Sorry if the dialogue is really effy and if the original characters didn't speak too much in a few scenes; it was actually kind of hard to include them into this episode without having them steal too many lines from the brothers. I managed to do it, though. Mostly. Some of my own original dialogue is cringe worthy so it's probably just as bad, maybe, as the episode itself? Read at your own risk. Unfortunately for you, this cannot be skipped because an important event occurs, kind of. Hope you had Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

Warnings: Original and Unoriginal Content/Dialogue, Errors of Any Kind, Long Chapter Ahead, Unoriginal Not-So-Important Character Introductions, Difficulty With Some Descriptions of Character Appearances/Scenery, Possibility of Incorrect Information/Out-of-Character Moments, Low/High Possibility of Unrealistic/Realistic Actions or Reactions, Violence, Scenes From Episode Are Missing, Changes Were Made to Episode (Placement of Buildings or Objects May Be Different to Better Fit Within Chapter, Etc.), Reoccurring Original Character Guest Starring

Last chapter wasn't very fun to make, to say the least. I'm not saying that it turned out badly; I guess it turned out decently, if not okay, but I still didn't quite like making that chapter because I dislike the episode. Never cared much for that episode. Actually, I've only ever seen the episodes of each season once, twice now that I am making this fanfiction that follows the plots and whatnot of the show, and there are plenty of episodes that I hate, love, dislike, like, or have mixed feelings for. We all do, to be honest. You'll find out more of mine as time goes on. By the way, here's another chapter of an episode I disliked quite a lot, perhaps even hated. This will turn out lovely, won't it? Probably. I love you, guys. Thank you so much for sticking around thus far. You won't regret it, I hope (XD). I have no clue how many chapters this entire series will have. Is there a limit to how many words can be used or how many chapters can be posted? *checks shit out on this site* Okay, definitely isn't a limit because I just found a story with over two-hundred chapters and another story that has over two-million words with over one-hundred chapters. I am definitely going to have a shit large amount of words and chapters for this fanfiction (if I manage to keep it ongoing). I'm getting sidetracked! Read the story! Stop listening to me! Why the fuck are you still reading this author's note?! *throws a cookie at you* Read!

Nina Dobrev as Selena Grant
Hayden Panettiere as Riley Piers
Victoria Justice as Juliet Grant


Make a wish, make a succotash wish
You live the pompous life
Throw kisses all the time, makes wishes don't break mine
Don't be low, you better watch the road
Don't be low, you got the strength and the balls

(Wish : Alien Ant Farm)


~(Approx) Between March 20th-28th, 2006; Near Oklahoma~

It was a very dark night. Not a single star or even the moon was up in the sky to light the way. The only light from anything were the lights of a bar that the Winchester brothers and Grant-Piers half-sisters had stopped by. Outside of the bar, the Impala and the Audi were parked alongside many biker motorcycles; clearly, this bar was for those kind of people. Laying on the hood of the Impala, Sam Winchester was reading a newspaper article about the latest death in the state and he was wearing his usual clothing wear (an attire consisting of a jacket, possibly two shirts, jeans, and shoes; aka, his usual clothing wear). Within the backseat of the Impala, Selena Grant was (as usual) sleeping her little noggin off and all seemed well for her, no symptoms of a nightmare being displayed and she appeared to be wearing an attire that she was seen in more often than not (a black leather jacket replacing her denim vest which she had somehow lost, a black shirt, a pair of black and purple jeans, and some black ankle boots, additionally wearing her jewelry; for the most part, the attire was the same).

While the youngest of the two sets of siblings remained outside of the bar, the eldest of the sibling sets were inside, having the time of their lives. Dean Winchester and Riley Piers were working as a team, hustling some idiots at pool while having a couple of drinks as they did it. Riley, styled in an almost all navy blue attire (tanktop, leather jacket, jeans, and black shoes with some blue designs on the side, additionally wearing her jewelry), had played a game against one of the two guys first and she had purposely lost. Dean, attired in his usual clothing wear (one that was similar to what Sam wore except in darker colors and he wore an amulet), had played the second game against the second guy and lost purposely. However, currently for their third game of pool, Dean (Riley chose not to play again) was kicking the first guy's ass. Riley sipped at her beverage as she watched Dean line up his shot and she smirked at their frowning opponents. Poor bastards hadn't known that they were the victims of a hustle. Dean pocketed the black and he let out a cry of triumphant. Riley let out a laugh and she approached the two guys that they had played against, holding out her hand. "I believe that it's time for you boys to pay up," she said in a fake innocent tone.

Both men looked like they wanted to argue, both of them clearly pissed off that they had lost this final bet. However, when one of them opened their mouth to say something, Riley raised an eyebrow and made a face, daring him to say something to her because she most definitely would knock his ass to the ground and take the earnings forcefully if she had to. Thinking better of his almost decision, he threw his stack of bills onto the pool table instead of in Riley's hand and he stormed off, his friend not too far behind him as they moved to another part of the bar. Rolling her eyes at the sore losers, Riley dropped her empty hand and she looked over at Dean as he picked up the stack of bills. "We did good, Riles," Dean commented as he looked at the money with a wide grin. He looked over at Riley as she smirked at him. "I say we make a pretty damn good team."

Riley hummed as she nodded slightly, her smirk remaining. "I suppose so, Winchester. But don't call me Riles. We're not that close." Turning on the heels of her feet, she began heading towards the exit of the bar, placing her unfinished beverage onto one of the tables she went by as she headed out. Dean, still grinning, followed close behind her and he left his empty bottle behind on the pool table. As the two of them exited the bar, Riley let out a giggle as Dean slightly shoved her and she slightly shoved him back while uttering the word jerk at him. It was great that the two of them were getting along rather nicely at the moment because usually, they were glaring and fussing with each other. Approaching the Impala together, Dean lifted up the wad of cash and waved it in the air as he showed it off to Sam, who had looked up from the newspaper he was reading, while Riley did a fancy little gesture towards the money they won.

"You know, we could get day jobs once in a while," Sam told them as he remained staring up from the newspaper while remaining laying on the Impala. One would believe that he'd only say this to Dean but considering that Riley and Selena had been with the two of them for a while now, he considered them a part of the team. Anyways, Sam disapproved of Dean and Riley's methods of getting cash. There were much better ways to get much needed money and this way just wasn't doing it for him (for now).

Riley scoffed and waved her arm at Sam, moving forward until she was beside the Impala and she leaned up against the vehicle, her body facing Sam but she could easily turn her head to look between the two brothers whenever one of them spoke up. Dean gestured his right hand out for a second before he looked down at the money he and Riley won. "Hunting's our day job and the pay is crap," he stated as he counted the money silently.

Sam glanced towards the bar. "Yeah but hustling pool?" He looked back towards Dean. "Credit card scams?" He shook his head slightly as he glanced between Dean and Riley. "It's not the most honest thing in the world, you guys." Seriously, he hated this method. He hated this life. He hated everything that came with it. He wished he could turn back time and stop Jess from dying so he wouldn't have to go through this shit again. Well, not everything was bad since he was able to meet the Grant-Piers siblings but with what was going through his head right now, meeting them wasn't worth it because everything else sucked ass. They haven't found John Winchester, his father, and they haven't found the creature, the thing that killed Jess. Honestly, this was getting more frustrating as time went onward because dead end after dead end kept recurring. He never should had left Jess alone that night… He could had avoided re-entering this life… Probably…

"Oh, quit your goddamn bitching, Sam," Riley commented as she rolled her eyes at him. Sam glared at her while Dean smirked to himself, still looking at the money. "Seriously, dude," Riley continued, giving Sam a look. "You need to chill the fuck out. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows, Sammy. We gotta do what we gotta do." She looked over at Dean and gestured to him. "Anything you'd like to add?" she asked.

Dean looked up from the money. "Well, let's see." He held out his left hand, the one that happened to be empty. "Honest." He held out his right hand, the one that held the money that was won. "Fun and easy." He, then, made a gesture that fun and easy outweighed honest. He looked over at Sam and shook his head slightly. "There's no contest. Besides, we're good at it. It's what we were raised to do." Those last two sentences were referring to himself and Sam, Riley and Selena not included in the mix. With Riley and Selena, they willingly chose this kind of life; although, Selena still often disagreed with the same things Sam was currently disagreeing with.

"Yeah, well, how we were raised was jacked," Sam stated. Their childhood went out the window the minute their mother was murdered by some supernatural being. Hell, Sam never had a childhood while Dean had a very short one. On a side note, Selena never had a real childhood as well while Riley had one like every normal human being. So, out of the four of them, Riley was the only one who truly had a very normal life at one point while the others did not.

"Yeah, says you," Dean stated as he looked back at his money, returning to counting it. He glanced back up at Sam for a moment to speak further. "We got a new gig or what?" he asked before glancing back down at the money. Riley glanced over at Dean for a moment before she turned her gaze back towards Sam, waiting for him to say something. At the corner of her right eye, she could see Selena shifting in the backseat of the Impala but Selena remained fast asleep.

"Maybe," Sam answered as he looked back at the newspaper in his hand. He removed himself from the hood of the Impala as he began to somewhat read the newspaper article. Actually, he was basically summing up the summary of the article in his own words, to some extent. "Oasis Plains, Oklahoma. Not far from here." He began walking around the Impala and he stopped to be standing in between Dean and Riley, somewhat. "Gas company employee." He paused his speaking for a moment as he glanced up, watching as Dean held out half of the winning money to Riley. Riley glanced over at Dean when she saw him gesturing the money at her from the corner of her eye and she shook her head, gesturing for him to keep it but Dean gave her a stern look, continuing to hold out the money. Riley stared at Dean for a second before she rolled her eyes and she took the money, folding the cash and placing it into her jeans pocket before she looked back at Sam. Sam raised an eyebrow but said nothing about what just happened, continuing with the words he had been saying. "Dustin Burwash supposedly died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob," he said as he placed the newspaper down on the hood of the Impala. While Riley nodded, Dean gave Sam a confused look as Sam looked at him. "Human mad cow disease," Sam explained in less formal wording so that Dean would understand.

A thinking expression appeared on Dean's face. "Mad cow?" he questioned. He placed his half of the winnings into his jacket pocket as he leaned over to look at the newspaper. "Wasn't that on Oprah?" he questioned. He completely missed the confused, slash surprised looks on Riley's and Sam's face. This was news to them, neither one of them thinking that Dean would watch Oprah of all things.

