Kat and Dean walked slowly through the Old North cemetery; it was the dead of night and they were searching for the unmarked grave of Jacob Karns A.K.A the hook man.
"This is unusual, I mean a sprit latching onto a person and feeding of their emotions?" Kat held Dean's hand as he guided the way with a flashlight.
"Well we haven't got any better ideas so it's worth a try right?" Dean stopped and pointed the flashlight at a tombstone.
"I suppose so" Kat moved closer to view the stone. "Bingo" The cross symbol that they had previously associated with Jacob was situated on the stone.
"Babe will you hold the torch an I'll start digging" He handed her the torch and took his jacket off. Kat slipped it around her shoulders and took a seat on the nearby bench.
"You feeling ok?" He started to dig.
"Yeah I'm fine" She sounded a little shocked actually as her cuts and bruises had healed already.
"Good, I swear you nearly gave me a heart attack" He attempted to add a tone of jesting into the words to mask how true they were.
Dean walked into the motel room they had been staying in whilst assisting Rebecca in clearing her brother's name.
"Kitkat! Babe?" He looked around the apartment. "Baby where are you?" He walked over to the bathroom and knocked the door. "Kat! You in there?" No answer. He took his phone out of his pocket; no missed calls or text. He dialled her number and the sound of Dude looks like a lady blasted from underneath the double bed. He bent down to pick it up and then he saw it. Her silver flick knife. Her uncle had given her that on the day of her first hunt; there is no way she would leave that lying around. As he pulled it from the darkness of the underside of the bed his face twisted into horror. Blood. "Shit!" He dialled Sam's number frantically almost dropping the phone. "Sam it's took Kat ... well she's not here and there's blood and-" He took a huge intake of breath. "Sam we gotta find her!" He hung up and angrily swiped his arm along the coffee table knocking the vase and ashtray onto the floor.
The Impala speed down the empty roads, the engines purrs filling the otherwise silent streets. Dean sat in the passenger seat with his head in his hands.
"Dean she's a hunter, she's smart, she'll be fine" Sam's smile was filled with certainty. He never really liked any of the women Dean associated with before but Kat was different; he knew that they had a lot in common. They had both lost people close to them and he could talk to her about things he could never tell Dean.
"It's my fault, he's walking around with my face ... if anything happens to her-" He shut his eyes tight.
"Dean, she's an amazing hunter, she could teach us a thing or two and that's saying something. Kat's specialty is vampires; vampires she's not gonna go down to a thing that's likes to play dress up ok?" Sam shouted the 'ok' to emphasise his point.
"If she ... if – I don't think I'll be able to forgive myself" He punched the dash board.
"You love her don't you?" Sam smiled excitedly.
"Look we don't have time for this Sam we gotta find her"
"Right, time to torch the sucker" Kat pulled an old silver lighter from her pocket. The Aerosmith logo filled the base; her uncle had got it for her. She didn't smoke but in this job it always comes in handy. Dean emerged from the grave and handed her a branch that lay on the ground. She lit the top of it and threw it into the open coffin. Jacob's body erupted in flames.
"Well I don't know about you but I'm starving?" Dean put his arm around Kat's shoulder.
"Yeah I could eat" She smiled and they began to walk back to the Impala. Kat's phone began to ring. "Hey Sammy ... we'll be right there" She hung up and joined Dean in the car. "It's Sam, the reverent he's been attacked by the hook man"
They arrived at the hospital and received directions to reverends room. They were stopped by two officers.
"It's alright were with him, he's my brother" Dean pointed at Sam. "Hey! Brother!" Sam turned from his conversation with the sheriff. Dean smiled and waved at him. Kat winked.
"Let them through" The sheriff gestured to his officers and the moved out of their way.
"Thanks boys" Kat smiled at them. "Sammy you ok?" Kat and Dean approached him.
"Yeah" He nodded and smiled weakly.
"What the hell happened?" Dean raised his eyebrows at Sam.
"Hook man" Sam looked around to make sure there were no innocent ears.
"You saw him?" Kat questioned.
"Damn right. Why didn't you torch the bones?" Sam snapped mainly at Dean but Kat wasn't going to let him off easy this time.
"We did, so are you sure you got the information right?" Kat's tone was harsh but nowhere near as bad as Dean's would have been if she didn't get in first.
"It sure as hell looked like him. And that's not all. I don't think the spirit is latching on to the reverend" His tone had mellowed but it was obvious he had a little thing for the reverends daughter Lori.
"Well, yeah, the guy wouldn't send the Hook Man after himself" Dean sat down on one of the many brown plastic chairs that lined the pure white hallway.
"I think it's latching onto Lori" Kat looked up at Sam.
"Yeah me too, last night she found out her father is having an affair with a married woman" Sam sighed.
"So what?" Dean stood up and walked over to the vending machine.
