Dean looked in the rear view mirror to see Ares fast asleep on the backseat, her bangs covering her face and a hand resting over her necklace. After they had gotten in the car Noah had explained she couldn't help them before because her powers are limited and once she appears she can't appear again for a few hours.

"Then how could you have appeared more than once today?" Dean had asked.

"Because it's only for a few minutes, and if the necklace is not on her my powers don't work. And it takes me a while to re-charge."

"So, just saving us took a lot juice outta yah?" Sam said and Noah nodded.

"Yes, that's why little Ares is always on the verge of passing out. But the passing out wouldn't happen if she would just take care of herself." Noah mumbled.

"What do you mean?"

"My strength is linked to Ares's. If she's sick my powers are affected, if I get hurt so does she. I thought she would start taking care of herself after meeting you guys but apparently it's not going to happen unless I tell you."

"Why what's wrong with her?"

"She hasn't been taking good care of herself, she's surviving on nothing but whiskey and cheap Bud Light." Noah said shaking her head.

"But we've been feeding her-" Sam began but Noah shook her head again.

"You sure 'bout that Sam?" Sam's eyebrows scrunched together as he tried to remember if they ever saw her finish the food they gave her and Noah smirked when she saw it dawn on him. "I thought so. Listen, I can't hold on much longer so I can only tell you this. Make her eat and take good care of her."

Dean found it a bit weird because Noah looked at Sam as she said the last part and they watched as the necklace glowed and Ares became herself again, but she only had time to look and them and say

"Did a rabid cat attack you?" before passing out and falling asleep.

"Dean eyes on the road!" Sam said and Dean quickly yanked at the steering wheel, righting the car on the correct lane. "Dude are you alright?"

"Yeah I'm fine Sammy." he looked into the rear view mirror again before looking back to the road. He tapped his thumb on the steering wheel for a moment before speaking again. "Hey there's something we need to talk about."

Sam didn't say anything, he already knew Dean was going to bring it up sooner or later.

"Did something actually happened between the two of you back there?" Dean asked.

"No Dean nothing happened. What Meg said was true but-"

"So you were being a pervert-"

"No I wasn't-look Ares and I only pretended to make out so we wouldn't get caught surveying Meg."

"And the second time?" Dean asked. "I heard it happened twice."

"We just kept it going because Meg had gone out of her apartment, we stopped after we saw she wasn't going to see us before we got out of the car and follow her."

"So you two didn't..." Dean said then nodding towards the backseat. "you know have some-"

"Noo!" Sam said with a glare. "Dean seriously?"

"So not in my car?"

"No! Not in your car or anywhere else. Dean, nothing happened it was just an act!"

"Okay, okay loosen up your panties man. Just making sure."

"So where to now?" Sam asked.

"Well there's a motel about two minutes away we can get two rooms and lick our wounds. And let Ares get some more rest."

They got to a three star motel and rented two rooms. Then Sam carried Ares out of the car and to the other bedroom they'd rented for her. Sam placed her on the bed and cleaned her wounds to which he was surprised were almost healed. He looked at her sleeping face and remembered when she had kissed him, placing her hands all over his body-

What am I doing? Sam thought. I can't...no it's impossible. He got up from the bed and left to his room, he saw Dean on the TV with a bag of popcorn. His wounds already taken care of.

"Hey Sammy, how's Ares?"

"She's fine. I took care of her wounds." Sam said as he took a beer from the fridge.

"Tomorrow we have to call dad, make sure he's okay."

"Dean he never answers his phone the only thing you'll be able to do is leave him a voice mail." Sam said.

"Well it never hurts to try." Dean said as he turned off the TV and headed to the restroom. "Ima take a shower, get all this blood off. Then I'm off to wonderland." Sam rolled his eyes and laid on his bed as he began to take care of his wounds. By the time Dean had gotten out and dressed Sam was already fast asleep. He looked at his brother and thought back to the Deiva attacking and finally being able to see their dad again after so long. They would've not gotten out of there alive if it hadn't been for Ares and Noah. But there was something that irked him, their father had seen Ares-who was Noah at the the time- and hadn't said anything, not even acted surprised by what he saw. Dean wanted to know why, he could call John but it was far too late for that but he would call their father the moment he woke up.


"Damn my head is pounding." Ares said as she stood up and ran a hand through her hair to get it off her face. She remembered the warehouse, Meg flying out the window, the attack by the Deiva. "Sam and Dean-"

Relax sugar they're fine. Ares jumped and looked around the room and finally saw a mirror on her left and saw Noah looking back at her. I took over you and got rid of the Deiva with enough time to escape.

