her. Someone just called her name, but they seemed so far away.
"What's wrong?" Abby asked standing from her desk.
Katie!
There it was again. It was quiet but there was no doubt that someone, somewhere was calling her name.
"Do you guys hear that?" Katie asked and Abby and Gibbs both shook their heads no. "That's what I was afraid of" She stood off the couch.
"What's going on?" Gibbs asked.
"That's what I want to know" Katie said closing her eyes. "Someone is calling my name, but for some reason it's like they extremely faraway"
"Isn't everyone who calls you, extremely far away?" Abby asked.
"Yeah, but I usually can hear them clearer than this" Katie said and that's when she recognized the voice. "It's Sam" she opened her eyes and before Gibbs or Abby could say anything she was gone. They stood there for a moment before they heard a crash in Abby's lab. They quickly went in to see Katie sitting one her butt, paper strewn around.
"You alright?" Gibbs asked grabbing Katie's arm and helping her to her feet. "What just happened?"
"I have no idea" Katie said. "I think my powers are out of whack again" she shook her head. "I thought I was over this"
"Maybe it's because you're sick" Abby said and Katie just glared over to her.
"I'm not sick Abby" Katie said.
"Fine, let me get some of your blood to see if there are any irregularities" Abby suggested and Katie sighed.
"Fine" Katie said. Abby quickly went back into her office and grabbed a syringe before drawing a bit of Katie's blood. After bandaging her arm, Katie decided to give finding Sam another chance. She closed her eyes and before she knew it she was falling again, at least this time it was on a soft surface. She opened her eyes and two confused eyes were on her as she lay in a strange bed.
KATIE!
The voice was getting urgent and Katie felt a subtle pang of fear and pain. She didn't know what was going on.
"Now that's a crash landing" Katie said. "who's bed am I in?"
"Our missing girl" Sam replied. "What are you doing here?"
"You didn't call me did you?" Katie asked standing from the bed. Sam furrowed his brow.
"Uh, no" Sam replied.
"I called" Dean said and Katie looked over to him.
"I know you called me" Katie replied. "I'm avoiding that conversation for as long as I can"
"You mind telling me how long that's gonna be, because we seriously need to talk" Dean said.
"I know" Katie sighed before turning back to Sam. "You sure you didn't call me, because I could've sworn the voice was yours, it just sound very far away"
"I'm sure it wasn't me" Sam replied turning back to the laptop.
"That's weird" Katie said before turning to Dean, who was staring at her. "What?" he quickly brought a hand to her forehead.
"Are you sick?" Dean asked. "You don't look too good" Katie slapped his hand away.
"Now you sound like Abby" Katie replied. "I'm fine, it's just a bug I will be better tomorrow" They stood there for a moment. "Ok, I should go"
"We're going to talk" Dean said and Katie shook her head before closing her eyes. Dean watched as nothing happened.
"Am I gone yet?" Katie asked cracking open an eye. "Damnit, I'm not"
"What's up with your powers?" Dean asked and Katie huffed out a puff of air.
"I have no idea" Katie replied. "One moment everything working fine and dandy and the next I'm falling into random beds" she sighed. "Looks like I'm not going anywhere, anytime soon" she saw a glimpse of a smile on Dean's face and shook her head.
"Well you're gonna have to go out that window" Sam replied turning back to face her. "The parents are probably gonna have questions if we went looking for their daughter and bring a strange woman back down with us" she walked over and saw that she could climb down the tree, but she really didn't want to… at all. She turned around and finally got a glimpse of the girls room.
"She's a Summer's Blood fan?" Katie asked and both Sam and Dean turned to her. "What?... I read things that aren't ancient or written in a different language"
"Yeah, but this?" Dean asked. "A book about falling in love with a vampires" he turned to the poster the hung behind him. "Not even vampires, these are douchebags" he heard Katie chuckle and turned to her. He loved her laugh. He smiled over to her and they had a moment.
"Hey how many t's are in Patti-" Sam asked. "Wait I got it, I'm in"
"Well?" Dean asked walking over and glancing at the screen over Sam's shoulder.
"Well, her inbox is full, from some guy claiming to be a vampire." Sam said and Katie snorted.
"If that's weird, neither one of you would like to see what's in my inbox" She said and both looked at her as she took a seat on the edge of the bed. "I mean, really a real vampire?"
