The Winchester Connection

Disclaimer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer belongs to Joss Whedon and Supernatural belongs to Eric Kripke

Spoilers: Goes AU for Buffy season 5, but the plot kinda remains the same.

A/N: The Supernatural timeline, if anyone is confused was pushed back to fit this story. So, this arc takes place during season 2 for Supernatural.

A/N 2: Ages for those wondering, Dawn 14, Buffy, 19, Sam 23, and Dean 27.

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September, 2000

I'm only writing in this diary because I was left alone with nothing to do. No offense to you diary, but you just didn't seem all that interesting when I got you at first. Dean only gave you to me so that I would stay out of trouble. He's so overprotective, and he's not ever my real brother, but he treats me like his real sister and gives me things. So, I can deal.

I didn't know it was possible to have two towns so close together that were both boring. It should be a law that if one town is boring, then the next closest one should be full of fun things to do or something. It would make everyone happy. Of course, that would never happen, unless I became the President or something, but I don't see that happening any time soon. At all. Ever.

But I did this boring town did mean being away from Sunnydale, which meant being away from Buffy, so that's a plus. I was supposed to be spending some time with my brothers, and yea, I know said Dean wasn't my real brother, and he isn't, by blood. When mom died, it wasn't that hard to get Hank to give up custody of me. After that, John adopted me, so that made me family in every way but blood.

Back to the story, the three of us were supposed to be hanging out, but we were deterred from having fun when a case came up. That's why I'm writing in this diary. They didn't want me involved with this, even though I can totally handle myself. They don't think I can learn how to defend myself, but I can. It may not be by slayer strength or anything like that, but I can fight. And I think I will show them how. I'll be back, diary, after I show them I can handle this!

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"What were you thinking Dawn?" Dean practically screamed at the fourteen year old.

"I wasn't--" she started.

"That's right, you weren't thinking. We told you to stay at motel, Dawn!"

"And I said I was sorry! I'm sorry that I left and I'm sorry that Sam got hurt!" her eyes began to water. She hadn't planned on Sam getting hurt; she just wanted to see how they worked. Dean saw the tears in her eyes and sighed. Wiping his hand over his face, he calmed down.

"Don't worry about, just don't do it again. Sam usually gets hurt anyway."

Dawn nodded and gave him her best puppy dog eyes, "Can we not tell Buffy about this?"

"That won't work," Dean stared her down. And it was true. Sam was the same way when they were younger, so Dean had built up immunity to it. The look didn't affect Buffy either. Sam and their dad, on the other hand was a different story. Sam wanted to be the favorite big brother, and Dawn used her puppy eyes on him way too many times. Their dad treated Dawn the same way he had treated Sam. He didn't want Dawn hunting, so to keep her from completely hating him, he spoiled her. Though, he did it in secret so that Buffy wouldn't know about it. Too bad she did.

"But if she finds out then I'll be grounded until I'm 30!"

"It won't last that long," Dean rolled his eyes.

"Mr. Ulrich, you can see your brother now."

Dean nodded toward the nurse and told Dawn that he'd be right back. She nodded as he walked off toward Sam's room, limping slightly. Yea, that was her fault too. She thought that if she hid in the bushes that she could just watch them. But no, she was found, Sam was hurt and Dean was angry. Buffy was going to kill her.

Dawn stood from her chair and stretched. She figured that Dean would take a while with Sam and decided to explore the hospital. But this hospital was like every other hospital. There was nothing she could do to find some fun because everything was basically off-limits. She went down many floors, until she made it to the basement, or at least, the lowest level that a person who wasn't hospital personnel could go.

"Psych ward," Dawn muttered when she saw the sign. She decided this was not the place she wanted to be and turned around. She let out a yelp when she came face to face with a man, whose state of dress let Dawn know that he was patient here. The woman standing with the man, a nurse, apologized and tried to get the man walking again, but he was frozen in place as he continued stared at Dawn.

"You don't belong here," he hissed as he glared at her. "You aren't wanted here, you need to go back."

"Walter, we need to get you to bed," the nurse spoke calmly to the man. She managed to drag him away and left Dawn standing there, a little bit shaken. Coming to her senses, she left the bottom floor in a hurry.

"I wanted to find something to eat," Dawn mumbled when Dean questioned her about where she was.

"Sam's all good to go," Dean told her. "And when we get back, we're gonna have to talk some ground rules that I thought you knew about."

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So, diary, I could not handle it. I followed them, but got caught. Even then, I thought that maybe if I fought back, then they'd treat me like an adult. But no, Sam got hurt because of me. So now, no one will let me do anything anymore. When we came back from the hospital, Dean called Buffy. I am grounded, and so now, I have no life. And as it turned out, Buffy knew that Willow and Tara were teaching me some Wicca things, and that our dad was teaching me a little self defense whenever he came town. She even knew that Anya was telling me stories about her demon days! Stupid slayer powers. So basically, I can't do any of that anymore. Even worse, Dean grounded me too. He considered locking me in the motel room whenever I went with them on a trip.

But something happened at the hospital tonight. I found the psych ward and some guy started telling me that I wasn't real and that I didn't belong here. I mean, clearly he was crazy, but what he said, it worried me. I didn't tell Dean because I don't think it's that big a deal and since we weren't even in Sunnydale when it happened anyway.

Dean's glaring at me because he wants to sleep and I have the light on, so talk to you later diary!

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End

My original idea was to write "The Winchester Connection" as Dawn writing in her diary, but I figured that nothing but italics would drive everyone crazy. So, I decided that the first and last part of the chapters would be Dawn's diary, while the middle is the actual story. And don't worry, chapters will be longer, this was a prologue of sorts… Or is interlude?