AN: So I was woken up at 2:30 this morning by my muse banging me over the head with a couple little scenes. When I was finished typing that out I wasn't all that tired so I started typing out the rest of the previous chapter, sorry for the wait. I think i'm also going to post that extra little couple of scenes as a seperate story so be looking for that a little later. Everything will be explained in the Authour's Note before it so make sure you read that first.
but for now, ON WITH THE STORY!
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Provenance Part 2
Sam had only made it to the end of the parking lot before he heard a door slamming and the echoes of shoes slapping down onto the pavement.
"Sam, wait." he heard Jess call, he just ignored her, until she was right in front of him, blocking his path. "Sam please. I'm sorry. Okay? I shouldn't have thought you would do anything. I should have trusted you. I will trust you."
Sam stared down at her for a moment trying to decide if she was telling the truth. "Please Sam." She pushed when he didn't say anything. "It's just, ever since we left Palo Alto it's been one crazy thing after another and I don't know..." She threw her hands up and stepped back, biting her lip. "I just feel like, I'm loosing you or something. It may not be intentional but one day, I will loose you. And it's just freaking me out a little." Jess let a few tears fall down her face before she hastily wiped them away, like she was trying to hide them. Add a little sniff at the end and she had Sam in her back pocket again.
Sam reached forward a pulled his girlfriend into his chest, and just held her there. Nothing was said, he just held her while his mind spun. Jess doesn't want to hunt anymore, the day that she gives him an untimatum was fast approaching and he knew that now. The question was...What would his answer be?
Could he give up hunting, his brother, and now someone who was like a sister to him, all for Jess? Could he let go of that picture of his future, that made him feel loved and wanted, and trade it for one that he wasn't even sure he wanted anymore? He wasn't sure about his answer anymore.
When Sam and Jess got back to the room, Kayden was still going through all the papers layed out on the table, she looked up when they walked in.
"Hey, I think I found something," She told them.
"Where's Dean?" Jess asked politly, which was a shock for Kayden. Maybe she had finally said the right thing to get the blonde off her back.
"Right here." Dean said, walking out of the bathroom. "What do ya got?" he asked, not looking directly at Kayden.
Kayden handed Dean some of the papers that she was comparing, and he read out loud. "The portrait of Isaiah Merchant's family, painted 1910."
"Now, compare the names of the owners, with your dad's journal." Kayden said sliding the leather bound book to Dean.
Sam picked up the journal as Dean read out the names of the previouse owners.
"First perchased in 1912 to Peter Simms..." Dean read off from the provenance.
"Peter Simms murdered in 1912." Sam finished from the journal.
"Same thing in 1945, and 1970." Kayden confirmed. "Then stored, until it was donated to a charity auction last month. Which is where the Telesca's bought it."
"So what do you think?" Sam asked. "It's haunted, or cursed?"
Dean thought about it for a minute, then shrugged. "Either way, it's toast." and he stood up to leave, grabbing his coat. "Sam and I will go torch it now, we'll leave in the morning." and he walked out the door without another word.
When the brothers were gone, Jess spun to face Kayden and by the smug look on her face, Kayden knew she had been wrong about finally getting through to Jess.
"You fucked up big time didn't you?" Jess sneered. "Dean wouldn't even look at you would he?" Once Sam finds out that you know exactly how his mom died and you used it to scare his girlfriend away, he won't want you around either." Kayden's head popped up at that but she still didn't say anything. "Oh yeah. Sam will believe me especially when Dean confirms it. If I were you, I'd just pack up and leave before they come back, less painful that way." Jess laughed a little and headed out the door, leaving Kayden alone with her thoughts.
When Sam and Dean arrived back it was to an almost empty room. The only thing there, was a note sitting on the table next to the neatly stacked provenances. Sam pulled out his phone and called Jess while Dean read the note with a solemn look on his face.
Jess was fine, she was at the diner having dinner. He wasn't fooled by her innocence in the whole situation in the whole thing, but he didn't have any proof and she would you just deny it. When he hung up, Dean handed him the note.