"Well, uh..." Sam said turning back to the screen "I can only meet you at night...I don't trust myself with you...the call of your blood is too strong..." he turned back over to Katie. " Vampires fishing for victims?"
"I wouldn't put it past them" Katie replied thinking of the many vampires she has come across, one sheriff coming to mind. "Or it could be a human, mouth breather"
"On the other hand" Sam said reading over some more emails. "- talk about easy prey."
"For actual vamps." Dean added.
"Yeah. I mean, these chicks are just throwing themselves at you." Sam replied. " All you gotta do is...I dunno. Write bad poetry."
"Huh!" Dean said.
"Wow. This guy wanted to meet her at a place called The Black Rose." Sam read looking over to the screen before turning back to the screen.
"Gimme a break..." Dean replied rolling his eyes.
"Sounds like a place Abby would go" Katie replied. "Actually I really don't want to think about the places Abby goes"
"It's probably just your standard-issue perv, right?" Dean asked as Sam closed the lap top.
"It's funny when you hope that there's a perv out there kidnapping young girls" Katie said standing to her feet. "Well then I guess I should leave you to it" she closed her eyes and stood there for a moment. "Am I still here?"
"Yes" Sam and Dean both said and she opened her eyes.
"Son of a-" she turned and walked over to the window. "I'll meet you guys by the car" they watched as she latched on to the tree and climbed down.
Katie was leaning against the car waiting for Sam and Dean to finally come out. She still couldn't explain the voice that was calling her name. Her thoughts were torn by a sudden flash. She closed her eyes.
She was standing in an alley way. She heard someone screaming and turned to see a truck full of vampires killing the driver inside of a white van. She watches as the other vampires take loads of blood from the van and pile it in the truck.
"Damnit!" Katie yells grabbing the sides of her head. Her visions haven't hurt like this in a long while. She thought she'd controlled it enough that she was past this. When she opened up her eyes she was sitting on the ground leaning her back against the impala. She felt a churning in her stomach and quickly stood to her feet and ran to the trash bin that stood in front of the house across the street. She retched into the bin until she felt a hand on her back. She turned to see a worried Dean looking back at her. She wiped her mouth with her sleeve. "So, definitely vampires"
Katie had her eyes closed when as she leaned against the impala as Sam talked to Samuel about their vampire situation. They arrived at Sam and Dean's motel a few moments earlier. She felt a hand on her arm and opened her eyes to see Dean with a ginger ale in his hand for her.
"Thanks" Katie said taking the drink. "Hopefully it works" she took a sip of the cold beverage.
"How long have you had this little bug?" Dean asked as he went to pack up the trunk.
"Not long" Katie lied. "Maybe a couple of days" Dean looked over to her. "But seriously I'm totally fine, especially when I'm sleep" Dean smiled. "What?"
"So you're sleeping now?" Dean asked and Katie just nodded. "You're welcome" Katie scoffed.
"Oh, shut up" Katie sighed leaning on the side of the trunk. Sam hung up the phone and turned to the two.
"Ok, so we find the nest, we find the vamps" Sam said. "We figure what the hell is going on around here"
"Good plan" Katie said standing from the car. "You two have fun with that" she closed her eyes and tried to will herself back to Gibbs' place, back to the comfy bed but it was not happening.
"Looks like you're coming with, princess" Dean said and Katie sighed.
Katie leaned her head against the window of the impala as they headed to the Black Rose. It seemed a bit like déjà vu, her in the back seat, them in the front. It felt right. Dean glanced back at Katie in the rear view mirror and smiled. He missed having her around like this. He pulled up in front of the club.
Katie opened her eyes and looked over to the club and sighed.
"It looks loud" Katie said as she noticed a guy with way too many piercings walk by. "And emo" she turned back to Sam and Dean. "I think I'll wait out in the car, like the good ole days"
"You never liked waiting in the car" Dean said looking back to her. "You actually made a big point of letting us know that" he turned and looked out of the window. "Plus I don't want you barfing in my car"
"It always comes back to the car, doesn't it Dean" Katie replied. "Some things never change" he watched as she got out of the car. He and Sam did the same and followed behind her. "I think you should know there's a better chance of me barfing in here than in your car"
As it expected the place was loud. They found seats at the bar and the mixture of the loud music, flashing lights, and the smell of alcohol just made Katie's stomach churn. Whatever was wrong with her, she just wished it would move out of her system and quick. She found herself lying her head on the bar trying to block everything out. She could hear Dean and Sam talking but she wasn't paying attention to what they were saying.