"They're alright? What about John?"

Dean and I told him to leave, he's weakness are his sons and he can't think correctly if they're there.

"So he didn't react when he saw you?"

That's what bugs me, he didn't react to seeing me. It was as if he knew about me.

"Well he's not here right now so I can't exactly ask him. You need to stop taking over me like that I feel so weak-"

That's your fault! Cheap beer and the occasional doughnut isn't going to help dumbass.

"Whatever-"

No, not whatever I'm in here too and if I have to take over you to make you eat then I'll do it!

Ares rolled her eyes and checked her phone only to see she had well overslept past eleven.

"Damn it I really overslept this time." She said as she stood up and took a shower. When she came out she was dressed in a jean skirt with black shorts under and a green plad button up shirt with a black tank top under. She saw a folded paper on the floor close to the door and picked it up while still drying her hair with the towel.

We'd figured you would still be asleep so we didn't want to wake you. We'll be at the diner across the street if you're hungry.

-Sam

ps. If you don't see us there we'll be in our room. #10

By the way this message was written around ten so if you wake up after that then meet us in our room

-Dean

She read the last sentence and couldn't help but let out a small laugh and roll her eyes. Though she appreciated the fact that they had let her rest instead on knocking down her door. But it was probably more of Sam's idea then Dean's, he would have shaken her awake and made her go to breakfast with them. Ares slid on her boots and walked out of the room to theirs and knocked on the door. Sure enough Dean opened it and looked down at her with a smirk.

"Hey sleeping beauty who kissed you awake?" She rolled her eyes and walked past him to see Sam sitting on a chair with his lap top on the table. Sam looked up and greeted her with a smile.

"How'd you sleep?"

"Like a baby." She replied and took a seat across from him and Dean placed a take-out box in front of her.

"You haven't eaten so we got you this, it's still hot." Dean said. When she opened it she couldn't help a smirk; it was chocolate chip pancakes packed with whip cream and two cherries. Along with some eggs and bacon and then Dean handed her a foam cup that when she smelled it she realized it was hot chocolate. Instantly her stumach churned and grumbled in hunger, and it was so loud Sam and Dean heard it, making her cheeks flushed.

"I guess you're really hungry." Sam teased.

"Shut up...but this...this is the breakfast my mom made when we were ever at your place." Ares replied. "How-"

"We paid the waitress and cook some extra cash to make it for us." Dean said. "Now eat."

She didn't need to be told twice as she began to eat. When she was done she let out a satisfied sigh and patted her stomach.

"Now that is what I call breakfast."

"At least it was a decent breakfast." Dean said and Ares looked at him.

"What do you mean?" she asked wearily. Sam and Dean exchanged a look and Sam closed his lap top.

"You see Ares...Noah told us that you haven't been eating." Sam said slowly like a person trying to get close to an angry dog that might bite at any second.

"Oh did she?" she asked dangerously.

"Ares she told us that's why you're always close to passing out." Sam said. "Why? What's going on?"

"What? You think I have some sort of eating disorder?!" She snapped. "Because that's not it!"

"Then clarify this for us then." Dean said. "Because we're not letting you get up until you tell us."

Ares sighed and ran her hands through her hair and crossed them against her chest.

"After Amy died...well, once I became myself again I just couldn't bring myself to eat. I haven't had anytime to properly grieve my friend except for those few moments of drunkenness or whenever I'm alone. I just..."

"After everything that's happened you haven't had time to do anything but try to survive." Sam said. Ares nodded and Sam understood her perfectly, he had no time to grief for Jess after she died until a few weeks after her death when Dean had gone to a strip club. That had been the only time he had been alone and that was the night he had cried for Jess. Cried so hard that he hadn't realized Dean had returned early and heard him, Dean could have gone in but knew Sam needed to release all his sadness and had waited in the car until two in the morning when he knew Sam would have collapsed into sleep. This of course Dean had never told Sam and swore he would never tell him, so as he watched Ares he knew she hasn't had a good cry since Amy's death.

"Then you should cry." Dean said and Ares looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "It seems you need a good cry."

"What, you're going to make me watch the Titanic and hope I shed tears with a bucket of ice cream?" she asked incredulously. "No thanks I have my own methods of grieving."

"And that is?" Dean asked to which Ares replied with a smirk.


"This is your way of grieving?!" Dean yelled over the gun fire as Ares fired a revolver at the empty bottles and cans, knocking out every single one of them.

Ares stopped and emptied the gun barrel, answering as she loaded again.