"You watch Oprah?" Sam questioned as he stared at Dean. His confusion and surprise quickly turned into amusement as he thought about his older brother watching something like that. Maybe he had been a bit drunk when he watched it. That had to be the explanation for it but Sam honestly didn't care because it was still funny regardless of whatever the reason was.

"And when the hell did you ever manage to find the time to watch Oprah?" Riley questioned, very close to laughing and smirking her ass off. You learn something new everyday, it seems. She was really curious, though, about how he managed to get some time to watch that. Breaks in between cases, maybe? Probably.

For the next several seconds, Dean was trying very hard to think of something to say but he couldn't come up with anything. Embarrassed about accidentally revealing that he watched Oprah, he quickly changed the topic to save himself from becoming more embarrassed about it. "So, this guy eats a bad burger. Why is it our kind of thing?" Hopefully, this wouldn't be another incident where one brother believed something was up while the other brother believed differently. The two of them were too often going back and forth with that.

"Mad cow disease causes massive brain degeneration. It takes months, even years, for the damage to appear," Sam explained. "But this guy, Dustin? Sounds like his brain disintegrated in about a hour. Maybe less." That was a very impossible thing to have happen. Someone cannot simply go from looking healthy to being dead the next minute from something like that so this death had something fishy about it. What was so fishy about it, they'd have to go figure that out when they got to the place.

"Well, that could be…" Riley began but she immediately paused and she shook her head, taking back the words she started with. "Yeah, that's super fucking weird." What the hell could had caused something as horrible as that? Definitely not bad food.

Sam nodded as he glanced at Riley for a moment. "Yeah." He looked back over at Dean. "Now, it could be a disease. Or it could be somethin' much nastier." Well, it definitely had to be something much nastier because there just couldn't be a disease that could kill you off that damn quickly. There was no way that was anywhere close to being possible.

Riley stopped leaning against the Impala and she stretched a bit. "Well. I, for one, am hoping it's just a disease. 'Cause I'm not looking forward to fighting something that can disintegrate someone's brain in less than a hour." She walked past Sam, heading towards her vehicle that was parked nearby. "Lead the way, you giants," she stated as she hopped into her car, literally. Without a word, Dean and Sam entered the Impala. Soon enough, both vehicles were driving away and into the night as they left the bar…

~(Approx) Between March 20th-28th, 2006; Oklahoma~

It was daylight when the Impala and Audi pulled up to the Oklahoma Gas and Power Company building. Both vehicles parked beside each other, Riley stepped out of her Audi while Dean, Sam, and Selena (who awoken from her beauty rest just a few minutes before they got there) stepped out of Dean's Impala. There were very few open parking spaces left, other vehicles parked here and there. The four hunters walked across the parking lot, heading straight for the white work truck that a dark-haired man was standing by.

"Travis Weaver?" Sam asked as the four of them stopped walking, all of them standing before the man. The man, supposedly named Travis, stared at the four of them suspiciously, eyeing them one by one. Dean was standing up front with Riley standing behind him towards the left while Sam and Selena were standing behind him towards the right. All of them had serious expressions on their faces; luckily, Selena had woken up just in time for everything to be explained to her before they had gotten there or she would had been very confused and a confused expression would had been on her face instead. At last, the man nodded in answer, confirming that he was indeed Travis. You see, Travis was the only one to witness the end of Dustin, to an extent; well, he saw him alive one minute and then, in the next minute, he saw him dead but he didn't actually see the man die, only seeing the aftermath of whatever had happened.

Dean glanced back towards Sam, somewhat Selena, and somewhat Riley before he looked at Travis again. "Are you the Travis who worked with Uncle Dusty?" he asked the man. He had a plan in mind already, which happened to be the usual plan for these kinds of things. Step one: lie his pants off to get information. Step two: figure shit out. Step three: deal with the monster or whatever it was. Step four: repeat these steps when a new case begins. Same old, same old. Nothing new, really. Except for maybe some of the things they dealt with.

Travis nodded again, standing up a bit straighter as he stared at the four hunters. "Dustin never mentioned nephews. Or nieces, for that matter." He appeared to still be a bit wary of them, suspicious of them. Well, who could really blame him? He never heard of them before and he never saw them before so he couldn't just take Dean's word for it. That would be stupid. That was like saying he should trust a clown that happened to be holding a knife and it just so happened to be beckoning him to come closer to it. Only a complete moron would fall for that shit. He'd need some sort of proof but then again, part of him believed this lie. Why? It was better to believe something than to question it. Most human beings were like that because they'd rather believe one thing rather than the worst thing.

"Really?" Dean questioned. "Well, he sure mentioned you." Riley, Sam, and Selena nodded in sync with each other as they automatically agreed with Dean's lie. "He said you were the greatest." He had a small smile on his face as he lied straight out of his ass. This was just one of the many things that made him amazing at being a hunter. He could very easily kiss ass to get things he wanted, most of the time. He had better chances of people believing him and his lies than he had chances to get with every girl he flirted with because half the time, the girls he flirted with would leave him in the dust because of numerous reasons.

Travis began to smile rather largely as he looked down a bit. "Oh, he did? Huh." There goes the suspicion that he had of the four hunters because Travis was choosing to believe what he was hearing. He liked the thought of Dustin having said great things about him. The two of them had been good, perhaps decent, friends for years, after all. It really was nice to hear this information, whether it was true or not (and it definitely wasn't true, in this scenario, but he surely believed it). Some sadness began to show in his happy expression as he thought about how Dustin was gone and never coming back.

"So, uh, what exactly happened out there?" Riley asked, wanting to get to the point of why they had came there to begin with. Enough small talk, they needed information about the incident. She didn't want to give two shits about this man and his feelings. She just wanted to get the info, check out the site, and then head off elsewhere to get more info and whatnot. God, she couldn't stand this mess sometimes. Depending on the person and the story they had, she'd either actually care or she'd be like how she was now, not giving a shit and wanting this over with.

Travis began to frown as he shrugged, looking over at her for a split second before he turned his attention towards all of them again. "I'm not sure. He fell in a sinkhole, I went to the truck to get some rope, and, uh…" His voice broke for a split second and he paused for a moment, gulping. "By the time I got back…" This was a very touchy conversation for him. He didn't want to talk about what he saw, what had happened. He wished that it had only been a nightmare but sadly, this was a nightmare that he wouldn't wake up from.

"Did you see anything peculiar at all when you came back?" Selena asked with a frown. She didn't like having to ask him this but it was for the case. She could tell how much this was bothering him but information was, sadly, needed. Travis shook his head and the question seemed to bring out more of the man's emotions as he appeared to be either close to crying or just was becoming much more uncomfortable with the conversation. Unfortunately, Selena had to ask further questions and if she didn't ask, it was likely that either Dean or Riley would ask and it would be in a non-sympathetic way. "Not even wounds of any sort?" she asked as she tilted her head, still frowning. Travis shook his head once again. "I see. Such a shame, though. He was a good man. He...cared deeply for others, even when he didn't often show it." She was lying, of course, since she never knew the man but these words seemed to touch Travis as he half-smiled at her, nodding slightly so it appeared she had said something that was actually correct.

Travis opened his mouth to speak but words failed to escape for a few seconds. "...Well, he was bleeding," he revealed to all of them. "From his eyes and his ears, his nose. But that's it." He shrugged slightly. "It could be this mad cow disease but I don't know. That's what the doctors are sayin' about it, anyway." He wasn't entirely sure if that is what caused his friend to die, but something surely killed him and it had to be some sort of disease that must had gone undiagnosed.

"But if it was, he would've acted strange beforehand," Sam began, shaking his head. "Like dementia, loss of motor control. You ever notice anything like that?" He was simply trying to get to the bottom of this. He, and the others, needed to be completely sure that it wasn't mad cow disease that killed Dustin. Because if it was some disease, they could go ahead and leave because that would mean this wasn't a case that concerned them.

Travis shook his head adamantly. "No, no way." He stopped his head shaking and he looked like he was unsure of what to think. "But then again, if it wasn't some disease, what the hell was it?" What the hell was it, indeed. That was something the hunters were going to try and find out.

That conversation ending, Sam asked where the sinkhole was located and Travis willingly gave them instructions to the location without asking why he and the others wanted to know. For all he knew, maybe they wanted to stay away from the location since he believed them to be related to the dead man. The instructions to the work site were given to the hunters and soon enough, the hunters returned to their vehicles and were off to a new location. Reaching the construction site, the four hunters arrived in the area where Dustin had died. Parking the vehicles, the four of them removed themselves from each car and they walked over to the obvious sinkhole that was surrounded by police tape. Everyone in the area that was either working or walking around as they took a short break didn't seem to pay them any mind, not caring about why they were there or they simply just didn't care to notice them in the first place because they were too busy working.

"Huh," Dean commented as he peered over the police tape, his eyes on the sinkhole of doom. "What do you think?" he asked the others as he looked towards them. Riley shrugged, shoving her hands into the pockets of her jacket as she stared down at the sinkhole. Selena didn't answer in any sort of way and she just appeared to be entirely uncomfortable about something as she glanced around at their surroundings; most likely, she didn't like doing this in broad daylight where they could easily get caught by someone, namely the workers that happened to be all around the area but luckily, those workers weren't paying any attention whatsoever to the four of them.

Sam shrugged like Riley had, only he actually gave a verbal response as well. "I don't know, but if that guy, Travis, was right, it happened pretty damn fast." Whatever this creature was, it could kill someone in mere minutes or perhaps mere seconds. Either way, they needed to be careful. Together, the four of them ducked underneath the police tape and they circled around the hole in the ground. Everyone, except for Selena, crouched down beside the hole.

Dean reached into his pocket and he pulled out a flashlight, shining it down into the very dark and not so roomy sinkhole. If there was any sort of evidence as to what had killed Dustin, that evidence would be down in the sinkhole. Just, uh, they'd have to decide who was going down into the darkness where danger could still be lurking. Thankfully, that decision didn't need to occur just yet. "So, what? Some sort of creature chewed on his brain?" Dean questioned as he peered down into the hole. Not much could be seen within it, apart from lots and lots of dirt.