"Hey" she heard Dean before feeling his arm snake around her back. She lifted her head and looked over to her. "Do you need to go, because we can leave"
"No" she sighed. "Let's find our vampire" she swiveled the bar stool to the crowd.
"One's on the move." Sam says and Dean turns to the guy they were scoping out.
"So is the other guy" Dean says as the other guy they were scoping out leaves as well. "All right. You go with Efron, I got Bieber."
"And me?" Katie asked and Dean turned to her.
"Stay here" Dean said. "I doubt you're up to vampire hunting"
"Please I can vampire hunt with the best of them" she stood to her feet, not expecting to feel dizzy. "Or not" Dean brought a hand to her back and helped her to her seat. "I'm not letting you guys do this alone"
"You don't have a choice princess" Dean said before placing a kiss on her forehead. "Stay put, we'll be back" Katie watched as they left and could help be worry.
"Hey" Katie turned to see a man. Someone who didn't look as if this was the type of place he would hang out. There was the lack of tattoos or piercings, he definitely looked like a fish out of water "It's you"
"Excuse me" Katie said eying the man. She turned back to the crowd trying to focus on Sam and Dean in case she sensed they needed her. "Look I'm not interested, so please go away"
"Hey" he grabbed her arm and turned her to face him. "It's me, Ryan" she looked at him for a moment and then to his hand on her arm before snatching it away.
"Ryan is it" she grabbed his arm twisting it behind his back and slamming his face into the bar. "I don't know you, and obviously you don't know me because you wouldn't have put your hands on me" she felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. She turned. It was Dean. She let the man go and ran. Ryan stood up from the bar rubbing his arm, watching the woman retreat. Katie runs into the alley and looks around before spotting Dean laying on the ground, and there's blood, lots of blood. Sam stands there machete in hand over him. "Dean!" she runs to him, dropping by his side bringing his eyes to her's. "Hey, baby can you hear me" his eyes meet hers.
"Hey princess" Dean says weakly, blood dripping from his mouth. She turns to Sam who stares down at her.
"What happened?" She asked angrily.
"It was a vampire" Sam said. "I was too late, and he got away" Katie shook her head before turning back to Dean. Something wasn't right.
"We need to get him out of here" Katie said. "Help me get him to the car" Sam nodded before grabbing one of Dean's arms and throwing it around his neck. Katie did the same with the other. They carried Dean back to the car, and Katie glanced over to Sam. She may have been off her game, but she could still spot a lie, and Sam lied straight through his teeth.
Back at the motel Katie paces the floor when Dean sits up from the bed grabbing his head.
"Oh my God, what is that SOUND?" Dean said before reaching forward and pushing the lamp. Katie watched as it crashed into the floor. She turns when Sam comes back into the room. "Hey, c'mon, keep it down, dammit!" Dean said placing his hands over his ears. "PLEASE shut that off...geez..." Sam walks over and turns the light off.
"Dean...you should sit down..." Katie says walking over to him.
"YOU sit down." Dean snaps taking a seat on the edge of the bed cradling his head in his hands. "Of all the ways to die, I never thought I'd be going out like this."
"You're not going out Dean" Katie said kneeling in front of him. "I won't let that happen, I will fix this"
"Yeah, you fix everything right" Dean said. "Just hope my memory's still in tact when you're done helping" Katie stood to her feet and backed away. "Look I-" Dean dropped his head. "Just want it to stop"
"Dean" Katie says going over and placing her hands on his, on the side of his head. His eyes move to hers and for a second there's silence, when suddenly an aroma passes by his nose. He suddenly grabs Katie's arms. "Dean what are you doing?" they stand to their feet as he squeezes harder.
"You smell" Dean closes his eyes and inhales deeply.
"Dean let me go" Katie says trying to pull from his grasp. She turns to Sam. "Do something" Sam quickly comes over and grabs Dean, loosening his grip enough for Katie to back away.
"You should go" Sam says looking over to Kati before releasing Dean.
"I'm not going anywhere" Katie replied. "Dean, are you ok?"
"I'm…" he shakes his head before looking over to Katie. "I'm sorry"
"it's fine" Katie replies taking a step toward him.