"I'm not the type that cries Dean, and I can't exactly walk down the street and shoot what ever I want. So this is the next best thing, unless there's a carnival with shooting stands. Now those are a great stress reliever with stuffed animals as a bonus." She replied with a smile. Dean glanced at Sam who shrugged his shoulders.

"Hey, if it helps her it helps her." was his only reply as Ares raised the revolver and shot the second row she had made. When she finished she picked up all the bottles and placed them in a black plastic bag. When Sam and Dean gave her puzzled looks she smiled.

"I'm guessing you two never thought of recycling the bottles you two use? Not only are you saving the planet but you get free cash for it too." Once they found out where a recycling place was Ares turned it in a got cash for it though it wasn't much.

"If that's all you get then why bother?" Dean asked.

"Because when you're on a job and you don't feel like using the credit cards it always good to have some cash with you. Especially with fake credit cards."

"You know we could learn a thing or two from her." Sam whispered to Dean who rolled his eyes.

"So where to now? I really want to hunt something." Ares said.

"There's rumors about an avenging ghost a few miles from here." Dean suggested.

"Perfect, I'll get my stuff and wait in the car." she said walking in the direction of the motel. A few minutes later they were on the road until Dean's phone rang. He looked at it and passed it to Sam who frowned.

"What are these?" Sam asked and Ares looked over his shoulder.

"They look like coordinates." Ares said as Sam took out his lap top and searched it.

"Found it, it's in Fitchburg, Winsconsin." Sam replied. "Why would dad send us coordinates to here?"

"Maybe there's something there?" Dean said and Sam proceeded to check if there was something out of the ordinary.

"Well there's nothing weird going on. Why would dad send us there?"

"Maybe he's meeting us there."

"Yeah, cuz he's been so easy to find lately." Sam scoffed. After they had split up Sam and Dean have tried tracking him down again but with no luck.

"Why don't we just go and check it out Sam?" Ares said. "There must be a reason he sent the coordinates."

"You're taking his side?"

"No Sam all I'm saying is that we should check it out." Ares frowned.

"Okay then, Fitchburg it is." Dean said and took the next exit to the freeway. Soon they got to Fitchburg and parked by in front a park and Dean went to get coffee while Sam and Ares leaned against the impala. Sam looked at Ares and noticed she was playing with a ring on her middle finger. It looked like it was made of silver and had the engravings of J.C

"What are the initials for?" Sam asked and Ares then realized she was playing with the ring.

"James Connor." she replied.

"They guy we met?"

"Yeah,"

"How did you two break up? If you don't mind me asking."

"It had been two months after his mother's death." Ares began and she started playing with the ring again.

"You're leaving?" James replied in disbelief.

"Yes." Ares said with a sad smile.

"But what about us? You can stay while our fathers go hunting and-"

"James we can't, I still need to train and-"

"Is this just an excuse to break up-"

"Stop it that's not it James!" Ares replied. "It's just that I need to keep hunting and training to hunt down whatever killed my mother."

"We can do it together Ares. Maybe you can even help us track down the vamps that killed my mother."

"I'm afraid to say the murderer of our mothers are completely on different levels James. Mine was killed by a demon."

"Ares c'mon stay with me please." he said and kissed her but she pulled away.

"James...I'm not going to be a substitute for your mother."

"Ares that's not it!" he snapped

"Is it James?" she asked and James knew it was true because Ares seemed to fill the whole his mother had left with her death. But he didn't want to admit.

"Whatever! You know what, you can leave and never come back!" He yelled and gave his back to her while Ares stared at him shocked. "Have fun hunting the demon." Anger began to over take her and she grabbed a thin branch from the ground and proceeded to through it at the back of his head. It hit him with a satisfying wack and he turned with anger in his eyes as well.

"Well then go to hell James!" She screamed. "Go to hell and rot!"

"After that I packed my things and when my father returned we left." Ares said with a small smile. "And I didn't see him after that for the next six years."

Sam looked at her with sympathetic look. Ares saw that and lightly punched him on the shoulder.

"Don't give me that pity look Winchester, I don't take anyone's pity." Sam gave a small laugh and then looked forward to the playground and saw only one girl playing. Ares watched as his lips turned to a small frown and she followed his line of sight.

"What's wrong Sam?"

"That..."

"So the waitress thinks her neighbors might be up to something creepy but other than than nothing out of the ordinary he said and handed Ares and Sam their coffee.

"Dean what time is it?" Sam asked and Dean looked at his watch.

"Ten after four. Why?"

"What's wrong with this picture?" Sam nods to the playground and Dean follows.

