Hello all. I would like to thank hose of you who have followed and favoured this story since my last update.

So here's the next chapter I would just like to state that the hospital mentioned is complete fiction as far as I know.

Enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own Supernatural.

Melissa had left the house of the Singer-Winchester family the day after Eve had been killed and returned to college. Returned to her studies, moving on to medical school with ease. And though she never forgot what she had witness there she had put the incident out of her mind. Including any and all thoughts of a certain Sam Winchester. She had never tried to call him or contact him after leaving, she had made her decision when she went to college that she had left that life behind, and being involved with Sam would most certainly question that resolution. But on occasion those thoughts she tried so hard to block seeped through and she wondered how he was and what he was up to with his life. Had he gone back to college after the incident or had he returned to hunting with his brother? Was he still in the life? And lately did she want to be back in it as well? For as much as she enjoyed being a doctor and helping people she would still see certain wounds and wonder if one of the monsters that she knew were out there had done it, and if so if she could have done anything to prevent these people getting hurt. But on the whole she was content with her life. She worked as much as she could in her new job at Lebanon Hospital, trying to help as much as she could, but still there was that nag at the back of her mind that she just couldn't settle. Like something was telling her that she had taken the wrong path at some time in her life. But what path she should have taken was a mystery to her.

And so Melissa's ordinary life plodded on, or it did until late one Saturday night at the end of her shift her phone rang. She felt it must have been an act of god or some such, because it also happened to be her last shift before the start of her enforced two weeks holiday in which she had no plans. And when she saw the name on her caller ID, it made her more inclined to believe that thought rather than less. For the caller was none other than Sam Winchester.

"Hello Sam." she answered after an internal debate which lasted of all about five seconds.

"Hi Melissa, um, I didn't wake you or anything did I?" He asked and she thought he sounded somewhat uncertain, but that was understandable considering they hadn't spoken in almost two years and she imagined the only reason he was calling her was because they needed something once again. Though strangely that thought didn't put her off, if anything it made excitement that she hadn't felt since there last outing swell inside her.

"No not at all, I've just finished my shift." She said brightly not even realising that a smile had broken out on her tired face at the sound of his voice.

"Okay good." Sam replied, he was sitting in the dark on the couch in Bobby's front room and the phone kept slipping in his hand due to his sweaty palms, damn why was he so nervous? Though he knew the answer to that was that Rose had hinted that maybe the woman he was currently talking to was his soulmate. Damn that was a crazy thought. He quickly shook it from his head, it wasn't like he could tell her that now was it?

"So Sam, what's up?" Melissa said when he said no more wondering just what was going through his head.

"Well, um, I remember you mentioning once something about the men of letters-" Sam started though to Melissa his voice sounded like he was forcing himself to speak, which made her pause before she spoke. Maybe he didn't actually want to speak to her, it was just he was the one who had been designated to do so.

"I don't know much more than I told you Sam, I'm sorry." She said trying to make sure that her voice was firm yet also that she was approachable if Sam had more to say. She hoped he did, she hoped he would ask her to join them doing whatever it was they were doing this time.

At Melissa's sentence Sam winched, it was obvious she thought he was phoning to pump her for information, which he wasn't. In fact now he had heard her voice again he was seriously starting to wonder how he had survived without it for the last two years. So taking a deep breath he took the plunge and spoke once more, though this time slightly less coherently.

"No, no I understand that, it's, um, just well, um, we might have a lead on their secret base of knowledge and I wondered if you wanted to join us to hunt for it."

Melissa was silent as she heard the words. If she wasn't mistaken the way Sam said it, it was like he was asking her out, in the strange way that the hunting world worked anyway. Though she guessed most women wouldn't find the idea of hunting for the knowledge base of the men of letters a good date, to her it sounded fun and exciting and well… all the things she had been missing in her life for the last two years. Her boring normal life.

"Yeah I think I would like that." She replied with a smile on her face at the idea of going hunting with Sam, she briefly wondered who else would be going with them, but it was Sam she was most interested in.

"Great, um, how soon can you get up here? Do you still remember the way?" Sam asked.

"Yes Sam and I can be there tomorrow afternoon if that's any good?" Melissa said then closed her eyes wondering if she should have claimed that she didn't remember, but seriously what would be the point of that?

"Yeah that's great, awesome. Great. So um, I guess I'll see you then then." Sam replied sounding a bit like an excited puppy.

"Yes I guess you will." Melissa said with a smile even if Sam couldn't see it he could hear it in her voice.

"Right well, night then." Sam finally said somewhat wistfully as if he didn't want to hang up now he had had the courage to make the call.

"Good night Sam." and with that Melissa hung up her phone an new spring in her step and a smile on her face, and in South Dakota in a darkened living room Sam was beaming as he lay down and stared at the ceiling thinking about seeing Melissa once again the next day. Seemed Rose had been right after all. He really would have to learn that she usually was, she was after all well connected in the world of destiny.