"Don't'" Dean says holding a hand out to her. "Don't come near me"
"Dean-"
"No, I don't want to hurt you" Dean says.
"Dean, you're not gonna hurt me" Katie says walking over to stand in front of him. "And I'm not going anywhere"
"That's funny, I thought your whole goal was to get out of here" Dean spat. "Leave me, run away" he looked over to her. "It's what you're good at princess, wouldn't want to disappoint" he walked past her.
"Where are you going?" Sam asked.
"To the bathroom Sam!" Dean snapped. "Vampires pee" he slammed the door behind him and Katie jumped a bit at the noise.
"He's right" Sam said and Katie looked over to him. "You should go"
"I'm not-" she stopped and closed her eyes and turned to the door. She opened them and quickly went over to it. She reached for the door knob, but it was locked. "Dean!" she called twisting the knob. She pounded on the door with her hand. "Let me in" She turned and Sam was right behind. He moved and broke the door in. They walked in to find the bathroom empty.
"Where do you think he would go?" Sam asked and Katie just shook her head. She tried focusing on Dean, and that's when she found the connection, but it was weak. She didn't know if it was the vampire blood or her whacked out powers but trying to hold on was tough.
"Where are you babe?" Katie asked herself bringing her hand to her bracelet. She closed her eyes and tries connecting to him, when it suddenly happens. Before she knows it she's falling onto someone's lawn. "I'm so tired of the falling" she opens her eyes and her breath hitches at the house in front of her. She looks up when she hears a crash. Without thinking she runs up the stairs and turns the knob. She's relieved when it opens. The first thing she see is a very frightened Ben standing at the bottom of the stairs. He turns when she walks through the door.
"What's going on?" Ben asks. "Who are you?"
"I'm here to help" Katie says placing her hand on the boy's shoulder. "Stay here, ok" he nods before watching her ascend the stairs. The moment Katie reaches the top she hears their voices.
"Just tell me. Just tell me what the hell is going on..." Lisa says angrily. Katie stops when she hears fast movement and then something being slammed. She quickly makes her way to the room to see Dean with Lisa pinned to the wall. Without thinking she lifts a hand and tosses him away from her to the other side of the bed. Lisa turns to Katie, fear in her eyes.
"Get down stairs" Katie says and Lisa turns to see Dean making his way to his feet, fangs now descended. "Now!" Lisa quickly runs down the stairs past Katie. Katie slowly makes her way into the room and Dean turns to her. "Dean" she moves slowly towards him.
"Don't" Dean says holding a hand to her. "Don't take another step"
"That's like asking me to stop breathing" Katie said a small smile coming to her lips. "Kind of impossible" she takes another step to him.
"I don't want to hurt you" Dean said as Katie stepped in front of him. That smell playing under his nose. He wanted nothing more than to grab her and drink her blood. "I can't hurt you"
"You will not hurt me" Katie said before grabbing his hands and placing them around her waist.
"You don't know that" Dean said restraining himself becoming more and more difficult. She brought her hands to the side of his face, so their eyes were on each other.
"Yes I do" Katie replied. "Wanna know how?" she slid her hands to his chest. "Because I know your heart Dean, and I know whatever is happening to you, whatever is tearing at you inside, you will not hurt me"
"He's not himself, Sam. He's a monster and he's hungry." Dean turned to see that they were now standing in the motel room. "You gotta be prepared to do the right thing."
"I told you he'd kill me when he showed up." Dean said and Samuel and Sam turned to face him. He release Katie as both hunters draw their machetes.
"Did you feed?" Sam asked
"I went to say goodbye to Lisa..." Dean said. He glanced over to Katie. "which, for the record, was a lousy idea."
"Dean, answer the question." Sam said sternly.
"You can relax, I didn't "drink" anyone." Dean said glaring back over to his brother.
"Thank God." Samuel sighed.
"But I came close." Dean says removing his jacket. " All right. Do it."
"What?" Katie snaps glaring at her husband. "No" she turns back to Samuel. "There's a way to reverse this right?"
"Right" Samuel replied.
"What?" Dean asked.
"What?!" Sam said as well. Katie notices the look Samuel gives to Sam and it's odd. He turns back to Dean.
