A/N: I've appearently developed an obsession with biting in the last chapter. Well you wanted to know what goes down with my sweet little girls and their hunter boys, so here we go. Please keep all hands and feet inside the vehical at all times, and do not stand up until the ride comes to a complete stop.
Chapter Nine
"Drop the gun." Zack jabbed her in the head with the damn gun. Dean tossed the gun to the ground between them before stepping back hands in the air. "Good."
"Let her go." Dean commanded.
"I don't think you're in any place to be making demands." Zack ran the tip of the gun down the side of Autumn's face, over her neck, and followed the gentle curve around her breast. "I'll have fun with this one." he taunted.
"Like hell!" Autumn twisted trying to escape. Zack cocked the gun and returned it to her temple.
"Aut, don't." Dean instructed. Even in the dark she could see his worried eyes, she stopped struggling.
"That's my girl." Zack squeezed her. "This is the part where you start bargaining, and I threaten to kill her just for the fun of watching you squirm."
"Oh, God. You're joking right?" Autumn groaned. Dean looked down at his fallen brother, and pet then at his girl being held at gunpoint.
"Take me." he said simply. "Leave her, take me."
"Dean!" Autumn protested. Zack chuckled, amused by the quarrel starting.
"Autumn, you take care of Sammy and call Will."
"No, he can't do anything to me I've not already been through! Just let him take me."
"Aut, he could kill you."
"No shit Sherlock! He could kill you too." Autumn pleaded.
"Maybe I'll just kill you both." Zack quipped. Dean was more desperate now than ever.
"Don't take the girl."
"Aww how cute." Zack walked forward dragging Autumn with him. He kicked the gun in one direction and flung her in the other before grabbing hold of Dean. "You move and I'll kill him then the boy and dog, just for fun." he growled at Autumn she nodded fighting back tears. "Good, puppet." he smirked. "Come on Hero."
Autumn watched the shape shifter make off with Dean, and waited until she was sure he hadn't knocked Dean out and was coming back, before crawling over to Sam. She found his pulse with trembling fingers, it was a steady even beat. She moved to check her dog. He was alive, but that was all she could say for either of them. She lay her head on Sam's chest and cried. It had taken all of her self control not to cry when Dean was pulling his self sacrificing shit. She vowed to kick his ass into the next century when she found him.
After her good cry she pulled herself to her feet and tried to figure out how to get the man and dog out of the woods, without leaving either behind. Honestly, she wasn't sure she'd be able to find this spot again in the dark. Walking out on either creature was unacceptable. Autumn extracted her phone gathering mislaid weapons. There was one option. She found the newest entry to her phone book and dialed.
Aiden Cane turned up his beer and wished he had the gull to drink something stronger. The only time he tried anything stronger than a Budlight was at a frat party, and he didn't care to relive that night. The bartender, Lou, was a good man, never short of a kind word or pointless story that would pull his mind away from his aunt's condition. The woman who had raised him, when his own parents decided they didn't want him anymore, was dying and there was nothing they could do. She'd already had a transplant, twice. The first time her body rejected the donated organ. He twisted his bottle in his hands.
"You okay kid? I saw you leave with that red headed babe earlier, you have fun?" Lou asked a mischievous light in his eyes.
"Nah, she just asked me about her sister. We went out the other night and then her sister didn't come home." he shrugged before gulping down the rest of his beer. "What's the world coming to that a girl can't get justice without risking everything?"
"It won't last forever, Aiden. Nothing lasts forever." Lou poured drinks for a couple at the other end of the bar. Aiden dipped in and out of reality, not hearing his phone ring. "Kid, you gonna get that?" He jumped at the voice penetrating his thoughts.
"Yea. Yea." he dug out his phone. It was the girl's sister. "Hello?"
"Aiden, I need help, how fast can you get to the woods outside of town?"
"Ladies, I've got a surprise for you." Zack wrenched open the door and shoved Dean in the room. The women inside didn't react at all. No movement. He sighed pointed his gun at Dean. "Check them." he ordered. Dean Winchester was half of what he needed. The man pulled himself across the room to the blonde, Athena, Zack listened to his soft whisper not able to make heads or tails of any of it. "She alive."
"Yes."
"Check the other one." Sage, was about as ugly as a person can get before you pluck your own eyes out. He knew her story, the last hunter he'd tangoed with spilled the beans on the woman. Dean slid his fingers under the woman's chin waited a moment.
"She's alive too." Zack nodded.
"Good, I'll leave you alone." he turned on his heel. He was done with them for now.
As soon as the shape shifter was gone Dean punched the wall. The two women in the cell with him weren't in good shape. He didn't want to think about what they'd been through. It was a while before either woman stirred. Athena sat up with a jolt and through her arms around his neck hugging him weakly and kissing his cheek.
"You sorry bastard! I never thought I'd be so glad to see you." Dean laughed untangling himself from the younger woman.
"You're okay?" she shook her head and he saw her wince.
"Not even close." she muttered.
"For a rescue team you kids are doing a bang up job." Sage joked, only half the usual charm in her voice.
"He's not too good at his job, though." Athena mused. "If he were he'd use more than a crowbar."
"Your sister is worried sick about you." Dean told her.
"Yea, well now she knows how I feel every time she pulls this crap." Athena tried to sound light and careless but she denied by a coughing fit.
"How long she been doing that?" he asked Sage worriedly.
"Just since her last trip into the fun room." Sage answered, without giving actually giving a length of time.
"Will she be okay?"
"How the hell am I supposed to know?"
"I'll be fine, Deanie. I'll live." she paused a moment then gave a little giggle. "And if I don't I'll haunt your ass for getting captured instead of rescuing." Dean affectionately ruffled Athena's hair.
"Then you better not die, Barbie."
Aiden helped Autumn get both Sam and her dog into the Impala then drove her back to her motel room. He hovered after dragging Sam and John into the room. Autumn repeatedly dismissed him, finally giving up to do a home stitch job on Sam. Aiden sat on the bed she'd dumped John on and watched. He didn't talk he just watched.
"You can leave."
"He'll be okay?" she nodded stitching Sam's arm, where he'd received a decent gash. It was his only real wound, besides his head and she didn't know what was going on in there.
"Yea, he'll be good as new in a week when I take the stitches out."
"You really do this?"
"Put my boyfriend's little brother together after he gets beat up fighting for my sister? Yea."
"No, I meant this hunting things that shouldn't be." Autumn nodded concentrating on her work.
"Since I got out of college."
"You went to college and ended up here?" he laughed. I'm sorry I shouldn't have"
"No, don't worry about it. There was a lot more to it than it sounds." Autumn discarded his apology.
"Why did you call me?"
"My folks died when I was 14, and the boys Dad is out of touch. The only people who were available to help me out are a weeks drive away." she explained.
"How'd you know I'd come?" he asked. She stopped her work and turned around to look at him.
"You're aunt is sick." she smiled encouragingly at his confused look. "My mom had cancer. When she got sick I spent a lot of time trying to help everyone else. I thought, if I could help everyone else that God would cut me some slack and not take my mom."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be. Our scars define who we are. There's a story behind each and everyone of them, that makes us who we are."
"You'll be okay here alone? He won't come after you?" Autumn nodded.
"I'll be fine." He quickly embraced her.
"If you need me call."
"I won't need you."
"If you do." she shooed him out the door. She needed to finish cleaning up what remained of her hunting party, and call Will and John. She regretted calling John now. How was she supposed to tell him she'd lost his son.
A/N: I'm headed for bed. I'll get the next chapter out to you tomorrow. Leave me a a review.
