The next morning, the three Winchester's sat at a booth in a place called Skinny's Diner, eating their breakfast before they hit the road. San and Dean had both ordered bacon, pancakes, eggs, and coffee. Addison wanted the waffles a la mode with chocolate milk.

"I think you need something a little more health, Bug." Sam told her.

"I can get what I want!" She snapped at him.

Sam was taken aback. It was the first time she had been actually rude to him, not just playing around. She had been being grouchy all morning.

"Okay, I just thought-."

"I don't care what you think!" She snapped again.

"I'll come back." The waitress said, hurrying away from devil child.

Dean gave his daughter a hard look. "Addison Skylar," He said. "I don't know what is wrong with you this morning, but you better appoligize to your Uncle and I mean now. He's just as much your boss as I am and you'll do as he says. If he says you're eating something healthy, that's what you're eating, you hear me?"

She looked down, scuffing her feet against the floor. "Yeah." She whispered. She looked at Sam. "Sorry, Uncle Sam."

"It's all right, Addie." He said, but he and Dean exchanged a Look. What was going on? Oh, they would find out soon enough.

A few hours later, Dean and Sam were discussing the new case and Addsion was alseep in the back. She let out a little whimper. Sam, who was driving, looked at her in the rearview mirror.

"What's wrong, Bug?" He asked.

"Stomach hurts." She said, clutching it.

"Are you gonna be sick?" Dean demanded. "Sam, pull over!"

She shook her head. "No, I'm not going to be sick. It just aches."

Her stomach pains came and went through the rest of the day. That night, they stopped at another motel. If the brothers were alone, they would drive straight through, but Sam didn't think that was good for Addison, so they stopped somewhere every night.

Dean and Sam were finishing carrying in their bags when a scream came from the bathroom. They both ran in. Addison was sitting on the toilet, looking at her panties. There were splotches of blood in the crotch area.

"I'm bleeding!" She said. She was so scared, she forgot to be embarassed that they were seing her like this.

Dean and Sam exchanged a look. Well, this certainly explained a lot.

"Am I going to die?" She asked.

"Oh, honey, no." Sam said gently. "Girls are suposed to bleed from...there."

"They are?" She sounded surprised and confused. "Oh."

"Why don't you get cleaned up?" Sam suggested. "And then we'll explain everything."

"Okay." She said.

Once they were out of the bathroom, Dean sighed. "Well, that explaine the mood swings and the stomach aches."

"Yeah." Sam opened his wallet and pulled out some bills. "You need to run down to that Convience store and get her some pads."

"You do it!" Dean pushed the money away.

Sam rolled his eyes. Trust his brother to act like an immature idiot when he needed him to be adult. "Look, either you go the stuff, or you can explain to her what's going on and how to use them."

"All right." Dean relented. "All right." He snatched the bills from Sam's hand. "Be back in a minute."

At the store, Dean just grabbed a bag of Kotex pads and threw them on the counter. "These are for my daughter." He explained. "She's twelve. Just got her first...one today."

"Hmm." The teenage girl behind the counter looked as if she couldn't care less. She just rang him up and handed him his bag.

By the time Dean got back to their room, Addison was sitting on their bed in her Jonas Brother's nightgown and he was talking quickly and quietly to her.

"So, this is supposed to happen?" She asked.

"Yep." Sam answered. "Totally normal. And these," He took the bag of pads from Dean. "These go in your panties, okay? To keep you from leaking everywhere."

"Gross." Dean said. Sam shot him a Look. "What? It is."

Addison went in the bathroom and closed the door. Why had no one ever told her about this period thing? She opened the bag and read the instructions, then did as they said. Okay, this felt more weird than the bra. Plus, it was super embarassing that Daddy and Uncle Sam knew she was bleeding down there. They would know every time, she reminded herself, they're the ones buying these stupid things! She sighed. Growing up sucked.

"Bug?" Uncle Sam was knocking lightly on the door. "You okay in there?"

"I'm fine." She opened the door.

"Here." Sam handed her two asprin. "Take these, they'll make your stomach feel better."

She swallowed them with a drink of Pepsi. "Can we order a pizza?" She asked.

"Yeah." Her dad said. He handed her the remote. "And you can pick what we watch tonight."

"Cool." She said, taking it. She settled on 'Smallville' while Sam ordered a large pepperoni pizza. "You think we'll get to Texas tomorrow?" She asked her dad.

"Probably." He answered.

"I've never been there." She told him.

"Really?"

"Nope."

"You'll like it." Dean told her. "Everything's bigger in Texas."

She rolled her eyes. "Daddy, you're so corny." She told him.

"Yeah, but that's why you love me the most." He said.

"I love you and Uncle Sam the same." She answered, resting her head against her uncle.

Sam was surprised. She had never told him that she loved him. "I love you too, Bug." He said, stroking her hair.

"Why do you call me Bug?" She asked.

He shrugged. "I don't know. You look like a girl who's nickname might be Bug, I guess."

She snuggled in between him and her dad. "Oh."


Author's Notes: For all those people who guess that Addison was getting ready to start her period, brava! This chapter isn't super long, but the next one will be, plus Dean's going on his first date since discovering he has a daughter. I think Addison is going to be very jealous...