"I didn't drive all this way to kill you, Dean" Samuel said looking over to his grandson. " - I'm here to save you." He reaches in his bag and pulls out a journal and tosses it on the table. The three men moved to the table but Katie didn't move. Dean turned to face her and noticed she seemed to grow a bit pale. He almost forgot she wasn't feeling well.
"You ok?" Dean asked and she looked over to him.
"Yeah" She said. "I'm just gonna get some air" she turned and quickly made her way out the door. Once she was outside, she inhaled a deep breath of fresh air. She grabbed the railing and closed her eyes taking another deep breath.
"Hey" she opens her eyes and turns to see the guy from the club behind her. "Look before you say-" Katie glances at the door before looking back to the guy. "We need to talk"
"Look guy" Katie whispers. "I don't know who you are, but I do know that you can't be here right now" she grabs his arm and pulls him away from their motel room. "Look I don't know who you think I am, but I'm not so leave, before a very angry man comes out of that door"
"You can't tell me you don't remember me" Ryan said. He reached into his pocket and pulled out necklace. It was black chain with a black stone, surrounded by some sort of silver design. "You gave me this, told me to keep it safe" Katie looked at the stone and then over to the man.
"When did I give you this?" Katie asked.
"A few months ago" Ryan replied and Katie sighed. "But you seemed a little…"
"Not like the me you see now" Katie said. "Well that's because I'm not" she sighed running her hand through her hair. "The woman you met, who gave you that necklace, was not me" he looked at her confused. "Look I don't know what to tell you, but if you're supposed to keep it safe, than keep it safe" she looked back over to her room. "I have to go" she began walking when Ryan grabbed her arm. "Will you stop, doing that" she snatched her arm away from him.
"You can't just leave" Ryan said. "You don't understand, ever since the day I met you, nothing makes sense"
"Well that happens a lot to people who meet me" Katie snapped. "You need to go, because you're this close to getting yourself killed"
"By who?" Ryan asked. "You, because I doubt you'd be able to take me"
"Ok one, I think your hitting that bar with your face tonight kind of debunks that theory" Katie says. "And two I'm not here alone, and right now my husband is looking for someone's blood"
"Husband?" Ryan asked.
"Yes, now just go" Katie replied.
"So that's it?" Ryan asked. "Will I ever see you again?"
"Look if you ever need me, just call me" Katie said. "If I hear you than I'll be there, if I don't then no you won't see me" with that Katie turned and went back to the motel room.
Three pair of eyes went to her as soon as she entered.
"What's going on?" Katie asked. She noticed Dean putting on his jacket. "Where are we going?"
"We're not going anywhere" Dean said turning to her. "We need the blood from the vampire that did this to me, for the cure"
"Yeah" Katie said glancing over to Sam and Samuel. "You're not going by yourself"
"Yeah I am" Dean snapped. "Look you may have all this faith in me, but I don't trust myself with you" he sighed. "Look I'll go get the blood and then I'll come back"
"Right, I love how you make walking into a vampires nest sound so easy!" Katie snapped. "It's dangerous!"
"Oh, you're one to talk princess!" Dean said. "You're the queen of doing the what's dangerous, what since it's not you that's doing it, it's too dangerous"
"That's not what I said!" Katie said walking over to him.
"It doesn't matter" Dean said. "This isn't your decision" he shook his head. "That's part of our problem, you liking to make all the decisions for what you think is right, what you think I should do, the life I should live" he walked over to her. "This isn't your decision to make" he stormed past her grabbing a syringe from the table and out of the room, slamming the door behind him.
"Katie-" Sam said
"I'm following him" Katie says her voice low. "He's an idiot, but he's my idiot." She turns and walks out of the room. She walks into the parking lot and closes her eyes and focus on Dean, but nothing happens. She opens her eyes and sees Ryan leaning against his car. She walks over. "This your car?" he looks up. "Is this your car?"
"Yeah" he replies. "What's going on?"
"I need a ride" Katie said. "Where's your keys?"
"Look, I'll give you a ride anywhere, but no one drives my car" Ryan replied and Katie clenched her fist. She was not in the mood for another guy obsessed with his car.
"Ok, so I'm fully prepared to beat the crap out of you and then take your car" Katie said. "Or you can hand over the keys and get in" he shook his head before reaching into his pocket and tossing her the keys. "Thank you" They both quickly get into the car and Katie starts the engine floors it.
"you mind telling me where we're going?" Ryan says slipping on his seatbelt.
