Dean drove us to the community College to talk with a professor about Pagan Gods, but I told him I was going to call a contact of mine that may know something about it so he went of ahead of me. Leaning against the car I pulled out my I- phone and call Ash at the Road House.

"Hello Bad Ass talking here." I heard the familiar slurred voice.

"Hey Bad Ass its Alex." I laughed.

"Alex! Wow never thought I would hear from you again."

"Yeah sorry about not calling sooner. I just needed some time away from everything." I sighed feeling bad about not calling sooner.

"I get it Alex, crap like what happened to you will mess anyone up for a while." I heard him say softly making me fell even worse then before.

"Hey Mr. Bad Ass, don't get mushy on me now." I forced out a laugh and smiled when I heard him chuckle.

"So I'm guessing you called for another reason then to say hi." Ash said and I could practically hear him smile.

"Yeah I'm doing a hunt right now, and I could use some help with it."

"I thought you were done with hunting?" He asked confused.

"I was, but I back in the game now." I said a little to cheerfully knowing he wouldn't buy it, but hoping that he would.

"And you sound so happy about it." He said chuckling, "Not that I'm not glad that you are back, it's just you sounded pretty serious when you said you were done with it."

"Look can you help me or not?" I asked to avoid answering him, I really didn't want to get into the reason why I came out of retirement.

"Of course I can!" He said sounding offended, " When have I ever let you down?"

"Well…" I snickered while trailing off, " Do you really want me to answer that?"

"No."

"I didn't think so." I laughed, " I need to know about Pagan Gods."

"Pagan Gods? What kind of job are you working?" He asked surprised.

"A freaky ass one." I said simply. "Okay so what can you tell me." I repeated.

"Well can you give me more then just Pagan Gods, like where your at?" He asked and I could hear him clicking away on his laptop.

"I'm in Burkitsville, Indiana. And uh let me think," I said tapping my chin, "… oh yeah, it likes to hang out at orchards, possessed a scarecrow, oh and it has a whole town feeding it dinner once a year. That enough information for you?" I smirked when I heard him call me a name would guarantee him a black eye the next time I saw him, god I really did miss him. Who would have thought.

"Yeah that should do it. Just give me a sec." Ten seconds latter he was telling me everything he found on Pagan Gods of the area. He said that the one Dean and I were dealing with was Vanir a Norse god of protection and prosperity keeping towns safe from all kinds of harm. He also told me that to keep that protection Vanir needed a human sacrifice one male, and one female. I thank him promising to keep in touch, told him to say hi for me to the others, and I hanged up on when he started bugging me about being safe. He worried to much it's not like this was my first hunt, I thought before everything went black.

When I woke up my head was on someone's lap, and I could feel a bad headache coming on. I decided right then that I would never tell Ash about this, he would never let me live it down. I sat up and regretted it at once because my head felt like it was hit with a slug hammer.

"You alright?" I heard a deep, gruff yet worried voice whisper next to me. I turned my head slowly to see Dean was the one I was using as a pillow, then I grimaced when I saw we where trapped in a cellar.

"Never been better." I whispered back while rolling my eyes grimacing yet again when my head started pounding.

"Well since you're still using sarcasms you can't be to badly hurt." He grinned at me brightly making my breath speed up a little, but that was just because my brain was working up a escape plan from my skull, at least that was what I was telling my self.

"So you have any idea of how to get out of here?" I asked trying to keep my voice steady from the pain I was feeling.

"I'm working on it." He muttered avoiding my eyes.

"Great." I sighed, "So what did you find out?" I asked mostly to distract myself from the pain in my head.

"Yeah, the town is sacrificing couples to some scarecrow God too keep the town healthy, so we have to find the tree its attached to and burn it." He said noticing me grimace and rubbing my head in pain, it felt like it was getting worse, as if it were growing into something more.

"Hey you alright?" He asked kneeling in front of me to look in my eyes. His eyes were really expressive, I could see he was worried for me and I couldn't help but feel touched by it, it made my stomach fill with butterflies.

"My head hurts a little, but I'll be fine Dean." I smiled at him and his eyes flickered for a second before he put a mask on to hide his emotions.

"Alright, if your sure." He said sounding unsure, but before I could down play my pain anymore the creeps who got off on feeding people to freaky ass scarecrows came for us. This day couldn't get any worse.

(Dean Prov)

Man this sucked! This day couldn't get any worse. I mean here we are tied to a freaking tree waiting to be fed to a scarecrow. A scarecrow! Not how I imagined going down.

"So you have a plan yet?" I head Alex mutter from where she was tied at. I tried to look over at her because it worried me how weak her voice sounded, but I couldn't see her. Ever since we got locked in that cellar she had been looking pale, she said she was fine but I didn't believe her since I've seen ghosts with better color then her. A part of me wondered why I was worried so much about a girl I barely new, but a larger part of me just wanted to go over to her and make sure she was okay. If Sam could hear me now he would laugh himself to death, that or wonder if I was possessed by something hell I starting to wonder the same, there was just something telling me to protect her. Not that I would ever tell her or anybody else about that.

