"Sam, maybe me and Bobby should do this alone" Dean said stepping in front of his little brother's access to the apartment building.
"What? Why?" Sam asked as Bobby stepped to flank Dean evidently choosing sides in the forming argument.
"It's a small apartment, me and Bobby should be enough. Besides you need to stay here and watch her" Dean indicated to Adrianne sitting morosely in the backseat of the Impala trying to hide the fact that she was watching them, "on second thought I could stay and watch her". He licked his lips for emphasis.
"Just go place the bags Dean" Sam huffed turning back around walking to the Impala.
Dean smiled at Sam's back; the kid was too easy to fool sometimes. Dean followed Bobby into the apartment building and up the stairs glad that his little brother was easy to fool sometimes. There was no way he could be a good big brother and let Sam into this apartment again. Especially to help kick holes in the wall and place hex bags; Sam had been obviously sadder, even if he tried to hide it, and Dean wasn't going to chance letting Sam be in the bedroom that Sam and Jess shared, the room where she burned. Bobby opened the door to the apartment and Dean followed in with shotgun and hex bags in hand.
Sam hopped into the passenger's side of the Impala and turned to face Adrianne who had given up all pretences and was nearly climbing out the car window to watch her apartment. Sam watched as she let out a whimper and her hands went into fists.
"Adrianne? Are you ok?" Sam asked
Adrianne turned her head to see Sam and he could see the worry lines on her forehead. "They won't break anything right? Like, they won't damage my apartment?"
"Uh...Bobby's very professional"
Adrianne turned to look at Sam, "Great, you're paying for the damages then right?"
"Yes" Sam sighed, guilt riddling his tone.
"What about mental damages?"
"What?"
"I...am very attached to my apartment, it would hurt me emotionally if it were damaged so I'm talking emotional reimbursement"
"That's extortion!" Sam exclaimed and Adrianne laughed.
Sam laughed back with her and felt the mood in the car lighten and Adrianne's eyes changed, she looked happier. Sam noticed the small painting stuffed next to Adrianne's bag on the floor of the Impala.
"Hey, Adrianne, can I ask you something?" Sam asked breathlessly after stopping laughing
"What's up Sam?" Adrianne smiled
"What's with the painting?" and with that the car's atmosphere was back to sombre.
Adrianne stopped laughing short and looked down at the painting, "Jess painted it for me when I was fifteen, just before she died"
"Oh" was all Sam said and the conversation died for about ten minutes. Sam went to cleaning his nails and Adrianne to looking back out the window.
Sam could feel the tension in the car it was that thick. The tension was becoming more tangible with every minute. He cleared his throat hoping to diminish the tension slightly to no avail.
"About three weeks before the fire she came home for the weekend" Adrianne suddenly said and Sam turned to face her.
Sam remembered that weekend, he'd been alone for the first time, and he'd lived in a dorm with other people before he moved in with Jess but then still he was never alone. It was one of the first times in his life that he was by himself for the night and filled the void of loneliness with strictly concentrating on his textbook. The whole two days Jess was away Sam didn't move from his textbook; not even for food. It wasn't until she came through the front door that he realised he'd been sitting there re-reading his textbook for two days. Jess had freaked out and made him eat a large amount of spaghetti that she had bought back from her parent's house and scolded him for studying too much.
"I wouldn't eat and our parents had been trying to get me to eat something for three days but I refused, it's why she came back for the weekend I think. Our mum called her asking for help. She came home and painted it and told me to eat" Adrianne chuckled, "she hung it in my room and every time I saw it I craved food and ate something."
"Why a bowl of spaghetti?" Sam asked
"She made a heap of it and sat in my room eating it trying to tempt me. Tempt me into eating or tempt me into not being anorexic. Some weird reasoning of hers, it worked though" Adrianne laughed and the tension was gone. "Sam, can I ask you something?"
Adrianne looked sad again, "Anything" Sam responded
"What happened to Jess that night?"
It was not what Sam expected. He had no way to respond he was about open his mouth to begin telling her a story he never wanted to say out loud again when they heard the crash of glass.
"Sam, that was my window! My window just smashed! Oh my god! Dean's in there" Adrianne panicked, scrambling over towards the window to get a closer look.
"Stay here" Sam ordered getting out of the car.
Please let me know what you think of this fic so far. Also I am trying my hand at an action chapter next, little bit of Dean!Fighting. Please review, praise or flame, a review is a review and I ain't choosey XD