"So she's upset about it. She's upset about the immorality of it. She told me she was raised to believe that if you do something wrong, you get punished"
"Ok, so she's conflicted. And the spirit of Preacher Karns is latching on to repress the emotions he's doing the punishing for her" Kat caught the chocolate bar that Dean had just purchased for her. She smiled at herself at the amazing reflexes she had just demonstrated; even Sam and Dean gave a look of admiration. "Rich comes on too strong, Taylor tries to make her into a party girl, Dad has an affair" She pulled open the wrapper and stuffed it into her pocket. "Thank you" She smiled at Dean.
"Remind me not to piss this girl off. But we burned those bones; I buried them in salt why didn't that stop him?" Dean began to stuff the remained of his own chocolate into his mouth.
"Sweetie chew your food it's unattractive" Kat stuck her tongue out at him.
"Yeah well I don't complain when I have to watch you putting your contact lenses in do I?"
"What-?"
"It's weird, touching your eyes, it's not natural babe" He shivered allowing her to see how much the thought of touching your eye freaks him out.
"Oh ok, I'll just walk around blind to make you feel better" she sarcastically replied whilst moving closer to him. He grabbed her around the waist and began to tickle her.
"Dean get off!" She laughed and struggled against his playful antics.
"Guys can we save the domestics till later?" Sam's words cause them to stop dead; Dean lowered her to the ground and she stopped laughing.
"You guys must have missed something" He threw himself down on the chair. Kat and Dean exchanged the look like two naughty school children waiting outside the head teacher's office. They both knew this was about Lori.
"No. I burned everything in that coffin" As soon as the words left Dean's mouth Kat realised.
"Babe the hook" She turned to him.
They sat in the library, Kat and Dean browsed the shelves. By browsing they were really hiding amongst the books waiting for Sam to do the hard work.
"Babe I'm sorry for the way Sam spoke to you earlier, I'll have a word with him. He can take it out on me"
"Dean he's upset; Lori is the first person he's ... you know since Jess. He's probably just feeling guilty"
"Guilty?" Dean did not know what she did. Sam had the chance to save Jess but didn't take it because the thought of confronting his past was too much for him to handle.
"Dean, Sam he, he's going through some things he needs his brother" Kat scanned the books with her finger.
"What? Do you know something I don't?" Dean took her hand from the book and turned her to face him. "Babe is there something I should know?" He looked into her eyes; he could always tell if she was lying.
"It's not my place to tell you ... but I'm sure than when he is ready to tell you he will" Kat wrapped her arms around his neck. "He needs you sweetie"
"Yeah well I-" He wanted to say "I need you" but the risk of losing another loved one was holding him back.
"Guys I – am I interrupted something?" Sam looked away embarrassed as Kat and Dean separated.
"No, no we were just ... what's up?" Dean placed his hand on Kat's back as they moved closer to Sam.
"The hook was melted down into something else" Kat and Dean raised his eyebrows as if to indicate they are listening and want to know the rest of the sentence but he just looked at them; blank.
"Into what sweetie?"
"I don't know" He sounded defeated.
"Well then there's only one thing for it" Dean smiled.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking sweetie?" Kat turned to Dean with a huge smirk on her face.
"Well babe if it involves breaking into the church and burning everything that's silver then yes" He returned her smirk.
"Destruction of property, we haven't done that I a while" Kat laughed.
"Right that's the last of it" Kat threw the remaining silver into the roaring fire.
"Come on let's go find lover boy" Her and Dean ran up the stairs to locate Sam and Lori. The sound of crashing and screaming filled the church.
"Get down!" Kat shot the Hook man just as he was about to attack Sam. Dean ran over and helped Lori up, he noticed her chain.
"Lori that cross where did you get it?" He looked over to Kat; she had her shotgun at the ready.
"My father gave it to me" she gripped the chain.
"Where'd your dad get it?" She looked up at Sam.
"He said it was a church heirloom, he gave it to me when I started school" Sam ripped it from her neck and threw it to Kat.
"Dean" She threw the shotgun to him and began to run back to the basement. The hook man began to follow scraping the walls as he did.
"Dude that girl can run" Sam stood nursing his injured shoulder.
"Yeah she is fast" Dean shouted from down the corridor as he was in pursuit of the Hook man. Kat kicked the doors open and threw the cross into the fire. The hook man began to wither and melt.
Kat sat in the Impala, Dean was being interviewed by the sheriff and Sam was talking to Lori. Dean walked over and joined her in the front of the car.
"You alright?" He adjusted the mirror and looked at Sam and Lori.
"Yeah you?" Kat turned to see what he was looking at.
"Yeah I'm just wondering if he's gonna be" He gestured to Sam.
"Hey, he'll be fine; he's got us hasn't he?" She smiled as he put his arm around her and pulled her closer.
"Yeah he has" He kissed her forehead.
"We put the fun in dysfunctional"
