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Disclaimer: No people, if I owned them there would be wincest. I don't own Charmed either.
Chapter Summary: Sam helps Piper hunt demons and thus, they bond. Dean runs into him and a confrontation may be about to start.
Sam gazed out the window of the very fast-moving car and jerked a little to the side as the car made a sharp turn. He turned his head to smile slightly at Phoebe, who in turn looked at him like he was insane. He shrugged at her, not understanding what the problem was. Pipers' mood didn't really bother him all that much. Her attitude was actually quite calming.
The reckless way in which she was charging after random demons reminded Sam of how Dean acts when he used hunting as a venting tool and not just a job. Piper was probably acting the way she was because of Prue's recent death. Dean used to do reckless things like charging at the first demon available in the weeks after Dads' death. The reminder of Dean soothed Sam, as he hadn't been able to spend that much time with him recently.
Recently, he'd been spending all of his time at the Halliwells, only going to the trashy room to pretend to sleep until he was sure Dean was asleep. Then he would sneak out of the hotel again to help around the Halliwell manor and join Piper on her missions to vanquish demons. He tagged along with Piper, Phoebe, and Cole as they drove all around San Francisco blowing up the first thing that showed its' face.
The car harshly came to a stop. Phoebe and Cole ran up to tag along with Piper. They didn't support Piper's way of handling her grief. That much was obvious. Sam didn't blame them. It was a little reckless after all, but so far, they were doing okay. Although Piper didn't say anything to him about it, he knew she greatly appreciated him not arguing with her about her way of grieving.
He could tell by the way she looked at him with a light smile and by the tension in her shoulders slightly dropping when she met his eyes. She knew he supported her and was thankful for him. He could tell she knew he was on her side by the things she said as well. For example, when Phoebe and Cole told her she was being reckless, she told them that they could stay at home and that Sam and her would vanquish demons without them. The simple fact that she included him in that way hinted that she knew and greatly appreciated Sam for being there for her even though she was acting slightly suicidal.
Piper was seriously stressed everything. The Source was going to come after them and they were expected to train Paige, Dean, and Sam to face him, as if she could put her family members in that kind of danger without a second thought, and accepting Paige… especially right after what happened to Prue, it felt like replacing Prue and preparing another sister to die. Talking to her would mean opening up to another sister and setting herself up for more pain.
The only good thing out of all of this seemed to be Sam at the moment. He was being very supportive of her and out of every one; it felt like he was the only one that could understand exactly what she was doing and why. The others just kept telling her how reckless she was being. She didn't care! She was just so sick of demons coming after them over and over again and never giving her a break. She wanted them to know how she felt, so she tried to go after them as they were going after her. Sam was the only one who didn't constantly complain about her being reckless.
"Piper," Phoebe said from next to her. "Cole and I do not support you this. If you insist on doing it, you're going in alone."
Piper just kept walking, knowing she was bullshitting, but even if she wasn't, it wouldn't have really mattered to her. "Fine, I'll see you at home."
"I told you that wouldn't work!" Phoebe said to Cole.
"It was worth a shot…" Cole replied.
"Wait a minute," Phoebe said, looking up. "Do you smell smoke?"
"It's in there," Piper said, eyeing down the door and preparing to blow it up. Cole approached the door as he heard muffled shouts coming from behind it. "Get back," she said. "I'll blow it up."
Instead, she froze Cole. She sighed and tried again, blowing it up this time. A man ran out, followed by a couple of dog-faced bitches with claws as fingers. They glared at her nastily and she tried to freeze them, only to find them immune to her powers. Sam stood beside her, ready to back her up in the fight. Piper looked at him and relaxed slightly, turning to Phoebe.
"They won't freeze! They're immune to my powers."
"Unfortunately, Cole isn't!" she shouted, looking over to her frozen boyfriend.
One of them lunged at her, but Sam intercepted it and gave a good kick to the gut, knocking the demon back. Phoebe floated in the air and kicked one herself. The third demon leapt on Sam and knocked him to the floor. Piper threw her hands at her and blew the demon up as the demon punched him in the face. He winced as demon blood sprayed all over her face. Then the first one jumped on Piper, knocking her down and breathed into her nose just before Sam kicked her off. The second one jumped on Sam's back and dug her claws into Sam's back and scratched him across the face.
"Unfreeze Cole!" Phoebe shouted.
"What if I blow him up?!" she asked.
Sam turned and elbowed the girl demon in the side and slammed her into the floor. The second demon escaped from Phoebe and jumped at Piper, knocking her back, causing Cole to unfreeze. He aimed his hands at the demons and threw an energy ball toward them. They seemed to get the point and disappeared into a puff of smoke. Piper leaned against a trash can and started coughing. Sam ran over to check on her.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
"Yeah yeah, don't worry about me. You're hurt too," she said, pointing at his wounds.
Sam shrugged it off. "It's nothing."
Piper smiled slightly and coughed again, pushing his shoulder. "Then ditto here Sam. It's nothing."
Sam smiled back at her and wrapped an arm around her in a friendly gesture. "Let's get back home, okay?"
Piper tensed slightly and seemed to think for a second before relaxing and leaning into his grip. "Sure, we need to find out who those dog-faced bitches were anyway."
"Piper, you almost died, that demon was attacking you with her smoke-thing!" Phoebe shouted.
"Whatever, let's just go home," Piper said and headed back to the car.
She got behind the wheel and slammed the door closed. Cole got in the seat next to her and glared. "You are going to get us all killed. You do realize that, right?"
She glared right back at him. "Get in the back mister. I'd rather sit next to Sam. He doesn't complain as much as you do." He just sat there and kept glaring at her. "Did you hear me or not? Get in the back dammit!"