To Dean and Sam,
I'm so sorry, for everything. Especially for what I said Dean. That was stupid. Anyway, the picture isn't destroyed. There's something else tying the little girl here. I'm not sure but I think it's the girl's doll. Pretty sure it's in the Merchant's family tomb. I'm sorry again.
Kayden
"So she thinks it's the girl that's killing people, not Isaiah." Dean asked, wanting to focus on the hunt and keep Sam from asking the question he really didn't want to answer.
"Sometimes, dolls like that would be would made with the child's own hair. That would count as remains if it really is the girl haunting the picture." Sam shrugged.
"Well, let's go find out where the Merchant family is buried." Dean said, starting towards the door.
"Dean wait. The library is closed right now. And besides, don't you want to look for Kayden?" Sam asked, he figured his brother would be worried about her.
Dean only shrugged and sat down on the bed closest to the door and started taking off his boots. "Kayden's a big girl, Sam. If she doesn't want to be here, I'm not gonna force her to stay."
Sam stared at his older brother incredulously." What happened between you two? What does she mean that she's sorry for what she said. "Sam waved the note through the air. "What did she say, Dean?"
Dean bit his lower lip and focused on the ground. In all honesty, he hadn't been that mad at her. Just shocked and slightly revolted that the girl could explain in detail how his mother had died. And who wouldn't be? He had figured that Kayden most likely knew how his mom died from the show, he just hadn't expected to be slapped in the face with it, without any warning.
After Jess had left he had sat there stunned, to shocked to move. But when Kayden turned to him looking horror struck, and about to apologize he shot up and shut himself in the bathroom he was too ashamed at the way he had acted to even look Kayden in the eye when he came back into the room.
Now, she had obviously taken that the wrong way, but what was he going to do now? He could go after her and explain everything in one big chick-flick moment. He shuddered at the thought. Or he cold let her go, he knew she was heading to Bobby's, he was the only other person she knew in this world. Maybe he could give Bobby a head's up. But if he let her go, she could be safe, she didn't have to tag along in the Winchester's twisted and fucked up lives.
"Dean!" Sam yelled, making his brother jump. "What did she say?" the younger Winchester asked again.
"Nothing. It's fine Sam. Just let her go. I'll give Bobby a call in the morning for a head's up."
"Bullshit, Dean. What the hell, if this is about you being afraid of commitment then I gotta tell you, you are the dumbest person I've ever met!" Sam said, getting angry.
"Excuse me?" Dean said. When the hell did his commitment issues get brought into this?
"What the hell is wrong with you? I thought you would have realized she's the best thing that could happen to you before you blew it all to hell, but you just can't help yourself can you? Do you want to be miserable?"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Dean said, throwing his hands up. "What the hell are you talking about?"
"Oh, come on, Dean. I'm not stupid ya know. I know you've got feelings for Kayden. Everyone can see it. Except maybe her." Sam added after thinking about it.
"How in the hell would you come up with that?" Dean asked.
"So you're saying I'm imagining things?" Sam asked sarcastically.
"That or on something. Sam, now many times have I told you, just say no." Dean joked.
"Ha, ha, Dean. I'm serious." Sam deadpanned.
"Me too. Sam, I don't have feelings for Kayden." Dean insisted.
"Yeah, whatever." Sam rolled his eyes, still not believing it. "Then what did she say that would have you not caring about her?"
"I care about her Sam. I just am having a little faith in her that's all." Dean sighed.
"Whatever, I'm going to bed." Sam said storming into the bathroom to change. Right before he shut the door, he turned around to glare at his brother. "Call Bobby now. If anything happens to Kayden because you're to stubborn. I'll kill you."
Dean raised his eyebrows at the threat but Sam just shut the door, leaving Dean to wonder when Sam had grown so close to Kayden.
Taking Sam's advice, he pulled his phone out and dialed Bobby's number.
The old man picked up on the third ring. "What have you idjits stepped in now?"
"What makes you think we're in trouble?" Dean asked, a little offended.
"Let's see." Bobby pretended to think. "Your last name is Winchester and it's a Tuesday. That a good enough reason for ya?" Bobby gruffed. "So what's going on?"