Riley made a face of disgust at the thought of that. "God, I hope not. That sounds really disgusting." She shook her head slightly as she stared down into the hole. She thought a bit about what Dean had said, thinking it over. Well, he could be half right. Perhaps this thing did munch on the man's brain but because of no obvious wounds, it likely did it from the inside. "If that were the case, Dean, there would've been an entry wound of some kind. But, then again, this thing sounds like it works from the inside to the outside, like some sort of parasite. So, you may be half right about this, probably." It being a parasite, possibly, was just as bad as it possibly being a brain-eating monster of some sort. Whatever this thing was, Riley honestly wanted no part of it near her person. God, let this monster be anything but a parasite and fucking zombie because she ain't having that mess, nope. Fuck that shit.

"Looks like there's only room for one," Dean stated as he straightened up, no longer crouching by the hole. Turning off his flashlight, he maneuvered underneath the police tape and he approached a nearby coil of flimsy rope. "You wanna flip a coin?" he asked Sam as he glanced back towards him. In his mind, either Sam or himself was going down there. He didn't want either of the girls going down the hole, for both slight overprotective reasons and for no apparent reason. After hearing Sam's protest about going down the hole when they didn't know what was down there, Dean smirked at him. "Alright, I'll go if you're scared." He walked back over to the sinkhole with the coil of flimsy rope in his right hand. "Scared?" he asked, his attention only on Sam.

"Flip the damn coin," Sam stated as he stared at Dean. To his right, Riley and Selena were eying both brothers in two different ways; Riley had an annoyed expression on her face because she found this to be completely ridiculous and she was very close to just hopping down into the hole yolo-style, and Selena had her head tilted to the side, a look of slight confusion and interest on her face as she temporarily watched. Dean, standing to Sam's left, let out a chuckle as he moved back underneath the police tape and he moved the rope into his left hand as he dug his right hand into his jean's pocket to get a coin out. He tossed the coin into the air but Sam caught it, demanding that he was the one to enter the hole. "I'm going."

As the brothers slightly argued about who was going into the hole of uncertainty, Riley rolled her eyes at them and she turned to look at Selena, prepared to speak her opinion about the brothers' idiocy before she would hop into the hole, putting herself at risk of getting harmed. However, she immediately let out a yelp as she saw Selena jump into the hole without a rope and without warning; Selena had done exactly what Riley had planned on doing. Cross between being surprised at Selena's actions and being worried since she wished she had been the one to place herself into potential danger, she quickly looked over at the brothers again to see Sam wrapping the rope around his waist. "Guys!" she exclaimed to try and grab their attention. Both brothers stopped what they were doing, which was bickering, and Riley threw out her arms. She pointed towards the hole. "Selena jumped in." She probably should had said that in a more frantic way instead of calmly but hey, it did the trick either way.

Both of the Winchester brothers exclaimed at the information, yelling what as they both looked towards where Selena had once been standing. After seeing that Selena was no longer there (which confirmed Riley's words), both of them looked down into the hole with Riley and Dean pulled out his flashlight again, shining it back down the hole. There she (Selena) was, chilling at the bottom of the hole. It would be a lie if one said that none of them were panicked because all three of them were kind of panicking. "What the hell, Selena?!" Dean yelled. Why he was the first to speak of Selena's actions, who knows? "You could get yourself killed! You don't know what's down there! Are you hurt?!" Funny how he and Sam had both been willing to put themselves in potential danger that could or could not lead to death, and now, both of them were panicking about Selena potentially getting harmed or killed.

Conveniently, Selena was unharmed from the fall and she appeared to be in entirely one piece after being down there for a few seconds or so. Only harm being done was the dirt getting all over her clothing, sort of. "I am quite alright," Selena answered immediately, bringing some comfort to all of them as she spoke loud enough for them to be able to hear her. She looked around the hole, not really seeing much since it was mainly dark. "I cannot see much, it's quite dark." Seconds later, Dean's flashlight landed on her head and she gripped her head as the flashlight rolled into her lap. "Umm, ow. That rather hurt, you know." She looked up the hole to see Dean smiling apologetically as she rubbed her head; he had accidentally, but coincidentally, dropped it. Picking it up from where it landed (in her lap), she shined the light around in the hole. There really wasn't much to see down there, minus all the dirt and a few dead insects. "Nothing seems to be amiss down here, everyone. Apart from there being very little space and several deceased beetles." She looked back up towards where she came from, still seeing the three currently semi-panicked hunters in view. "Should I pick up one? Perhaps there may be something peculiar about it. It could even be some sort of lead to what we are dealing with here." Unlike most females, Selena wasn't afraid to touch an insect, especially dead ones since they couldn't do any kind of harm.

Sam (and Dean, and Riley) sighed in relief at last, almost entirely calm again. He (Sam) removed the rope from around his waist and he was prepared to toss it down the hole. He, and the others, weren't about to take any chances of Selena suddenly being attacked down there without any sort of means of escaping. "Yeah," he answered Selena. Down below, Selena picked up one of the dead beetles and she kept it firmly in her grasp. "I'm tossing the rope down," he informed her before he began lowering the rope. That was enough excitement for one day…

~(Approx) Between March 20th-28th, 2006; Oklahoma~

When Selena was out of the hole, Riley spent the next three minutes squeezing her to death (almost quite literally) as she told Selena how much she had been worried before she spent two minutes searching for any injuries that Selena may or may not had obtained, also while telling Selena how much she had been worried. After those five minutes went by with the Winchester brothers watching with amusement and relief, Riley headed to her vehicle while Selena returned to the Impala with Dean and Sam, getting into the backseat as usual. Surprisingly, none of the workers had even noticed all of the yelling that had commenced when Selena had dropped down the sinkhole. She would had been shit out of luck if she had been alone because she would had been stuck down there (and probably would've died, also, maybe).

Whilst on the road, Selena shifted into the middle seat of the backseat and she leaned forward, her mind off of potential road hazards as she held out her palm to Sam, showing him the beetle. Sam carefully took the dead beetle from Selena and placed it into his open right palm, and he began to look at it, trying to spot any signs of abnormality it may have. Dean glanced over at the beetle in Sam's hand and he began to speak, sharing his disinterest in the discovery. "So, you found some beetles in a hole, in the ground. That's real shocking, Selena." While he was happy to know that she was alive and very much well, he believed that the little trip inside the hole had not been worth the effort since all that was found was some dead beetles. Big whoop.

Selena frowned as she sat back into her seat, buckling up afterwards for safety measures. "Must you be such a smartass, Dean Winchester?" In the front seat, Dean's eyes widened in surprise since he hardly ever heard her swear and Sam smiled to himself, amused. Selena went onward with an explanation of what she had seen. "There were no tunnels, no sort of tracks. There was no evidence of any other creature having been down there. Normally, certain beetles eat dead meat but perhaps these ones had a, um, kink for something fresh. I found, at least, ten of them down there but maybe there had been more than that originally." She was almost entirely certain that these insects had something to do with Dustin's death. She didn't see any other reason as to why she had found them in that hole. If they had been there just to be there, there would had been many more types of bugs, such as worms for instance.

Dean shrugged slightly as he drove, shaking his head a bit. "I don't know. It sounds like a stretch to me." He still wasn't very sure about this. These were just bugs. What could bugs do to someone? Nothing, if there were very little amounts of said bugs (and if said bugs weren't poisonous or deadly). Sure, it was possible that a lot of beetles could have killed Dustin (which was the case) but that wasn't possible (it was very possible, apparently, but he didn't know that yet). Travis would've noticed a few, or a ton, of beetles on his dead friend but he did not mention any sort of bug at all. Therefore, it couldn't be bugs that caused his death. Right? That had to be right, right?

Sam seemed to be on Selena's side with this, agreeing that perhaps this (the beetles) may had been the cause of Dustin's death. "Well, we need more information on the area, the neighborhood. Whether something like this has ever happened before." Can't be too careful, you know? Can't just assume that something like this couldn't be the cause of what happened. As Dean drove the Impala through the town, something caught his eye. There was a sign for an open house on the sidewalk, towards the right of the Impala and it was decorated with several red balloons. Many vehicles were parked on the edge of said sidewalk. "What?" Sam questioned Dean, not seeing the sign since he was paying attention to Dean right now.

"I know a good place to start," Dean stated as he continued driving, only slower now. Sam looked towards the passenger window, looking through it to see the next sign that they were slowly passing by. This sign wasn't decorated with red balloons but the message on it was slightly different, it reading Models Open. New Buyers' BBQ Today!. "I'm kinda hungry for a little barbecue, how 'bout you two?" Dean asked. Sam looked back over at Dean, giving him a knowing look while Selena shook her head in the backseat as she looked at the sign as well, her being well aware of Dean's love of food (especially free food). Dean glanced over at Sam before he quickly glanced towards the backseat at Selena, seeing both of their reactions to his words. "What, we can't talk to the locals?" he asked innocently. Yeah, like he was really thinking about talking to the locals right now.

"I am very certain that your reasoning for wanting to go is actually because of the free food," Selena commented, getting a nod in agreement from Sam. If there hadn't been a sign on display about a barbecue, Dean probably wouldn't had thought to stop by any of these houses in this neighborhood. Well, Sam probably would had suggested it eventually without there being any sort of sign but some time definitely (probably) would had been wasted so it was kind of a good thing that Dean tended to think with his stomach. They could learn some things about this town and neighborhood at the barbecue, by actually speaking with the locals instead of chowing down.

"Of course not," Dean denied. "I'm a professional," he insisted seconds later. Selena hummed in response and Sam responded with a sarcastic right. If Riley had been in the car with them instead of in her own vehicle that followed behind the Impala, her response would had been just as sarcastic as Sam's or perhaps more sarcastic than Sam's response and maybe a tad bit rude as well cause she ain't Riley if she ain't rude in some sort of way. Dean pulled over at the sidewalk a few moments later, parking behind someone's vehicle and, with the plenty of room that was left, Riley parked behind him. The homes of the neighborhood appeared to be very similar with each other, apart from the buildings that were being made still. The grass was entirely trimmed, each lawn having been tended to, and it was as green as it could get. It was actually a bit freaky, to be honest, with all this neatness going on. It even, somewhat, had an I'm a perfect neighbor vibe to it. The four hunters removed themselves from the vehicles and met up on the sidewalk. Riley made a small remark about how Dean should stop listening to his stomach, her having seen the sign and had automatically knew why Dean had pulled over, before the four of them began to walk down the sidewalk, heading towards the open house. "Growing up in a place like this would freak me out. The manicured lawns, the how was your day, honey?. I'd blow my brains out," Dean commented, making light conversation as the four of them grew closer and closer to the house where the barbecue was commencing.