He finally, reluctantly got out of the car and climbed in the back with Phoebe as Sam climbed out of the back and sat in the front next to Piper. Piper sighed and her tense shoulders visibly dropped. Sam wouldn't be as hard on her. He understood that everyone else was nagging on her enough and that anything he could say would only aggravate her more.
They went home to, unfortunately, run into another problem. The book was gone! Piper screamed and the siblings in the house came running. Sam got there first. She turned to look at him directly and held out her hands, freaked out.
"EVIL GOT THE BOOK OF SHADOWS! How did evil get The Book of Shadows?!"
"Wait… evil got The Book of Shadows?" Sam asked. "Is that even possible? I-I thought it protected itself!"
"It does," Piper said "A really powerful demon must have gotten it!"
"Oh no…" Phoebe said.
Piper turned to her and snapped. "Oh no?! Phoebe, evil got The Book of Shadows. Oh no doesn't quite cover it!"
"Uhm… yeah. Listen Piper…"
Sam raised an eyebrow at her. "What happened Phoebe?"
"Look, I want you to promise me not to overreact."
"Just tell us what happened to the book," Sam said.
"Uhm… I think Paige might have… borrowed the book."
"What makes you think that?"
"Well, she acted like she was in a hurry to go and…" Phoebe said and pointed to the open window in the attic.
Sam's eyes widened and Piper looked on the verge of a mental breakdown. "She threw the book out of the window!?"
"Now listen, I know it sounds bad… I don't think she understood just how important it was and…."
"We need to go and get the book back. I don't think it should ever leave the house," Sam said. "I mean, evil is always trying to get it and taking it out of the house just makes it easier for them."
"Definitely…" Piper said and stormed out of the attic.
"Now Piper, she's our sister," Phoebe said.
Piper turned and glared at her before pointing a finger in her direction. "Not for long!" she snapped before storming out, Sam tagging along behind her.
Phoebe chased her out while Cole sat down comfortably on a chair. Phoebe appeared back in the room a few seconds later and looked at him. "Aren't you coming?" she asked.
"To vanquish your sister?" he replied. "Nah, I think I'll sit this one out."'
Phoebe rolled her eyes at him before running after two of her now four siblings. She wondered what her other brother was up to…
Dean walked into Paige's workplace, hoping to question Paige about Sam's where-a-bouts. Lately, he barely saw his brother, and that freaked him out. He needed to know where his brother was in order to protect him. If something happened to him… Dean didn't know what he'd do. Just spending time away from him was torture to Dean. Having Sam around was like his anchor to reality. Whenever Dean felt stressed out, he could just look at Sam and feel better. The more time he spent away from him, the more it felt like he was losing his sanity.
A balding man ran past him being chased by a bunch of woman shouting out profane things to him. He watched the crowd run by him wide-eyed.
"Now that's not natural. That's got to be one of the weirdest things I've ever seen…" he muttered. "Why are you running!?" he shouted. "Shit, what a lucky guy…"
He shook his head and walked over to Paige to see her covering her front with her red sweater. He tried to shake off the crazy unnatural scene and leaned over Paige's desk to stare at her blushing face as she tried to duck behind the desk. Dean raised an eyebrow at her. Not only did his sister look guilty, but she also looked embarrassed, and was clearly trying to hide something.
"You know, I just saw the weirdest thing. A dude was being totally mobbed by a fan-girl crowd. Shit, that Axe stuff really DOES work."
"It's not Axe…" she muttered, blushing.
Dean raised his eyebrow again. "Oh, well I have a feeling you had something to do with this. Spill!"
"Well, I sort of cast a spell to make him get a taste of his own medicine. He's always harassing the girls at work and I thought that maybe if he was harassed for once, he'd back off."
Dean laughed. "Oh hell, if I was molested by a crowd of women, I'd thank whatever power put this sacred curse upon me and let the women have their way with me right out there in public."
"Perv!" she snapped, clutching at her sweater.
"Why are you hiding what's under your sweater?"
"Uhm…" she said blushing. "The spell kind of did something to me too…"
"Let's see it then…" Dean said, smirking.
"No!"
"Look Paige, I'm going to see the effects sooner or later, so let's just make it sooner."
Paige sighed and let her sweater open to reveal her extremely large cleavage to Dean's very wide eyes. "Well fuck me," he said. "Those are some damn huge tits. I didn't know you could write a spell for that kind of thing…"
"Stop staring!" she snapped.
"I can't help it! It's in my nature!" he protested.
"Well quit it! Fight against your nature and help me sneak out of here…" Dean kept staring and Paige hit him with The Book of Shadows. "COME ON!"
Dean blinked and looked away. "Okay okay, fine Betty Boop, let's go."
He snuck out of the building as Paige covered her tits, trying not to bring any attention to them, which in effect, Dean thought, only brought more attention to them. Then they ran into a murderous looking Piper, Phoebe, and Sam. Dean sighed and gazed at him.
"Alright missy," Piper said and stopped Paige in her tracks. "You are so…" Paige let go of her sweater and it fell around her, letting her gigantic tits show.
"Busty…" Sam finished for Piper. Paige gave him a fierce glare. "I-I mean busted… yeah… busted…" He laughed nervously and scratched the back of his head.
"So Sammy, this is where you've been hanging around all day," Dean said. "I'm glad to see you for once…"
Sam smiled at him. "I'm glad to see you too Dean, I missed-"
Sam was cut off when his brother pulled him into a fierce hug. Sam laughed a little and hugged Dean back, relishing in the embrace. Then Dean pulled back and stared at him. "Sammy! What the hell happened to your face?!"
"Uh… demon hunting?"