"Shouldn't this place be crawling with kids?" Dean asks.

"My thoughts exactly." Ares said. "Excuse me." Ares said as she walked over to a mother who was watching her child play. "Sorry to interrupt, but where are all the other children?"

"Its flu season. Lately a lot of kids have been getting really sick so parents don't let their children play out side anymore."

"How many children have been getting sick?"

"A few, they're all in the hospital. Very bad condition, honey lets go home." the mother called and her daughter got down from the dome. Once they went to the hospital they were able to get some information on the sick kids. All six kids that were sick had gone into a coma so they were unable to interrogate them except for the father of a pair of girls with the younger one getting sick the night before.

"Did you leave the window open or anything like that?"

"No, I made sure it was locked after what happened with my older daughter." the father said with distress and Ares could see the man was on his last wits.

"Alright then, thank you for your time sir. We promise to look more into this and find a way to help your daughter and the other kids." Ares said and the man nodded thankfully.

"How are we going to find out about the kids getting sick now?" asked Dean

"Well think about it Dean, the father is not home right now because he's here with the girls." Ares said. A few minutes later they were in the girl's home and checked every single corner of the house until they got to the bedroom of the girls.

"Anything?" Dean asked.

"Nada." answered Ares. Then Sam looked at the window and tilted his head.

"Hey, didn't the dad say the window was closed?" they looked at the window and sure enough it was open and they headed to it. The moved the curtain and looked around it until Ares pointed at the lower part.

"Does that look familiar to you?" they looked to where her finger was and there was a large hand like print to it.

"Have you ever seen anything like it?" Sam asked.

"No." Ares answered. "But take a look at the wood...is it rotting?"

"What about you Dean, Dean?" Sam and Ares looked at him and they could see he was looking at that mark with a strange look.

"Hello? Earth to Dean!" Ares waved her hand in front of his face and that seemed to snap him out of it.

"huh? Oh, yeah...I have." he said. "Now lets go back to the car we need to find a place to stay."

Sam and Ares glanced at each other before following Dean to the car. By the time they found a motel it was getting dark and the sun was setting low on the horizon. They parked and they got out of the car while Dean went into the main house to ask for a room. Ares leaned against the hood of the car next to Sam and looked at the horizon.

"It looks beautiful." she said with a smile.

"It does," he replied and took this chance to glance at her. The light of the sun made her hair a brighter red and the orange glow of the sun made it look like there was fire in her eyes. Back in the house Dean was being attended by a ten year old while his little brother who looked about five was watching television.

"So what'll it be?"

"Give me two queens and one king." Dean said and the young boy look around Dean to Sam and Ares and the boy could see the way Sam was looking at Ares.

"You sure it's not one queen and one king?" the boy said and Dean turned to see what the boy was seeing, a second later a woman came in and a woman came in with a small bag of groceries.

"Honey go inside and serve your brother some dinner."

"I'm with a client."

"Go," the mom said and the kid rolled his eyes. "So what will it be?"

"Two queens and a King." he said and watched as the older boy called his brother to eat and he remembered when his father had left him alone with Sam and he had had to serve him dinner.

"Here you go." the woman said as she handed him back the credit card. Dean snapped out of his memory and smiled as he took the credit card back.

Once they were settled in Ares took a shower, when she came out she wore black pajama bottoms that hugged her legs and loose fitted t-shirt, she was drying her damp hair with a towel when there was a knock on her door. She grabbed her knife and opened the door an inch, it was Sam.

"Sam? What's wrong did you guys find something?" Ares asked as she let him in and placed the knife on the dresser.

"Its a Streigah,"

"A what?"

"Shtriga, it's a being that feeds off the souls of people to stay young, it prefers the young because their soul is the purest."

"That is...disturbing." she said as she placed the towel on a chair and leaned against the table. "So how did you guys find out?"

"Dean said we were on a hunt like this before but I must've been really young because I can't remember. And get this, dad hunted the thing but it escaped."

"Escaped? No, John Winchester let it go?"

"Dean said dad lost it's tracks, but I have a feeling there's more to this." Sam said.

"There must be," she said. "Did he say how it can be killed?"

"Silver bullets but we have to catch it while its feeding, that's the only time it's vulnerable."

"I see." Ares said as she licked her lips. "Well I guess we can start on it bright and early tomorrow morning." she said and then looked at Sam who was looking thoughtful.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

"We need to talk about what happened." Sam said and Ares knew immediately what he was talking about.

"No, absolutely not." she said and turned to walk to her bed.

"Something happened back there you can't say you didn't feel it too."