"There's nothing wrong with normal," Sam replied as he placed his hands in his front jean pockets. He had a few years or so with living a normal life and he had enjoyed it quite a bit while it had lasted. He had friends, he had a girlfriend that he had wanted to marry someday, and he had a decent life that had been far better than what it was like beforehand and currently. Everything had been great, it had been perfect. Now, it wasn't so perfect anymore because that normal lifestyle had to be put on hold for now, perhaps permanently because of the supernatural world they lived within. He should had known from the beginning that his life wouldn't always be entirely normal, that the hunting for the supernatural would had came back regardless of what happened.

"Yeah," Riley agreed. Sam didn't have as large of a normal experience as she did, her having most of her life to deal with normalities. "There really isn't anything wrong with living a normal life. My life had been mostly normal, apart from a few minor and large setbacks like my powers, Selena's powers, Selena's mother's side of the family, and a few demon encounters. But other than all of that, it wasn't that bad." She had friends at school, she had many lovers that came and went before she met (and lost) Brian, she had a decent family, and she had a decent life. But honestly, she preferred this life over that one because it was far less boring to hunt things and travel the United States than to go to school and do normal stuff with normal people. Only thing she wanted from her old life was her parents back, but she was never going to get them back until the day she passed on into the afterlife, just like everyone else. She still missed Brian something awful but she no longer held any lingering feelings for him; although, she still was wearing the literal heart necklace he had given her and she was currently subconsciously gripping it in her left hand as she walked.

"I'd take what I've got now over normal any day," Dean commented. He'd gladly choose to hunt monsters over having a totally normal life for various reasons. Reason one, he was raised into this life and apparently, he really enjoyed doing what he was doing so obviously, he'd say this. Reason two, he wouldn't had met the Grant-Piers siblings if he had a normal life all this time. Reason three, a normal life sounded so much more boring than the exciting life of hunting monsters and saving innocent (and sometimes guilty) lives. He lead the three towards the entrance of the house and he knocked on the door. In no time, the homeowner answered the door and greeted them. "This the barbecue?" Dean asked, not repeating the greeting as he looked past the man and into the house. Behind him, Sam and Selena didn't really react to his words but Riley surely did, rolling her eyes at Dean as she released her hold on her necklace.

"Yeah," the homeowner answered as he opened up the door a tad more. "Not the best weather but…" He glanced up towards the cloudy sky before he glanced over at the temporarily rain stained windows. He looked back towards the four and he introduced himself. "I'm Larry Pike, the developer here." He held out his right hand and shook hands with Dean as he glanced around at everyone that was standing in front of him. "And you are…?" he asked, wishing to be introduced in return for his own introduction.

Dean answered the question for everyone, introducing himself first before he introduced everyone else. "Dean." He released his hand from Larry's as he looked over at Sam. "This is Sam." He looked behind him and he pointed towards the females, one after the other as he introduced them last. "Selena and Riley." Finally, Dean looked back at Larry with a friendly smile. Behind him, Riley was kind of fuming about the fact that she had been last to be introduced by Dean to the man. What the hell happened to their little friendship that had developed finally? Did that vanish? No, it didn't but Riley apparently thought it did because she was overreacting for some weird reason. Who knows why she does what she does.

Larry shook hands with Sam as he (Larry) nodded slightly and he (still Larry) waved somewhat at the females with his free hand. He stared at all of them as he lowered his hands when the greetings were over with. "Sam, Dean, Selena, Riley," he said, looking at each of them as he said their name. "Good to meet you." His attention locked on only Sam and Dean after that, which could only mean that good things were about to happen. "So, you are interested in Oasis Plains?" he asked with a smile. Dean answered politely while Sam nodded and the girls didn't really do anything in response except stared, Riley staring boredly (and she looked aggravated) and Selena staring curiously. "Let me just say, we accept homeowners of any race, religion, color, or sexual orientation," he told them.

All of them reacted differently to that. Dean had nodded once before the words registered in his brain and he looked horrified, very disturbed by the man's assumption of him and Sam. Sam looked at Larry with a what expression before he started smiling, amused by what just happened and he shook his head slightly. Riley's eyes had widened for a split second at the words she heard and she started snickering, not caring if Larry had been speaking about her and Selena too with those last words he had said because she didn't give a shit about that sort of assumption; she just thought it was hilarious that the man thought Dean and Sam were together, and that they were gay or bi. Selena tilted her head in confusion, not towards what the man was talking about but from the man believing the brothers to be a couple. "We're brothers," Dean commented, setting things straight right then and there. "And they're sisters," he added seconds later as he pointed behind him, getting that straight as well in case the man had believed the sisters to be together.

Larry lowered his head in slight apology, looking slightly embarrassed about assuming what he had assumed. He didn't speak just yet because Sam started explaining a lie to him. "Actually, Selena and I are just helping the newly weds pick out a home." Immediately, not only did Dean and Riley begin blushing but both of them became uncomfortable because of the lie. Sure, both of them liked any sort of lie that implied them being together romantically but a lie about them being married to each other? That was a bit much for both of them. Truth be told, Dean had some commitment issues (he dated, sure, but those relationships never lasted very long) and Riley just never wanted to get married because that would mean having to sleep with one man for, well, forever (even though, dating someone would result in the same thing and additionally, she hadn't even slept with anyone for a long while because she was chasing after a certain someone). If the two of them ever actually got together, it was likely that the relationship would either not last very long or it would last forever but without actual marriage happening.

"Mhm," Selena hummed in agreement with Sam's lie. She clapped her hands together as a large smile appeared on her face. "It is kind of our late wedding gift to them. Half of it, anyway." She was all in for this lie, her being the biggest shipper of Dean and Riley. She truly believed that they deserved each other and she hoped that one day the idiots would realize that the feeling between them was mutual. It was kind of getting ridiculous with how the two were so oblivious of what was so obvious to everyone else (apart from strangers like Larry). Dean and Riley would definitely get together in the future, just probably in the far future since they both were so oblivious to obvious things.

Larry smiled at them. "Great, great. Come on in." He stepped aside and the four of them entered the house. Closing the front door, Larry moved past the four hunters and he began to lead them towards the backyard. On their way there, Sam had moved to be beside Selena as Riley moved to be beside Dean so that the lie could be more realistic. Upon entering the backyard, the four hunters eyed all of the people that were gathered around. Everyone was either walking around, chatting, or eating. After Sam mentioned something that Larry had stated earlier about himself being a developer, Larry began to explain things as they walked through the backyard together. "Eighteen months ago, I was walking this valley with my survey team. There was nothing here but scrub brush and squirrels." Larry turned to face the hunters but continued moving, walking backwards. "And you know what, we built such a nice place to live that I actually bought into it myself. This is our house. We're the first family in Oasis Plains." Larry stopped walking as he slightly turned, causing the four hunters to stop walking as well and the man introduced them to his wife, who he had nearly backed up into. "This is my wife, Joanie."

After the four hunters shook hands with Joanie, Selena began to zone out of the conversation that was occurring. She just wasn't fully engaged with it and her mind was on something else, more important matters like how come a bug killed Dustin and where did the mysterious entity in her head go. Both of these matters made her wonder about things. Could there possibly be some kind of bug-like monster that killed Dustin? Would it kill more? Who would it kill next? Was it targeting certain people? Was that entity in her head real or had she just imagined it all this time? Was she really doomed to meet her end because of the Winchesters? She blinked out of her thoughts as she zoned back into reality, coming to realize that Larry had walked off and some woman with black hair in a ponytail, and professional clothing, had walked up to them. The woman hadn't been in front of them long, apparently, since she was introducing herself as Lynda Bloome. However, before Selena could even think about trying to focus on the conversation to be polite, something caught the corner of her eye and she turned her head towards the left, looking around Sam since he kind of got in the way; what she had seen was someone moving and they had moved to be where they couldn't be seen unless Selena looked around Sam (cause, as said, he was in the way). Her eyes widened, unable to believe the sight she was seeing. It couldn't be. Excusing herself from the conversation in a polite manner, she began to make her way towards the person she had recognized and she was silently hoping that her suspicions were correct. Was that Juliet that she had seen?

Selena tapped on the bare shoulder of the person she had seen (the person was wearing a crop top) and the person turned around, revealing themselves to indeed be Juliet Grant. Juliet's expression went from curiosity, because someone wanted her attention and she wanted to know what they wanted, to happiness, because her little look-alike sister was standing right in front of her. Without a word and mainly with just a squeal of delight, Juliet wrapped her arms around Selena and gave her a big hug as she smiled brightly from how happy she was. She had a feeling that Selena would end up there. How did Juliet get this sort of feeling? Well, she had finally decided that it was time to visit Riley and Selena, to return the visit that they had given her several months ago so she had started looking up random things that the two could possibly be working a case at and the only one that sounded supernatural enough for them was the odd case of Dustin dying within minutes. After she found that, she had came here to the town as quickly as she could and she had been here for about, perhaps, a day or two and if she hadn't seen Selena, she would had packed her bags the next day and she would had moved on to the next potential case location until she finally saw either of them (Riley or Selena).

Across from where the half-sisters were reuniting a second time, the Winchesters were eyeing them with a look of surprise on their faces as they temporarily paused the conversation they were having with Lynda. Neither of the brothers had expected to see Selena's other half-sister there, nor did they expect her to look very much like Selena, even though they had been warned that Juliet and Selena looked quite alike (and that both of them looked similar to their shared mother). Riley appeared to be surprised too, but just by Juliet's presence, and a smile soon broke out on her face as she turned towards the brothers, after she had stepped in front of them both as she removed herself from beside Dean. "Looks like you two are finally going to meet Juliet. After you're done with your chatting, of course. See ya real soon, husband and brother-in-law." She smirked at Dean as he made a face at her (and Sam looked amused, like usual with stuff like this) and she turned away from them, strolling over to where Juliet and Selena stood. She was glad that Juliet was here for various reasons, those reasons being that Juliet was unintentionally getting Riley out of a situation that Riley had deemed boring and that Riley actually had kind of missed Juliet. Riley's smile returned, replacing the smirk that she had as she stared at the hugging half-sisters that were now standing in front of her. "Hey, girl scout," she greeted Juliet. "You're a long way from home, aren't ya?" She threw her arms out as Juliet and Selena released their hold on each other, both of them looking towards Riley. "Where the fuck is my hug at, bitch?" Riley questioned in a joking manner. She truly did tolerate Juliet more than Rebecca Grant, the evil bitchy mother of Juliet and Selena.