"Well, Kayden left." Dean said,wanting to get this over quick. He knew Bobby was going to tear him a new one.
"She left?" Bobby growled.
"Yeah, she left a note saying she was sorry, and how to finish the hunt and was gone when Sam and I got back from torching a haunted painting." Dean said.
"Sorry? Sorry for what?" Bobby asked.
"I don't know." Dean lied.
"Yeah, and I'm Santa Clause. Boy you're a terrible liar. It's a wonder you haven't been arrested yet." Bobby snapped. "If anything happens to her, I'm gonna have your ass you hear me?"
"Why is it that everyone thinks I'm to blame for her leaving? Kayden's a big girl, she can go where ever she wants." Dean said, although he knew why everyone was blaming him.
"She was your responsibility!" Bobby yelled. "Don't give me that crap. You know exactly why she left and you're just too proud to go after her."
Finally Dean snapped. "Did anyone ever think that maybe she's safer away from me?" He exploded, and Sam heard him in the bathroom. He came out to see his brother facing away from him. "She's the one that keeps saying that all these bad things are going to happen to us. So wouldn't that mean the best place for her is far away from all that?"
There was silence on the other end of the line followed with a sigh. "Boy, if you keep thinking that way, your whole life will be very depressing indeed." Bobby's voice was soft now. "I'll call you if she shows up here."
"Thanks Bobby." Dean said and hung up.
"Yeah," Sam snorted from the doorway of the bathroom. "You don't have feelings for her."
The next morning, Dean's phone woke him up and he mumbled a groggy "ello?" into it.
"She showed up a few hours ago." Bobby told him quietly and Dean sighed in relief. "She told me what happened." Dean stayed silent, not sure what to say. "She think's you're disgusted with her. That you hate her."
"Bobby, that's not it." Dean said suddenly, sitting up in bed. "I could never hate her."
"Then why don't you tell her that?" Bobby asked.
"You know why Bobby."
"Yeah, you think she's safer here." Dean could practically hear Bobby's eyes roll. "She showed up crying, Dean. How is that better for her." He was whisper yelling, like he didn't want someone to over hear. "You should tell her Dean."
"I'm sorry Bobby." Dean said, feeling horrible with every word Bobby said. She was crying? She thought he hated her? But this was better for her. He couldn't afford to be selfish if he wanted to keep her alive.
"Idjit." Bobby said it as a curse word before he hung up.
Dean sat up at the table drinking coffee and trying not to think about the guilty feeling in his stomach. When Sam and Jess woke up, Dean left to get breakfast while they showered and changed for the day.
After breakfast, Dean and Sam left Jess in the room, while they went to the library to figiure out where the Merchant family was buried.
"Kayden made it to Bobby's early this morning." Dean informed his brother.
"Good. So she's okay?" Sam asked relieved.
"Yeah, she got there in one piece." Dean said, avoiding the full truth.
Sam heard the double meaning in his brothers voice but chose to ignore it. He knew something had happened between the two but Dean wasn't going to tell him what it was. It was almost a sure thing that Kayden was upset and it was piratically confirmed with Dean's words. But for whatever reason his brother was going to ignore it.
It took the two hours and the help of a very enthusiastic librarian, but they finally found where the Merchant family's mausoleum was, and they waited until it got dark before they broke in and lit the dolls hair on fire to finally get rid of the ghost. And after that they were out of town headed to the next hunt. No one mentioned the empty seat in the back of the impala, or the direction their driver had, what he had thought was stealthily, driven them away from.
A day after the three of them left New York, Sam found an article on line, a man named Daniel Elkins, was found murdered in his home in Manning Colorado. The police were thinking bear attack, but had also found signs of a robbery.
When Dean recognized the name as a contact, in his father's journal with a Colorado area code, they decided it was worth checking out.
On their way to Colorado, while Jess was sleeping, Sam called Bobby's to check on Kayden. After talking and joking around with her, he reported that Kayden seemed to be doing fine, and had been helping Bobby with some research for another hunter who was visiting.
