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Dean pulled into the parking lot of a bar.

I got out the car and smiled.

"Man, I can't remember the last time I was here."

"Yeah, it's been what, at least four years?" said dean.

I looked at him and he said, "Well for you. Trust me, I'm what they call a valued customer here."

I smirked and looked back at the dimly lit bar sign.

Dean handed me a few bills and smiled, "Why don't you go buy yourself something nice. We'll meet you in a few."

I took it and gave him a look, "Thanks?"

He nodded and I went up to the bar and sat down. I took off my jacket and the bartender looked back at me.

"Can I get you something?"

"Just a beer. please."

The girl sitting next to me glanced over and then stopped. The bartender handed me an opened beer and I smiled and took it, "Thanks."

I took a drink and the girl looked at me, "Cat."

I stopped and looked at her, "Excuse me?"

She looked at me and smiled, "Catherine Rouge. Oh my god, it really is you."

I looked at her and shook my head, "I- I'm sorry. Do I…"

I stopped when I realized something and looked at her, "Mandy fun-size pendanski, is that you?"

She nodded and I looked at her, "Oh my god. You- you're not blonde."

She smiled and laughed, shaking her head, "Not anymore. I dyed it all black."

I looked at her and let out a laugh, "Wow. Oh my god, I can't believe it's you. I mean, what are the odds that we'd both end up in Santa Clara of all places."

She shook her head, "It's been too long since I've seen you. What happened to keeping in touch?"

I looked back and stopped, "Well. You know that me and Sam moved to Stanford. So he could go to college there for a few years."

"Where is sam? Are you guys still together?"

I nodded and shrugged, "More or less. I mean, he's here right now. We came with his brother, We- we just moved back to Texas."

"In Santa Clara?"

I shook my head, "Nope, still San Antonio. We're, uh… visiting."

She nodded and then smiled, setting down her beer, "Well, that's awesome. Because I happen to be visiting too. San Antonio will always be my home… and Tennessee."

I smiled and she looked at me, "Why don't you bring him over? We can have a little reunion."

I smiled and looked at her, "Or so you can reminisce."

She looked at me with a smirk and gently punched my arm, "Be quiet and get him for me."

I smiled and sat back up, whistling for sam. Sam and dean stopped, looking back at me and I waved my hand for them to come here.

Sam finally got to the bar and looked at me, "What is-"

Sam paused and looked back at Mandy, "Mandy? You-"

"Yes, Sam. I dyed and cut my hair." said mandy.

He stopped and she looked back at me, "Looks like I'm not the only one."

I smiled too and Mandy looked back at Sam, "So you guys are still together after, what? Ten years? I thought by now you guys would at least be married. You guys don't have kids yet do you."

Sam stopped and shook his head, "Oh, no. No. No kids. We kinda have our hands full already anyway."

She looked at him and he shrugged, "Still on the job."

She stopped and nodded, "Still hunting."

I nodded and she shook her head, "I wish I could say I gave it up a long time ago. But I never once lived in a house where there wasn't a devil's trap at every door and salt at every window."

"Well, you know what they say." said dean.

He came over and looked back at mandy, "You can't give up hunting. The job decides when to give you up."

She smiled, "Dean… You look good for an old man."

He smiled and sat next to her at the bar, "Should I take that as a compliment?"

He asked for a beer at the bar and she smiled, "Take it however you want to."

Dean smirked at her and Sam finally took and seat next to me, looking back at her, "So. How have youbeen."

She shrugged, "Oh. You know, the usual. douche bags and tequila. It's a terrible life style, but at least it's a lifestyle."

"Still working the fortune telling booth at the carnival." said Sam.

She shrugged and took a drink of her beer, setting it back down.

"It's a job that pays money. And everyone knows you don't get rich from being a hunter… Bobby being the exception of course."

Sam looked back down and She looked at him, "You're still afraid of the clowns. And that's why you never came to see me."

Dean smiled and chuckled and Sam looked back at her with a smirk, "Like I said. I had my hands full."

I took a drink of my beer and dean looked back at her, "You know our door is always open to strangers."

Mandy looked back at him, "You're really gonna call me a stranger? After all we've been through?"

He shrugged and looked back, "Don't act like one."

She looked at him and smiled and I looked at her, "I guess if that means you're not done hunting, you wouldn't mind swinging by one of these times at the manor."

She looked down then back at me and smiled, "Sure. I'll make time to swing by."

She got out her wallet to pay and Dean stopped her, "Please. Let me take it. Like you said, no one's rich."

She stopped and looked at him, then getting out the money and setting it down on the bar.

"Thanks. But no thanks. I'm not a hunter, and I'm not rich. But at least I'm happy."

She got up and started walking out when I stopped her, "Mandy."

She stopped and looked back and I said, "You can't fool us if you can't fool yourself."

She stopped and then looked at Dean, "Stay old."

"And you, stay hot." said Dean.

She stopped and smiled at him and Dean smiled too.

She walked out, shutting the door behind her.

Dean smiled and watched the door, "I like what she did to her hair."

He went back and picked up his beer, "It's nice on her."

Sam and me both smiled and exchanged looks. I went back and picked up my beer, "Well, I have good feeling about this."

The End

So, Mandy's new. a little background info on her. She pretty just went to high school with Sam and Cat, and was both of them's best friend. and her dad's a hunter. coincidence? no. see, in my book, bobby and john were brothers, Ellen is their sister. one big happy winchester family. that makes bobby sam and dean's uncle. a little more fitting. john was also friends with mandy's dad, giving sam and mandy the connection. you'll learn more about mandy and the rest of the family in later books, cause i can't spoil it all. But, please please PLEASE, give me a review! it would be greatly appreciated!