Juliet rolled her eyes but her smile never faded. She pulled Riley over to her and she gave her a hug. To top it all off, she spun Riley around just because she felt like it and Riley laughed a bit before Juliet sat her down, Juliet once again having silently proven that she was stronger than Riley in physical strength (Riley, on the other hand, was stronger than Juliet when it came to using supernatural powers). Juliet was laughing a bit, too, with Riley after this little exchange they had and Selena was smiling at them both, pleased that all three of them were together again. "I was hoping to find you both here," Juliet told them as she looked between them. "I had to temporarily use the mind of a hunter to locate you two and I was beginning to think I'd have to do that again." Juliet brushed some of her long brown hair out of her face before she crossed her arms over her orange cold-shoulder crop-top. She definitely wasn't wearing the correct outfit for rainy weather, having on some light-blue jean shorts and black ankle-wrapped sandals to go with that crop-top. She certainly was still dressing like she usually dressed. "I think it's safe to say that we need a better way of meeting up with each other in the future so that none of us have to leave it to chance." Although, the difficulty of meeting up with each other was worth it because of the surprise that would come from the meeting and because, well, they'd be meeting up. That definitely, probably, made sense.

Riley scoffed but in a playful manner. "Actually, it's just you who needs a better way of meeting up with me and Selena," she pointed out. "We can find you back at home, just like you said we could. You don't travel around very often so it's not that hard to pinpoint your exact location. Us?" She gestured towards herself and Selena. "Us, on the other hand, we move around too often so you might want to invest in a cellular phone." Juliet laughed because of the way Riley had said that and she nodded, agreeing with this little plan. Riley placed her hands on her hips and she continued speaking. "I'm assuming that since you've found us, you want to hang out but you do know that means you'll have to join in on our case, right? We can't exactly drop everything just to chill with you, you know?" Just because this was a friendly family visit didn't mean that everything needed to be dropped. Although, Riley and Selena both dropped what they were doing to come over here and speak with Juliet, so whoops. Eh, the Winchesters could handle the business here without them, whatever it was.

"Oh, I'm very aware of that," Juliet answered, her laughter long gone as her serious tone came in. "And I don't mind being a part of your case. You'll just have to explain what's going on to me so that I'm at the same pace as both of you." In some ways, Juliet was a mixture of Riley and Selena in personality, but with a mix of her own type of personality in between (she was like Riley in some ways, she was like Selena in some ways, and she was just herself in other ways; it was normal for people to have similar personality traits with each other, some more than others). She began to smirk a bit as she looked past Riley's shoulder, having noticed something at the corner of her eye. "Although, I believe I should be saying that I need to be at the pace of you two and the gentlemen you came with. I saw you walking away from them, Riley, and even if it turned out that you didn't know them, it's very easy to tell that they are hunters because they are out of place like the three of us." She gestured around at their surroundings. "Most of the humans here are wearing something professional looking. We aren't exactly doing that, now are we?" Juliet's smirk grew as she finally got to the point of why she started talking about the Winchesters. "One of them is staring at you like a plate of meat, so there's that." Upon hearing those words, Riley's face heated up and she didn't dare turn around because one, she already knew who it was and two, he would see her blush and he would likely tease her about it later. "From your blush, I'm assuming you do know him and you know him enough that you know who exactly I'm speaking of without having to be looking at him," Juliet finished in continuation, still smirking at Riley. She didn't mention the other Winchester staring because Sam had long stopped, him having gone back to the conversation with Lynda so that he didn't appear rude (it was in his nature to be respectful, mostly).

"Actually, I believe she is just assuming that it is Dean because he seems more likely to stare at her," Selena replied to Juliet since Riley appeared to be too shy to answer all of a sudden. She looked over at Riley before speaking further. "It really is Dean, so you were correct on your assumption," she informed Riley, looking back over at Juliet afterwards. She had been able to see that it was indeed Dean who was staring because Selena was standing in between Juliet and Riley (somewhat) and she had seen him staring at Riley from the corner of her eye when she had turned to look towards Riley. She didn't really agree with Juliet's wording of how he was staring at Riley, though; from what she had seen for the few seconds she had looked at him from the corner of her eye, Dean looked like he was curious about the conversation he couldn't hear more than he looked like he was longing for Riley. She could be wrong, though. "I am not surprised that he is the one staring at her. I believe he quite likes her more than he lets on," Selena told Juliet, stating her thoughts on the matter. Juliet stared at her curiously and Selena decided to mention something else. "He is the male that Riley was fretting over the last time we saw you," she revealed. Around them, the barbecue was still commencing but no one, except Dean at this point, seemed to be paying any sort of attention towards the three females. Riley, it was likely she wasn't even hearing what Selena was talking about because she was too busy blushing and thinking about how embarrassed she was to be blushing so much.

Juliet started smirking again as she looked back at the still blushing Riley. "He's the guy? Seriously? Girl, I don't even blame you for that because he is a fine piece of meat." She let out a purr, as if she were a kitten. Riley just blushed more and she avoided eye contact this time, feeling more embarrassed by the fact that she could easily turn into some blushing shy school girl whenever she was around Juliet for too long; Juliet just had that way about her that just made Riley lower her defenses. Juliet glanced over Riley's shoulder again to see Dean speaking with Sam before seeing Dean starting to walk off towards the house. Juliet stopped paying attention to Dean by that point, though, because Sam had caught her full attention this time around. "And who is the fine glass of water that Dean walked away from?" she asked Riley and Selena, her eyes remaining on Sam as she watched him listen to Lynda. She, if she was honest to anyone and to herself, found Sam to be more attractive than Dean. She wasn't gonna do anything about that, though. These guys were friends with Riley and Selena, not to mention that one of them was claimed by Riley already, so they were off-limits to Juliet and she didn't mind that at all. She simply just liked talking about how nice people looked and she occasionally liked bedding some of those people. However, the latter wouldn't be happening this time it seems; she had some decency in her unlike her mother, unwilling to use these boys as a means for pleasuring herself because the two of them knew her friend (Riley) and her sister (Selena).

"That is Sam, the younger brother of Dean," Selena stated without needing to look towards him. Additionally, of course she would be the one to give Juliet the information that she wanted. Selena tended to give out information, even when she shouldn't give out the information; that was a rarity, though, and it only tended to happen when she was around someone she felt very comfortable with, such as Juliet, the Winchesters, or Riley. "We met both of them, officially, during a Wendigo case and it turns out that they are searching for their father, so we wanted to help them. They are additionally searching for a creature that killed their mother and Sam's girlfriend. Sam has nightmares about that sometimes but I believe that he can overcome them." She was probably revealing too much information but she didn't want to leave Juliet out on anything. Well, she planned on never telling Juliet about her own nightmares but other than that, she'd tell Juliet everything. There was no need to get her worked up over nothing. It probably was nothing to worry about…

"Selena," Riley growled as she looked at her. It appeared that she was back to normal, no blush in her cheeks and her shyness no longer around. "That was something that Sam should've told her, if he ever wanted to. It wasn't your secret to tell." Selena frowned but she nodded in understanding since she did tend to reveal things that someone else should've revealed. Riley sighed, feeling bad for upsetting her younger sibling. "Sorry. Just try to keep certain things on the down low next time, okay?" Selena perked up immediately and she nodded happily, making Riley half-smile. Some things will never change. Well, Riley hoped they wouldn't. Also, she wasn't looking forward to letting Juliet know about Selena's nightmares that had been occurring and she was opting to just not tell her about them at all. Hell, there were a lot of things that she didn't want Juliet knowing about and all those things involved Selena in some sort of way. She felt that Juliet would end up taking drastic measures to ensure Selena's future survival if she learned about what has happened since the last time they had seen her. For now, Riley chose to just leave Juliet in the dark about Selena's problems. None of them needed a pissed off, super protective immortal being on their hands.

"That's interesting," Juliet stated, referring to what Selena had said about the two of them meeting Dean and Sam officially. She appeared to be ignoring everything else that Selena had told her, but for good reason since she, apparently, wasn't supposed to know about it, which was why she chose to pretend like she hadn't heard anything else. Additionally, she should had guessed that the two handsome men (Dean and Sam) were brothers. "Not that I'm surprised since I'm sure that you both meet interesting people while on the road." She looked at Riley again, smiling instead of smirking this time. "Anyway, around the time I heard about Dean, I should had known that the man you had eyes for was a hunter. You haven't fallen for anyone since Brian and for good reason. That new handsome slice of pizza of yours looked like he could handle some ugly beasties so good for you, girl. I say that he is a definite keeper and I will kill you if you're stupid enough to let him out of your grasp." In more understandable words, Riley hadn't fallen for anyone after Brian because anyone worthy of her falling in love with just happened to not be hunters, which made them more at risk of getting killed by something supernatural while being around someone who was kind of supernatural themselves. With Dean, he was more likely to handle that stuff because he lived with it for a long time so he was more capable of not getting killed by something, making him the perfect kind of man for Riley. Plus, he just seemed like Riley's type from Juliet's point of view and Juliet wasn't even kidding about killing Riley if she was stupid enough to let the man go. Okay, maybe she was halfway kidding about that but seriously, she hoped that Riley would keep Dean in her life because Riley deserved to have some sort of happiness again after all the shit that has happened so far.

"Thanks, I guess," Riley said, not even trying to deny anything. How could she? She made it entirely obvious that she has some sort of feelings for Dean. She still wasn't entirely sure what those feelings were exactly. She kind of still believed that it was lust more than it was the beginnings of her falling in love again but she just really wasn't entirely certain about that just yet. Additionally, she quite agreed with what Juliet had said, on some level. She agreed that Dean was indeed very handsome, even though she believed that Juliet's way of saying that was kind of weird, and she agreed that Dean was the kind of person that any woman should never let go of because he was indeed a keeper since he had all the right assets of a perfect imperfect man. Sure, Riley constantly wished that Dean could be hers and that she could be his but realistically, she didn't see how that would work out because of the life they were living and because they'd be going separate ways eventually after their mess was sorted out at last. If she could have anything at all, she was just hoping that she'd see him occasionally after they finally split apart, whenever that was and sadly, she believed that time would be soon because they were getting nowhere close to finding the creature or John Winchester whilst sticking together. It was likely that they'd have better luck with that if they went separate ways and kept contact via a cellular phone.