Dean appreciated Sam giving him the update without making him ask for it. Dean had been missing the bubbly and playful personality of the brunette more and more since they left New York, and by the look on his little brothers face after hanging up with her, Sam was too.
When they got to Colorado, Sam and Dean left Jess in the room, again, while they searched Elkins' place. While they were gone they met up with their father who explained that Elkins was killed by a group of vampires and that they took a special gun.
John explained that the colt was the only weapon on earth that could kill anything and that he was planning on using it to kill the yellow eyed demon.
When they finally killed the vampires and got the colt back, John caved and spilled all his information on the demon and the four of them started the hunt.
When Sam had another vision about the yellowed eyed demon burning a woman on the ceiling, John was pissed.
"Something like this starts happening to your brother, you pick up the phone and you call me." he shot at Dean's back.
"Call you?" Dean asked, setting the coffee pot down and turning to walk back to his father. "Are you kidding me? Dad I called you from Lawrence, Sam called you when I was dying. I mean getting you on the phone, I got a better chance at winning the lottery."
"You're right." John nodded, "Although I'm not real crazy about this new tone of yours, you're right. By the way, where's that other one?" He asked, looking around as if just realizing something. "Shouldn't there be four of you."
"Kayden's," Sam started, his gaze moved to his brother wondering if he was going to say something. When Dean turned around and headed back to the coffee pot. Sam continued, "Kayden's at Bobby's."
"What's she doing there?" John asked. "I thought she was attached to your hip or something."
"She's staying safe." Dean said, keeping his back to the room. And at his tone of voice, John knew something had happened between Kayden and Dean.
John may have been a hard ass and he may have been a tad obsessed after Mary died, and his boys may have suffered because of it, and he was sorry for that. It was his biggest regret in life. But he knew his son, and Dean was upset. Dean was more than upset, it was in his tone of voice. That was the tone his oldest used when he was sacrificing something he wanted for someone else's happiness. Like when they were kids and Dean would always give the toy at the bottom of the cereal box to Sammy, just so Sam would be happy. No one else would catch it, it was extremely subtle but John cold pick it out a mile away. And the fact that Dean was using that tone of voice over a girl, told him that Dean had fallen for her, and fallen hard.
And John knew that if Dean had fallen for this girl and thought she was safer away from him, there was nothing in the world that could change his mind. Dean would literally go through hell for anyone he cared for.
John was suddenly struck with a truck load of pride for his eldest. He had worried for years that Dean would always be a womanizer and never loved somebody like he had loved Mary. He had thought he wasn't capable, but right at that moment, he knew he had been dead wrong. His son was more than capable, he just never wanted to put anyone he loved in danger just because he loved them. And then he felt angry. Angry at himself for making his boys grow up that way.
When John had first met Kayden, he had hated her. He thought she was going to be a distraction. A distraction that cold get one or both of his boys killed. When she had stood up for his boys to him of all people, a little bit of that hate was replaced with just a little bit of respect. But he had been keeping in touch with Bobby and the way the old hunter told it, Kayden had saved his sons lives on more than one occasion. And it was because of that, all he had for her now was respect.
Looking at the tense set of Dean's shoulders, and hearing the hope in his voice when he said she was safe. John was wondering if this Kayden would finally be the one to tame Dean. To love him unconditionally with all his faults. To give him the look Mary had once upon a time, given him. That look he missed the most, that told him he could do no wrong in her eyes, she would always love him.
And suddenly he felt himself caring about what happened to this girl, if not for her own sake, then for his son.
He was brought out of his own thought when Sam's phone went off. Meg had called to taunt about Jim Murphy's death, make him listen to Caleb die and demand the cold.
John went off to Lincoln to try and trick Meg, while Sam and Dean went after the demon.
AN: Okay, so I've decided that I will post the 'extra fluff', as I'm calling it, on Friday when I post the next chapter, because if I give you the extra fluff now, I'll be giving away a plot twist to in the next chapter. I know it's a little bit anti climactic but I really wasn't planning on putting the full episodes into the story but I had a little extra room after writing this one out, so it just kinda fizzles out at the end. but other than that,
Please leave reviews, I'm gonna take a nap now
Nighty Night
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