"I'm going to make sure my husband doesn't get killed by a nest a vampires" Katie said.
"Vampires?" Ryan asked and Katie glances over to him.
"Yeah, vampires are real so are ghosts, demon and a whole lot of other stuff" Katie says gripping the stirring wheel.
"Where's the nest?" Ryan asks and Katie looks over to him.
"you're a hunter?" Katie asked.
"You sound surprised" Ryan replied. "Where's the nest?"
"I don't know" Katie said turning back to the road. "Right now I'm not looking for a nest, I'm looking for my husband" she sighed. "That's all I have to go on right now"
"I know this may be a weird question and all but what's your name?" Ryan asks and Katie glances over to him. "Never got it"
"Katie" she replied. "Katie Winchester"
"Winchester?" Ryan asked. He'd definitely heard the name before. "Makes sense" Katie snorts.
She pulls up in front of a warehouse and sees the impala. She sighs as she looks at the building, he was in there, and she could feel it.
"You have weapons?" Katie asked looking over to him.
"I have a few" Ryan says getting out of the car and heading to his trunk. Katie follows and watches as the man opens his drunk revealing a very impressive arsenal. He reaches in and pulls out a machete and hand it to her. "You know how to use that thing?" Katie looks over the blade before gripping the handle in her hand. Without warning she throws the machete, Ryan dropping his head before turning in time to see the knife slice off a vampire's head.
"You can say that" Katie says walking over and picking up the machete. "You should go"
"I'm not leaving you here by yourself" Ryan says grabbing a machete as well and closing his trunk. "There is no telling how many are in there"
"This isn't your fight" Katie says turning to the man. She slams the keys into his chest. "Thanks for your help, but you're still the guy I just met twenty minutes ago"
"I'm not leaving you here" Ryan says. "So you can bitch and moan all you want" he walks past her toward the warehouse. She shakes her head before turning and catching up. She grabs his shoulder.
"Stop" she whispered moving in front of him. She grabs the door knob and slowly opens the door. She peaks inside and sees a couple of vampires standing around. She knows the moment she step inside, they'll smell her blood. She turns to Ryan. "I have a plan"
Katie waits outside the nest leaning against the wall clenching the machete in her hands. She hears commotion from inside and takes a deep breath.
"This is it" she says to herself. She sneaks in just as Ryan is cornered by two vampires.
"Hey!" she yells and they both turn to her.
"It's her" one of the vampires says before inhaling deeply. A smile comes to his face before they both run toward Katie, but she disappeared before they reached her.
"Oh, thank God" Katie says and the two vampires turn just in time to see a machete coming toward them, cutting their heads clean off. Katie turns to Ryan who seems to be staring in amazement. "You ok?"
"That was awesome" Ryan said.
"Yeah, when it's working properly" Katie says. She turns when she hears more footsteps. "More are coming" Ryan nods gripping his machete.
"Go, I can handle a couple of vamp" Ryan says. "Go find your guy"
"You sure?" Katie asked when she hears something from outside. She walks over and peaks out the door to see Sam and Samuel pull up. "Help is here" she turns back to Ryan.
"You'll have some assistance soon" Katie says before running up the stairs of the warehouse. She comes to a halt seeing a vampire at the end of the walkway she turns and there's another one behind her.
"You smell delicious" one of the vampires says easing toward Katie. "You probably taste just as scrumptious"
"Uh, thanks" Katie replies gripping the machete. "So we gonna talk or are we going to do this, because there is a bed calling my name" The vampire growls before they both coming running toward her. She takes a deep breath and closes her eyes.
"Next lesson" Gus said circling a blind folded Katie a stick in hand. "There's gonna be a time when you're gonna have to fight and you're hurt or you're sick, just not at the top of your game"
"I'm always on my game" Katie says and the old hunter rolls his eyes.
"You won't always" Gus replies. "And in that case you're gonna have to rely on your other senses, force your body to move" He hits the stick to the back of her knees.
"Hey!" Katie says rubbing her knees, but he hits her other leg. "Son of a- "
"You're gonna be off your game" Gus says. "Fighting against being more powerful and stronger than you, not being on your game is like being blind" he hits her in the stomach. "You need to be able to make up for losing part of your game"
"How?" Katie asks clenching her stomach.