Juliet, Riley, and Selena continued onward with their conversation, but thankfully, that conversation steered away from the unimportant talk of relationships to the important talk of what was happening with the current investigation. While Juliet was being informed of what was occurring within this newest case that she had inserted herself into, Dean and Sam were actually getting some things done. Well, actually, Dean was getting some things done while Sam was just keeping someone occupied because Dean had eased himself out of that situation. Dean wasn't doing much, though, apart from getting a little bit of information out of Larry while Larry was showing him around the house. Sam, he was just stuck listening to Lynda go on and on about how nice the steam showers were. Thankfully, due to Sam looking everywhere but at Lynda, he was able to get out of the conversation when he spotted a tarantula crawling towards Lynda's left hand that was rested on the table beside them and he gently cupped the spider into his hands (after he politely excused himself from the conversation while also impolitely shoving Lynda away from the table). Nearby, a young boy with short brown, maybe black, hair was staring at Sam with slumped shoulders, indicating that he had placed the spider onto the table on purpose in an attempt to scare someone. Upon returning the pet spider to the young boy, Sam learned that the boy's name was Matthew and that Matt was the son of Larry.

In no time, Larry returned outside with Dean and he quickly maneuvered his son away from both brothers, walking him back towards the house. After seeing the way Larry and Matt interacted with each other, Sam looked towards Dean and an argument nearly broke out between the brothers because while Sam stated that the relationship between Larry and Matt was very similar to the one he had with their father, Dean greatly disagreed with that. The argument didn't occur, though, thanks to Sam because he decided to change the subject. "Whatever. How was your tour?" he asked as he rolled his eyes. He stared at Dean, waiting for an answer and at the corner of his eye, he saw Juliet, Riley, and Selena heading towards them. He was curious to find out what Juliet was like and he was kind of hoping that she turned out to be as kind as he heard she was. In fact, he was expecting nothing but good things to happen once she was officially introduced to him and Dean.

"Oh, it was excellent. I'm ready to buy," Dean said with fake enthusiasm, giving Sam a look afterwards. Sam laughed for a short period of time, shaking his head once. Dean opened his mouth to say more but Sam nodded towards the females that were now standing right behind him. Dean turned around and he couldn't help that he eyed Juliet suspiciously the moment he laid eyes on her. He stepped back to be standing beside Sam, his eyes still on Juliet. "You must be Juliet, the full-on immortal half-sister." He was suspicious of her for a reason, two reasons actually; she was immortal, which made her nearly impossible to kill based on what he learned from Selena, and she had a power of her own, just like Selena did. He just couldn't recall what that power was, if Selena had even revealed that to him and Sam at some point.

Juliet nodded, placing her hands together (lowly) in front of her. "Yeah, that would indeed be me. I wasn't aware that either of you knew about that little fact." She side-eyed Selena, a smile on her lips as she knew that it had to have been Selena who had revealed matters to the Winchesters. Selena's sheepish smile confirmed that assumption of hers. She looked back towards the brothers. "Knowing Selena, she must've told you both lots so I must say this. If you believe me to be anything like my horrid mother, you are sadly mistaken because I'm far much kinder than she is and if you believe me to be dangerous, you are once again mistaken because unlike my mother, I adore humans and I would never cause harm to anyone unless I have a very good reason to do so. Lastly, there's no need for introductions because I'm aware that you," she looked at Dean, "are Dean," she looked at Sam next, "and Sam Winchester." She grinned at them both. "It's a pleasure to meet you." She didn't give them time to respond, though. "I would like to suggest that we skip over the small talk and go straight to what's important, which would be the case the four of you were working on before I showed up and I'm willing to lend a hand since it's the only way I'll be able to spend time with Riley and Selena. Are there any questions before we get serious about things?" She had gone between formal and informal in just that one introduction, just about showing off the entirety of her personality.

Sam half smiled and he shook his head. "None at all. It's a pleasure to meet you too." He held his right hand out to her for a handshake and she accepted it with her own, the two of them shaking hands. Juliet smiled at him and she nodded slightly in acknowledgement of what he said. Sam dropped his hand to his side after he released his grip on Juliet's hand. He could see the difference between Selena and Juliet, just from that one exchange (her introduction, not the handshake). It was easy to tell that Juliet wasn't entirely formal like Selena tended to be. Apart from that, Juliet seemed to have a similar personality to Riley's but Juliet had a rather nicer, more polite version of that personality. Because of this, Sam was kind of looking forward to working with her on this case. The more, the merrier.

"Yeah, it's a real pleasure," Dean said in a dull tone. He didn't give her a handshake like Sam, completely glossing over that. The woman said no small talk and no introductions needed so that was good news to him since he didn't care all that much for either with this woman. She was someone new, someone he needed to be cautious about. He really wished that he could tell her to fuck off but he couldn't say that to a woman and also, she'd probably throw him across the world. Plus, she was the half-sister of Selena so that was a third reason why he couldn't tell Juliet to go away. Despite what she said and what Selena told him, he was still very cautious because he didn't know her and he wasn't sure what exactly she was capable of doing to anyone, though he did have an idea in mind about that. He turned to Sam and he began to speak about the matter of the case. "So, you and Selena might be onto somethin'," he stated. Sam looked over at him and the three females placed their attention on him as well. "Looks like Dustin Burwash wasn't the first strange death around here. About a year ago, before they broke ground, one of Larry's surveyors dropped dead while on the job. Get this, it was from a severe allergic reaction to bee stings."

Riley let out a sigh. "So more bugs, huh?" She wasn't a large fan of bugs, if she was honest. Bugs were annoying as shit. She had been very willing to jump down that one hole just to see if there was a clue but she hadn't really thought about bugs being in it. She was really glad she hadn't jumped down there like Selena. She would've had a fit seeing those dead beetles. Like, not that she was scared of them or anything, but they just were gross and she would've felt like a million of them were on her person if she just looked at one. She felt like that now, actually, since she was thinking about it. She shifted uncomfortably on her feet as she waited for Dean to answer, even though she really didn't need to hear him respond. All Dean would do was just confirm what she didn't want. She twisted her ring as she waited anxiously for what she didn't want to hear.

Dean nodded. "More bugs."

"That's fucking great," Riley sarcastically remarked. "I wanted that to be a thing." She looked over at Selena, pointing at her while speaking sternly. "No more jumping into random sinkholes, okay? No more." Selena nodded in agreement. Immediately after Riley had said that, she inwardly panicked because she and Selena hadn't told Juliet about that. She quickly looked over at Juliet, seeing her confused expression. "It's just an expression," she lied to Juliet, not wanting to make her go into a random unnecessary panic. Dean and Sam both looked at Riley with raised eyebrows but neither of them voiced their thoughts on the matter. "I think we should go now or something. I doubt we'll learn anything else here." Riley didn't even wait for a response, immediately walking away from them as she went back to twisting her ring. This new team effort thing was probably going to end rather badly…

~(Approx) Between March 20th-28th, 2006; Oklahoma~

By the time the four hunters and Juliet left the barbecue, the sky was beginning to darken as night slowly came to existence again. Everyone rode in separate vehicles, following behind one another; Dean and Sam were in the Impala, Riley was in the Audi, and lastly, Juliet and Selena were in the Honda (which was silver and belonged to Juliet, obviously; it was also a car and not a truck). While Riley was stuck with talking to herself during her ride, the Winchester brothers talked about the case a bit more as they referred to their father's journal within their vehicle while the Grant half-sisters spoke about unimportant matters again within their vehicle. Not much was different, apart from Selena being in a different vehicle with someone new to the group and Sam was driving the Impala instead of Dean. Eventually, Dean made Sam pull over on an empty street by a house and after explaining to everyone what he was thinking about (the females had stopped and asked questions about what the hell Dean was thinking), Sam parked the Impala into the empty garage while Juliet and Riley had to park their vehicles inside two other empty garages. In no time, however, the five of them were inside the same building to rest for the night.

Not much of an occurrence happened while they were temporarily grouped up inside the living room; they all just stood around awkwardly, looking around at everything and each other before a few words were finally said. After that very short small talk (which was Selena making a suggestion and Dean agreeing to it), everyone (Juliet excluded) headed upstairs and went their separate ways as they entered various bedrooms. Further into the night, Sam was awakened in a cold sweat by his reoccurring nightmares of Jess burning on the ceiling. Unable to return to sleep in the comfortable bed, he removed himself from it and he made his way out of the bedroom, heading down the hallway and down the staircase to the first floor. He wasn't entirely sure what he wanted to do while he was awake. Maybe a little bit of night wandering since he couldn't sleep? It would just be around the house (the wandering) but it was better than nothing. However, that possible plan flew out the window when his eyes spotted Juliet on the couch within the living room, light shining down on her from the lamp (on the furniture, beside the couch) that she must've turned on at some point in the night. As he silently watched her for a moment, he came to realize that she hadn't noticed his arrival and he also noticed that she was acting very inhuman (she wasn't doing what a human would do; well, a human could do what she was doing but they'd get uncomfortable with it).

Juliet was simply just sitting there, looking at nothing in particular as she remained motionless on the couch. One would think that she'd be reading a book or something to keep herself occupied but nope, she was doing nothing at all except for staring into space and appearing to be not breathing (which was something she didn't need to do anyways but she preferred to do so, breathing that is). She wasn't aware of Sam's presence until the floor creaked slightly (for some reason) when Sam was turning to walk away, him having wanted to leave Juliet to her peace and quiet. She looked over at him, removing her right arm from the couch's arm as she placed both of her hands in her lap (her arm had been propped up and her head had been laying against her hand). Sam didn't acknowledge that she noticed him until she spoke up, making him stop in his tracks. "I take it that you couldn't sleep?" she asked him gently, waiting for him to either respond or to turn towards her (his back was towards her at the moment).

"Uh…" Sam turned back around to face her, shrugging his shoulders a bit. "...Yeah." That basically was the gist of it. It was close to it, anyways; he had been sleeping alright until the nightmare showed its ugly head again and it had awoken him from his once decent slumber. He gestured towards her as he took a few steps closer, stepping back into the living room since he stepped out of it when he was attempting to get away quietly. "You too, huh?" he asked, continuing onward with the conversation. The two of them were wide awake so they'd might as well just talk to each other for a bit, right? It seemed to make sense to him, anyways. Much better than just silently wandering around the house they were squatting in.