"Sam enough," she turned and realized he had been right behind her so now they were standing so close to each other they could kiss if he so much as moved an inch. There were times when Ares forgot how tall he was, and seeing him at his full 6'4 made her feel relatively small since she was 5'6. She stared wide eyed at him, his eyes were staring at her so intensely it made her arms raise goosebumps against her skin.

"I can't help myself, Ares." he said in a low voice. "I just can't."

He slowly brought his arms to her wrist and up to her shoulders slowly while Ares continued to stay motionless but she had closed her eyes as she tried to battle against her own desire.

"Sam..." she said barely able to utter a single word. "Please...stop..."

Sam's hands stopped at the back of her head and neck and his forehead was against hers.

"We can't..."

"Why not?"

"I..." she opened her eyes halfway and could see the fire in his eyes, she glanced down at his soft lips and she bit her bottom lip. "This...won't be...a good idea."

"I don't care." he replied and pressed his lips against hers, her hands fisted against the sides of his shirt and tried to push him off but he grabbed her arms and pulled her close to him.

Noah! A little help here!

But you're enjoying this~Noah responded in a singsong voice Why don't you just give in? It's better to give in than to deny it. Or you'll explode.

By now Sam had her pinned against the wall and was still kissing her while her hands were still gripping his shirt but her lips were moving on its own accord, kissing him back slowly and sensually. She felt her heart beating so hard against her chest she prayed that Sam wouldn't hear it. Sam felt her hands beginning to loosen and he smiled against the kiss letting his hands travel to her wrist and bring them to his neck. Ares's hands took hold of his hair and tilted her head to make the kiss deeper. Their breath were beginning to come out in short pants and Sam's hands went around her thighs and lift her up and press her against the wall making her legs wrap around his waist. Sam could feel her heart beating hard against her chest, followed by a barely contained moan as he pressed his lips against her neck. He's been wanting to do this ever since Illinois and he hadn't been able to keep her off his mind either, constantly thinking about her and glancing at her when he thought she wasn't looking. She tugged hard at his shirt and Sam broke the kiss so to pull the shirt over his head and went back to kissing her as she slowly ran her hands against his chest.

"Sam..."she whispered against the kiss and then let out a small moan as he kissed her between her shoulder and neck. He took hold of her legs again and began to walk towards the bed and once there he let her down slowly and then raised his hands to the waist band of her pajamas and started to slowly pull them down. He saw her black boxer shorts and smirked.

"You really never were one to wear panties." he joked as he kissed her hip bone making her hitch her breath. She didn't reply, merely sent a small glare his way and then tried to contain a moan as Sam raised her shirt and kissed her stomach while at the same time kicking off his shoes. He raised her shirt a bit more and next thing he knew he was on his back with Ares kissing him hard and then began to undo his pants.

Outside her room Dean had been ready to knock because Sam had taken too long when he had heard Ares's moans. At first he had been unsure about what he had heard until he had placed his ear against the door and heard the moans again. He straightened up and shook his head with a smirk.

I knew it was a matter of time before those two went at it. He shook his head again and with a devious smirk he left, getting ready for all the witty retorts he was going to make when he saw the two love birds tomorrow morning.

By now Sam and Ares's clothes were all around the bed, Ares was sitting between Sam's legs and her own legs around his waist and the bed sheets pooled around their waists. One of Sam's hands was around her waist and the other on the back of her head entwined in her hair as he kissed the crook of her neck and Ares's hands grabbing hold of his hair. The pleasure was sensual and burning in their veins like wild fire, Sam knew he wasn't going to last much longer and he knew the was Ares was holding tightly to his hair she was pretty close as well. Sam twisted his body and until he was on top of her with her legs high on his waist kissing her softly as speared her slow and deeply. She arched her back, pressing her chest against his, her face in a grimace of pleasure and Sam watched as she became undone. Her nails raked against his back and Sam bit her shoulder and a growl rose in his throat as he became undone as well. They waited until their heart rate had returned to their normal level before Sam rolled next to her. Ares sighed and rolled on her side, placing a hand around his waist as she placed her head on Sam's shoulder.

"And you wanted to stop." he said.

"Don't push it Winchester." she smiled as he kissed her forehead. "What about Dean? I'm sure by tomorrow I'll have to hear his little jokes about this."

"Lets worry about that later." he said as he buried his face in hair and she noticed how his voice was sounded tired. She merely turned and kissed him softly on the lips before settling on his shoulder again and before long they were both fast asleep.


Here's a long chapter for taking so long to update. :) I promise the next chapter will be out sooner. See you soon. :D