"Listen" Gus says circling the witch. "To the wind, to my footsteps, my breathing. Where am I?" he swings the stick, but this time Katie ducks, before turning grabbing the stick swinging it under the man's legs causing him to fall to the ground. She reaches up and slides the blind fold off.
"You're on the ground" Katie says giving the stick a twirl in her hands.
Katie opens her eyes as the bodies of two headless vampires fall to the ground. She hears footsteps behind her and turn to see Sam, Samuel and Ryan.
"You ok?" Ryan asks before looking down to the vampires. "Of course you are" he looks back up to her as she turns and runs to check on Dean. She stops when she finally spots him from the balcony of the warehouse. He looks up to her as the others come up from behind her.
"Looks like your brother has some Campbell in him after all." Samuel says . Katie's eyes never leave Dean. She takes a step to go to him, but someone catches her arm. She turns to see Ryan staring back at her in concern.
"What are you doing?" Ryan asks. "That's a vamp"
"No, that's my husband" Katie says pulling free from his grasp. She turns back to Dean. "Are you ok?"
"Yeah" Dean says glancing down to the vampires head. "I'm good"
Ryan heard someone behind him as he packs up his trunk. He turns to see Katie walking over to him.
"I told you to leave" Katie says. "You should've listened"
"And missed this awesome fight" Ryan replied. "See the epic Katherine Winchester in action" she quirked an eyebrow at him. "I've heard stories about you and none of them compared to actually seeing you in action"
"They never are" Katie replies. "Look thanks, I have no idea who you are and why you would even help me like this but thank" she holds out her hand and he shakes it.
"How's he doing?" Ryan asks looking over her shoulder to see Dean glaring at them. Katie turns and sees the look.
"He'll be better soon" Katie replies before turning back to Ryan. "Look I was serious before, that necklace, keep it safe" she reaches in her pocket and pulls out a piece of paper and hands it to him. "And in case you call and I don't answer here's a backup" he opens the paper to see a phone number. "I always have my phone" she touches her pockets. "Well almost always, I must have left it in the motel" she shakes her head and turns back to the man. "Whatever, look be careful and figure out why you have that thing, it's probably important" she turns in time to see Dean get into the impala and drive off. She sighs before turning around. "You wanna give me a ride?"
"C'mon" Ryan says walking back to his car. "But I drive" he says as he reaches the driver's side.
"You should ride with Jet" Katie says. "You'd crap your pants" she laughs before getting into the car.
Katie walks into the room to see Samuel already working on the cure. Sam stands by him as Dean strips off his jacket and sits on the bed.
"Who was your friend?" Dean asks grabbing his stomach and panting.
"The truth, I have no idea" Katie says walking over to him.
"Don't" Dean says. "Just stay away" he sees the hurt expression that crosses her face as she backs away and turns and walks over to where Samuel is working on the cure.
"Can I help?" she asked.
"I got it" he replies coldly not sparing her a glance.
"Right" Katie sighs before walking over to the window and looks out. She hears something vibrating and looks around the room and spots her cell phone. She walks over and grabs it. "Abby, look now's not a good time" the woman squealed and Katie pulled the phone from her ear. "Abby?"
"Oh my God" Abby said. "Where are you, get here now"
"I can't, not now Abby" Katie says. "I'll swing by after things settle here ok?"
"Ok, but get here asap" Abby replies with another squeal before hanging up the phone. Katie looks at the phone before shaking her head.
"Sam, I can't hear you - your blood is so frickin' loud, okay? Just - just back off." Katie turns to see Samuel pouring the cure into a coffee mug. " All right, gimme the damn cure." The old hunter hands him the mug. "L'chaim..." Dean says before looking over to Katie who moves closer as he chugs the drink. They watch as nothing happens. "I don't think-" he suddenly spins around and vomits into the waste basket. Katie sees blood and moves to go to him but Samuel grabs her.
"Is it working?" Sam asks.
"Either that or he's dying" Samuel replies. Katie snatches from his grasp. She quickly moves to catch Dean as he falls to the floor. His weight is a bit heavy and she slides a bit so his head rests in her lap. She see Sam take a step.
"Sam, don't!" Katie says looking over to him. "Don't touch him" she looks back down to Dean noticing his blood shot eyes when her head suddenly begins spinning. She blinks a bit bringing a hand to her head closing her eyes. Suddenly images start flashing before her eyes.