Juliet shook her head slightly but a slight smile appeared on her face. "No. I can't sleep at all. I have no need to." The need for sleep was something she'd never feel but she wished that she could. Sometimes, she just wanted to feel like she were a human being and that was something that would never occur because her needs were far different than humans. Those needs were, well, nonexistent for the most part, apart from her need to mate with someone someday, because she wasn't human at all. Humane maybe, but not human. She could easily pretend to need to eat, pretend to need to breathe, and even pretend she could sleep, even though no actual dreaming would ever occur, but she could never be human; she could pretend to be normal easily but she never felt close to being human whenever she did it because she was just too different from them in comparison. She eyed Sam, wondering what his response would be. She had assumed that Selena had revealed everything about Immortal Beings to him, and Dean, but Sam appeared to be a little surprised by the information.

The slightly surprised expression on Sam's face eventually turned into realization. He had heard about that from Selena but he had temporarily forgotten about the fact until now. He wondered what else he had forgotten about Immortal Beings but it wasn't like that mattered since the information was just somewhere at the back of his mind still. He hadn't thought that he'd need to recall any of that shit; at the time of him learning of the species, he was interested (intrigued even) but then his need for finding his father eventually came back and he deemed that new information unimportant to remember for a while. He honestly hadn't ever thought about the possibility of meeting anyone from Selena's mother's side of the family and he kind of regretted deeming them unimportant to remember, mostly (at least he remembered Juliet!). Anyways, he'll probably remember everything he learned from Selena, eventually. "Oh, right. Sorry." He was too tired and too dismayed by his nightmare to care about sounding sincere with his apology. He walked over to the couch and he took a seat beside Juliet, looking down at his hands as he placed his elbows on his legs (he was leaning forward on the couch instead of leaning against it).

"No harm done," Juliet responded, still smiling slightly. She kept her eyes locked on Sam, even when he was no longer looking at her (he was currently looking at his hands). When it appeared that he wasn't going to say anything more to her, she spoke further as her smile vanished. She spoke in a slightly more serious tone. "I can tell that something has been bothering you. It's the reason why you can't sleep. Least, that's what I'm assuming. Would you mind telling me what it is or is it too personal to share with someone you've only just met?" She wanted to be of some use because she had nothing better to do and Sam was Selena's friend. However, if he didn't want to get into details about whatever it was that happened to be bothering him, she was fine with that and she would gladly just keep him company while he was still awake if that is what he wanted instead. Either way, she would be helping, sort of.

"It's not too personal," Sam stated without thinking, answering with no hesitation. He shook his head seconds later, after he realized what he did. "I mean, it is personal but…" He sighed as he placed his hands into his hair. It was both personal and non-personal, sort of. Dean, Riley, and Selena knew about it, which made it not so personal, but Sam had his secrets about it, which made it personal. Because of those reasons, it was kind of hard to give a straight answer about it.

Juliet stared at him curiously, a thought crossing her mind. "Is it about your nightmares?" she asked him after a moment of silence. Sam looked towards her at last, his eyes widening just a bit. Juliet half-smiled at him and began explaining. "Selena informed me of them earlier at the barbecue. She never told me what they were about, not entirely. Riley stopped her from revealing anything further because it was for you to tell only and she's correct about that. It's your business and your choice if you wish for me to know anything or not." She frowned as she noticed how displeased Sam became. "I'm sorry that Selena tends to let things fly from her mouth at the worst times," she apologized on the behalf of Selena. She knew that Selena needed to learn to keep some things private but that was just how Selena tended to be.

Sam released another sigh as he shook his head, looking away from Juliet again, temporarily. "Nah, it's fine. I should've known she'd let that slip." He looked down at his hands again (his hands no longer in his hair) before he looked back over at Juliet. He didn't know what compelled him to do it but he decided to talk about his nightmares, somewhat. It was more like he decided to talk about what had happened, only slightly. "...My girlfriend burned to death because of me. I wasn't there to protect her. I wasn't there to prevent it from happening. I can't stop thinking about it. It won't make up for it but I will find the thing that killed her and end it so that no one else suffers." That was his purpose right now, finding and killing the creature that ruined everything for him. He needed to avenge Jess and he'll do that someday, he hoped. Although, perhaps his first priority was finding his father because he was certain that his father was still searching for the thing himself since the creature had also killed his mother.

Juliet nodded slightly, her eyes remaining on Sam. She half-smiled again, raising her hand to move some of her hair from her face before placing her hand back on her lap. "Sounds to me like you really love this woman. I'm sure she's in a much better place now. No one with a kind heart suffers for eternity after death. I'm certain of this." She gestured towards the ceiling, though she was making emphasis to what laid beyond it. "She's in Heaven with your mother," she stated as Sam glanced upwards, as Juliet gestured. He looked back towards her when she mentioned his mother, a confused expression on his face. Juliet rubbed the back of her head. "Yeah, about that. Selena informed me of that as well." In response, Sam threw his arms out slightly and shook his head while rolling his eyes, his confused expression become an annoyed one. "Yeah, she doesn't exactly know how to keep things entirely quiet. She's not all knowing, after all. Mostly just naive and innocent. Mostly kind and her heart is rather large, so full of life and spirit. That's her biggest weakness, sadly. She's so open to everything. It's truly a mystery how she has managed to remain so innocent thus far, despite her having become a hunter. One would think she'd be corrupted greatly by now." If only she knew that Selena had become corrupted (by the very slightest), thanks to the entity called The Doppelganger that resided deep within her.

Sam nodded as he looked back towards her once more. He released yet another sigh. "Yeah, she's not fazed by much." He was kind of annoyed with Selena for her having revealed so much that he would had rather been a secret to strangers but it was whatever. He couldn't change anything about that. Additionally, he could agree with a lot of things that Juliet was saying. Selena was very innocent and kind hearted, and she really didn't seem too fazed about most things. Well, at least, she didn't seem to show it if she actually was fazed by some matters. He knew that the whole out-of-control incident had gotten to her and that the shapeshifter incident had caused some nightmares to stir up within her but other than that, he didn't believe anything else had fazed her. He didn't know that he was wrong since he was unaware of The Doppelganger as well.

Juliet smiled a little bit as she looked away from Sam finally. "I suppose not. She usually expects things to happen." She began to frown suddenly as she thought back to what caused Riley and Selena to enter this new life. "Apart from what happened to Riley's family. She cried over their deaths for quite some time before she accepted it. My mother was so heartless about it." She shook her head and rolled her eyes as she recalled everything. "Mother is the biggest bitch of them all, forbidding Selena to ever come back home. But she'll change her mind, for all the wrong reasons and it'll happen soon enough." She looked back over at Sam and noted the confusion that returned on his face. She began to explain, figuring that it was only fair to reveal this information to him so that nothing would come as a surprise if Rebecca Grant, the mother of herself and Selena, suddenly came looking for Selena in the future. "Mother wishes for a new generation of Immortal Beings. I won't give her that because I don't wish for mating with someone I don't love and she can't force me into it because fighting amongst the family normally results in unnecessary drama and violence that never solves anything. With Selena, she'd have better chances of getting what she wants, even if the new generation is full of hybrids, because Selena isn't one to say no very often to her. The only time Selena refused to accept what Mother said was towards anything regarding Riley and her side of the family, and anything to do with the life of a hunter, which was why Mother told her to never return home in the first place. I thought you'd like to know all of that, in case she came looking for Selena someday."

Sam frowned. "That won't happen." He wish he could say that about the possibility of Rebecca showing up but he was mostly referring to Selena possibly being taken advantage of. He didn't like the thought of that, of Selena being forced to mate with someone just because her mother instructed her to. He couldn't see Selena saying yes willingly, if Rebecca were to show up, because he knew her well enough to know that she didn't want to be tied down to someone. He could only see her saying yes if she or someone were threatened and if it came down to that happening, Sam wasn't sure if he, Dean, and Riley could be able to do anything about it. He really wished that Juliet hadn't mentioned this but he was also glad that she gave him a head's up. He'd have to inform Dean and Riley about that later on or whenever he got the chance.

"Maybe," Juliet responded as she shrugged. "I believe you should get some rest, Sam Winchester. We have a long day ahead of us tomorrow." She waved her hand, shooing him before he could even open his mouth to respond and he raised an eyebrow at her in tired amusement. "Go on," Juliet said as she smiled at him. "Nightmares can only keep you awake for so long before they begin to be ineffective. I can't say I know from experience but I've heard such from humans. So, try to get some sleep, night owl." Sam stared at her for a moment before he nodded, slowly standing up with a hint of a smile on his face. Wishing her a good night even though she couldn't sleep, Sam began to head back to the bedroom he was staying in. Juliet really wasn't all that bad after all…

~(Approx) Between March 20th-28th, 2006; Oklahoma~

That next morning, Dean went off to shower while Juliet, Riley, Sam, and Selena silently hanged out in the living room, the four of them waiting for some sort of anything that would give them something to do that morning. No small talk was made as they waited because research required focus and sometimes silence, Selena being on a laptop to see if any information could be found online (she didn't find anything). Not too long after Dean had gone off to shower, a police call came in through the scanner. After Sam went off to inform Dean of the news and after Dean had gotten dressed again, the five of them headed off to the scene of the crime in their two separate vehicles (Juliet left her car behind and had joined the Grant-Piers siblings in the Audi).

When the two vehicles pulled up by the home of Lynda Bloome, a body bag (with Lynda's corpse inside) was being lifted from a stretcher and it was being placed into a vehicle by some men. A few police cruisers were parked along the sidewalk and Dean parked the Impala behind one of them while Riley parked the Audi behind the Impala. Dean and Sam exited the Impala, pulling out and opening up two umbrellas, rain pouring down from the cloudy sky. Juliet, Riley, and Selena stepped out of the Audi (which finally had a working electric roof this time so no more plastic pool covers over the vehicle on rainy days and no more of the seats getting rained on), none of them opening up umbrellas because none of them had one. Grouping up together, Sam silently gestured for Selena to get underneath the umbrella with him but she shook her head with a smile on her face, happy with getting rained on. Sam, then, gestured for Juliet to do such and unlike Selena, she accepted and she got underneath the umbrella with him, saying a quiet thank you to him which he returned with a nod and a small smile. Dean rolled his eyes at this little kind gesture but found himself eyeing Riley for a moment as the five of them began to head over to Larry. As they slowly approached the older man, Dean moved to walk beside Riley, getting her underneath the umbrella with him and he found himself smiling when Riley looked at him with a smile on her face.