"Dean!" She said a little louder to get my attention.

"Wh- Oh yeah, I'm still working on it." I said trying not to sound panicked. I didn't think it worked.

"Wonderful." She sighed. "Don't worry we're get out of this." I told her with a weak chuckle hoping to make her feel better. "Besides, I'm to pretty to die at the hands of something so ugly, now if it were you killing me..." I trailed off smiling when I hear her laugh. "Try to see if that thing is moving yet."

"I can't see anything." She muttered, but before she could say anything else I hear a twig snap near by and I started to struggle to get free.

"Dean?" I heard a familiar voice call out.

(overjoyed) "Oh! Oh, I take everything back I said. I'm so happy to see you. Come on." I said overjoyed to see my baby brother. "How'd you get here?" I asked as he untied me. "I, uh—I stole a car." Sam muttered sheepishly causing me to laugh, I thought him something after all. "Haha! That's my boy! And keep an eye on that scarecrow. He could come alive any minute." "What scarecrow?" I turned to see the if the scarecrow was still tied to the post, it wasn't. It looks like this day can get worse.

"Uh, Hello can someone untie me!" Alex hissed at us and Sam and I ran to get her untied but when she stood up she looked as if she couldn't walk.

"Hey, you alright?" Sam asked her with that puppy dog look in his face, well good luck with that Sam, I thought, she wont answer you.

"I think they hit my head harder then I first thought." She said looking at him, and for some reason this made me want hit Sam over the head. Maybe latter. I took a hold of her and lifted her up and carried her like a baby as Sam and I ran for it. "Alright, now, this sacred tree you're talking about—" Sam asked me as we ran. "It's the source of its power." I answered him while making sure Alex was okay, she looked like she was fighting to stay awake. "So let's find it and burn it." Sam said as if it were obvious. "Nah, in the morning. Let's just shag ass before Leather Face catches up." I wanted to get Alex out of here I didn't like how pale she look, she usually has a natural tan now she looked like the dead. When we came to a clearing we got surrounded by those crazy town folk.

"Please. Let them go." That Emily girl was begging to her aunt, it look like she didn't want this to happen. "It'll be over quickly, I promise." Her uncle said trying to reassure her.

"Good to know." Alex whisper so low I think I was the only one who heard her. "Please." Emily tried again. "Emily, you have to let him take them. You have to—" All of a sudden, the scarecrow sticks his sickle through her uncle stomach. Emily and her aunt screamed and tried to reach him, but then her aunt was captured by the scarecrow, as well. Emily runs into Sam's arms while her aunt and uncle are dragged away by the scarecrow. The rest of the town ran for it. Cowards.

"Come on, let's go." I said tuning away from the scene.

(Alex Prov)

While the boys and that Emily girl where out burning that God forsaken tree I was resting trying to ignore the pain in my head. But as the time went by the pain got worse, it got so bad I was sobbing into my pillow.

"Oh, sweetheart." A soft voice sighed from beside me. I looked up slowly because that voice was one I only dream about.

"Mom?"

"Hi baby." She smiled, she was so beautiful I couldn't help but cry harder. "Oh, baby don't cry." She smiled sadly.

"Why, How?" I asked thru my tears.

"They sent me to help you." She answered while rubbing my tears away, then she placed her hand over my head and the pain went away.

"Who sent you, help me how?" I whispered still crying and hugging her with all I had in me.

"I can't tell you who sent me baby, but I want to tell you how sorry I am." She said with tears in her eyes, my eyes, she looked so sad and so happy at the same time.

"Sorry about what?' I felt as if I where in a dream, I never thought I would get to meet her, and yet here she was hugging me and apologizing to me. This had to be a dream.

"I should have told someone, but I didn't," She whispered in my ear like she was afraid someone would have heard her, "I want you to know that everything I did I did to protect you."

Everything she was saying made no sense to me, what did she do? "I don't understand, protect me from what?"

"You are very special my dear, you have a great destiny ahead of you" She smiled at me with a proud look in her eyes before they turned sad again, "Things are about to get hard for you sweetheart, your in for a lot of pain in the next few years," She sighed before going on, "But you need to understand that everything happens for a reason." She said putting more strength into the last five words. "You need to follow your heart, remember this Alexandra, follow your heart no matter where it takes you." She stood taking me with her and hugging me hard. "Trust Dean sweetheart, trust him with everything you have, he's your shield now." I didn't understand what she was saying, but I would worry about that latter I was just happy being with my mother for the fist time. "I have to go baby." She whispered.

"No!" I yelled holding her tighter, "You cant go, you cant leave me alone again." I cried.

"Listen to me Alexandra, you are never alone I have always been with you and your sisters." She told me gently, "But I have to go now sweetheart, but remember that I'm always there." The next thing I new I was being woken up by Dean. I sat up and looked around hoping to see my mother, but she was gone. A part of me was telling me that everything was a dream, but I somehow new that it wasn't, that and the pain in my head was gone.

"You alright?" Dean asked me looking worried. He's your shield now.

"Yes Dean, I'm fine now." I smiled at him.

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