She sees Dean in the warehouse and then the scene changes and she sees Dean breaking the lamp in the motel. Everything is moving so quickly as it moves to the next scene. Then it slows down and she's in the alley. She see Sam fighting the vampire from the warehouse. It's moving backwards. The vampires moves and smears blood over Dean's lips, but Sam is there watching, not doing anything. Katie's eyes bore into Sam when a slight smirk crosses the youngest Winchester's lips as he watches Dean being turned.
Both of their eyes fly open at the same time. They immediately look to each other. They break the contact when they look up to see Samuel and Sam rushing over to help them up. Katie and Dean both eye Sam, neither one of them believing what they just saw.
"I'm gonna get cleaned up" Dean says. He looks over to Katie who just nods before watching him disappear into the bathroom.
"I'm going to" she clears her throat. She's angry and she can't believe what she just saw, she looks up to see Sam staring back to her. "gonna go outside and get some air" she grabs her jacket and makes her way outside. Once outside Katie walks over to impala and place her hand on the hood closing her eyes and takes a deep breath.
"What about the boy?"
She opens her eyes and she sitting across from Death.
"I'm looking into who brought him back" She replies.
"You know who brought him back" Death replies. "And you know why?"
"Well it's one big conspiracy after the other huh?" She says. "Fine I know"
"What are you going to do?" Death asks again.
"I think this time I will not get involved" She replied. "They want to run things, I'm gonna let them, they'll crumble" she stands to her feet. "As for Sam, I'm going to let my girl take care of it"
"You think she can?" Death asks. "You and I both know what's coming may be too much even for her"
"You still can't see what I see" She says. "It's in her blood. She will not disappoint me"
Katie felt a hand touch her shoulder and she opened her eyes to see to hood of the impala. She turned to see Dean standing behind her.
"You saw it didn't you?" Dean asks and Katie glances up to the window to see Sam looking down to them. Dean follows her eyes to his brother.
"Yeah, I did" she says turning back to Dean. "That's not all I saw" Dean turns back to her. "There is a lot I have to figure out, because right now nothing is making sense"
"Tell me about it" Dean sighs. "Look, about what I said before-"
"Dean, look I get it" Katie says. "You're still angry and I understand"
"Of course I'm angry" Dean replies. "But I shouldn't have taken it out on you like that"
"Well I'm the one you're angry with, so it's only natural you take it out on me" Katie says. "Why do you think I'm keeping my distance Dean?" she runs a hand through her hair. "You think I want to be away from you, because I don't. You need time" she sighs. "I know you just want to go back to how things were, how we were, but I know you're not ready for that. I can see it every time you look at me"
"I love you" Dean says bringing his hands to her shoulders.
"I've never doubted that Dean, but what I did isn't something you can just forget" Katie says. "I understand, so I'm going to give you time" she glances up to the window before moving in closer to Dean. "But you watch your back, especially around Sam, there's something not right and until we figure it out I don't want you to take any chances" Dean leans forward and places a kiss on her forehead. No matter how much she wants to just stay with him, she can't. She steps back. "You know how to call me" he nods and watch as she closes her eyes and focuses. "Am I gone yet?"
"Nope" Dean says cracking a smiles. "Maybe-" before he could finish his sentence she was gone. The smile falls and he turns to see Sam coming out of the building. He eyes his brother as walked over to the car.
Katie appears in Abby's lab, this time on her feet. It's a step up. Maybe whatever bug she's caught is finally leaving her system.
"Bee, you here!" she calls before hearing something fall over before the clomping of boots running toward her. She sees the huge smile on her friends face. "Why are you so happy?"
"I ran your blood" Abby says obviously trying to contain herself. "And I ran the regular tests for different contagions you could've picked and then I ran another test I knew was a long shot but your symptoms fit so I ran it anyway" the forensic science began babbling and Katie starting getting confused.
"Abby!" Katie said grabbing the woman's shoulders. "Slow down, what are you trying to say" Abby smiled and turned to her computer before typing a few keys and a new screen popped up on the plasma. Katie walked over to see and it was her test results. "Does that say what I think it says?" Abby walked up beside her the smile never wavering.
"Yes it does Kat" the Goth said before bending over to Katie's stomach. "Hey, in there I'm your aunty Abby!"
A/N: Yes it has finally happened! There's going to be a baby Winchester.
NEXT CHAPTER: Sometimes the truth doesn't set you free, it just sucks.