When the five of them reached Larry, he spoke to them with hesitation and he revealed to them that Lynda had passed away. Unable to give them an answer when asked how Lynda had died, he excused himself from the conversation and he walked away from them, heading towards the building and towards the officer that gestured him over. Immediately after Larry was out of hearing range, the five agreed that they needed to get inside the house to see if it was another bug related death. A short time later when the five had maneuvered themselves out of sight and when the police cruisers had began to leave the area, the five began to climb over a fence, up the side of the house, and through Lynda's bedroom window. The bedroom was rather small in size so it was a bit crowded with the five of them standing in it; Dean had stepped over the outline of Lynda's dead body that was drawn on the carpet to make some room for the females to get inside and Sam helped each of the females through the window before closing it behind them, each of the females moving away from the window to make more room inside the small bedroom.

Juliet, Riley, and Selena grouped up around the body outline while Dean and Sam stepped to be at the bathroom door. It probably hadn't been the best idea for Selena to have refused shelter from the rain earlier because now, she was very close to being completely soaked from the rainfall while everyone else remained nearly completely dry (all of them got a little wet when climbing to the bedroom since they couldn't exactly carrying umbrellas with them). What made that a bad decision was because a puddle was being made underneath Selena from the water that was dropping from her jacket, shoes, and hair but that probably wasn't gonna cause any worries for them since if anyone came back, they'd probably just think there was a leak that needed to be patched up or something. If anything, they'd only need to worry about Selena getting a nasty cold. As the three females silently stood around watching Dean and Sam, the two Winchester brothers in question were semi-entering the bathroom together; Dean entered while Sam remained just outside the doorway.

Dean crouched down beside a white towel that laid on the floor and he picked it up, dropping it after several dead spiders dropped onto the glass and blood covered floor. Ignoring the loud squeal that came from Riley, he released a sigh and shook his head. "Spiders." He turned his head to look at Sam but Sam wasn't eyeing him or the dead spiders, his attention on Riley. Because of this, Dean looked over at Riley instinctively and he smirked at the sight of Riley jumping around, her hands roaming over her body frantically as if she were trying to brush something off of her. Juliet and Selena stood nearby her, Juliet holding back a laugh while Selena was shaking her head and rolling her eyes. "Somebody's jumpy," Dean commented as he watched Riley, clearly amused by her distress. The gentleman within himself had become dormant after the little gesture of kindness, which explained why he was being like this now.

Riley managed to glare at Dean as she trembled in anxiety, still swatting at her arms. Once she was no longer frantically rubbing her body down, she let out a huff of breath as she attempted to calm down further. "I can't stand spiders. They're gross, ugly, occasionally hairy, and overall deadly," she stated as she glanced downwards to the dead spiders that laid on the bathroom floor. Even though the spiders were dead and the spiders were across the room from her, she was still anxious about a spider suddenly crawling on her. She twisted her ring anxiously. "Why couldn't it had been ladybugs or butterflies? Spiders are a big fat nope for me." She looked away from the spider corpses and she looked elsewhere, looking for any signs of living spiders as she grew more anxious, twisting her ring more furiously. "You ain't about to see me getting anywhere near that bathroom. No siree. Keep them demon spawns away from my person and we'll be peachy keen."

Sam shook his head slightly, amused. "Riley, they're dead. You have nothing to worry about." He shouldn't be so amused by this because he had fears of his own (which he wasn't planning on revealing any time soon) but he couldn't help himself. The way Riley had been jumping around was hilarious and her patting herself down topped it all off. Actually, her comments on spiders may had been what topped it all off. He didn't release out a chuckle, though, despite how funny he thought it was. At the very least, it had made him start smiling.

Juliet was struggling to hold in her giggles and she released them as she spoke, revealing that she wasn't always so level-headed. "Yeah, Riley. You're completely safe. They're very dead." She hadn't laughed, or even giggled, in a very long time and the fact that she was doing such now meant something. She enjoyed the company of others, especially Riley and Selena. Plus, she was kind of the reason why Riley flipped out. She may or may not had slightly touched Riley's bare hand when the dead spiders were uncovered, which may or may not had caused Riley to think that something was crawling on her. It definitely had been an accident, though, and a very lovely accident at that. Perhaps this hunting thing wouldn't be as bad as she thought it would be.

Riley frowned as she eyed the floor, the walls, and the ceiling. "Well, I don't feel like I'm safe. I feel like I'll be attacked at any moment." Hearing Dean and Sam snort, she looked over at them quickly and she glared at the both of them. She completely dismissed Juliet's own laughter, however, for some reason. "Oh, shut up, Winchesters. I look forward to the day where I can make fun of your fears." Riley could've made fun of Dean that one time but she didn't like heights, which was similar to his fear of flying, so she couldn't really say anything negative to him about it. Only good thing about that fear of theirs, the two of them had clinged to each other for dear life when the plane was beginning to go down because of that one demon (and thankfully, Sam and Selena had saved everyone's life with their teamwork). Riley wouldn't mind having another one of those moments, as long as they both survived at the end like that last time (referring to the phantom plane incident still). With Sam, she still didn't know what his fear was but she'd find out eventually. Probably. She hoped it was something she could make fun of.

"Where could the spiders have come from?" Selena asked as she shifted slightly, stepping out of the small puddle of water she created accidentally (it was the rain's fault, technically, and not her own, though she did refuse to use an umbrella). She looked around the bedroom, her eyes focusing on the corners of the walls. "I can't seem to find any cobwebs that they could have come from." If there were spiders, there usually were cobwebs that came with them. However, these spiders seem to have come out of nowhere and from what it looked like, the spiders had died from something unknown to them; the spiders seemed to had magically appeared since there were no webs in sight and the spiders apparently dropped dead the minute Lynda died. It would had been nice if one had lived, then they would have tested it or something. They could've had some sort of living lead for this case. Only real lead they had right now were the bugs that kept turning up dead at the scenes of the crimes, so at least they knew that bugs were involved for some reason.

"I don't know," Dean answered. He looked over at Sam. "From Spider Boy?" he suggested. Sam had encountered Matt, Larry's son, at the barbecue and the young boy had been trying to prank Lynda with a spider, Lynda now being dead because of a group of spiders. Either this was just a mere coincidence and Matt had absolutely nothing to do with this or Matt had everything to do with this death. Either way, they had some sort of lead now that happened to be living.

Sam sounded angry when he corrected Dean and it caused the three females to eye him curiously. "Matt." He barely knew the boy but apparently, he didn't like how Dean called him Spider Boy. He was certain that it was just a coincidence but since Matt was their only living lead right now, he had to accept the possibility of Matt maybe being involved somehow. "Maybe," he sighed. He didn't like the thought of that but it was a tad odd that he seemed indifferent when normally, he (probably) would've immediately agreed with Dean without any anger in his tone. Very likely, the Winchester brothers would be having some sort of falling out in the very near future.

The five of them didn't remain inside the building for long after that, exiting the way they had came. Getting into their separate vehicles, the Winchesters and the Grant-Piers siblings headed off. Beginning to leave the well-made neighborhood, the five of them drove to the end of the street where some construction was being had. Parking their vehicles at a curb, they watched as Matt exited a bus from across the street (coincidentally, his bus just happened to arrive there just as the Impala and Audi were pulling up to the curb and conveniently, the Winchesters and Grant-Piers siblings had been searching for his whereabouts). Dean and Sam (and Juliet, Riley, and Selena also) noticed that instead of heading to his home, Matt began to head towards the woods that were across the street from where he had been dropped off and obviously, the Winchesters and the Grant-Piers siblings had to follow behind him to see what he was up to. A lead was a lead for a reason.

A few feet behind the young boy, the five of them found Matt standing by a low tree branch. He was making a grasshopper climb onto his hand after he placed his left hand in its path. In his right hand, he was holding a semi-large white box that he was most likely going to place the insect within. He had a large smile on his face, showing how much he seemed to love these bugs that most people disliked greatly. He was close to placing the grasshopper into the box but he stopped when he heard Sam's voice, his attention turning to the five as the grasshopper moved up his jacket arm. "Hey, Matt," Sam greeted softly as he, Dean, Juliet, Riley, and Selena approached Matt, the five of them stopping as soon as they were near the surprised boy. "Remember me?" he asked. Sam couldn't exactly say 'us' instead of 'me' because Juliet, Riley, and Selena hadn't been close by when Sam encountered Matt and Dean didn't exactly get introduced to the boy because Larry had pulled Matt away from them.

"What are you doin' out here?" Matt asked as he eyed the five of them cautiously. He was shocked to see them out there with him because he had thought he was alone. In fact, seeing so many strangers in front of him kind of terrified him for various obvious reasons. One, they could kill him if they wanted to, two, he had to be cautious either way because they were strangers, and three, they really could kill him if they really wanted to.

"Well, we wanna talk to you," Dean told him, standing in between Sam (who was to his right) and Riley (who was to his left). To Riley's left, Selena was standing around as they all were but she wasn't exactly being still since she was twisting her body side-to-side ever so slightly and she rubbed her nose a bit, holding back a sneeze that was coming and going. To Sam's right, Juliet was trying not to stand too still as she too often shifted on her feet.

Matt glanced between Sam and Dean, eyeing the girls quickly afterwards before he looked back towards Sam and Dean. "You're not here to buy a house, are you?" he asked. Dean shook his head, staring the boy down. Matt's smile faded as he went into a slight panic. He raised his left hand, doing this in case he needed to defend himself from them, even though he definitely would've lost if they had, indeed, been thinking about harming him. "W-Wait, you're not serial killers, are you?" he questioned in his panic, hand still raised in self defense. Even if they had been serial killers, they definitely wouldn't be letting him know if he was correct or not cause he'd just be dead. Sam chuckled, a smile forming on his face as Dean cracked a smile at the kid. Selena frowned at this assumption, Juliet let out a scoff, and Riley rolled her eyes as she tried not to smile.

Riley shook her head and Matt appeared to become relieved. "Nah, not them." Matt's eyes widened as his attention turned to her fully. She gestured to herself as she continued. "I am, though. They just follow my every move, doing whatever I ask them to. They're more on the lines of stalkers than serial killers, which the latter I am." Dean let out a snort as his smile slightly grew wider. Selena looked towards Riley with disapproval written all over her face. Juliet was rolling her eyes and smiling. Sam chuckled more, shaking his head at Riley as he turned his head to look in her direction. She caught him staring at her and she stuck her tongue out at him before she spoke again. "Well, you weren't about to just play along so I went for it. Loser." By this point, Matt knew she was joking around and he was half smiling.

Selena continued to frown at Riley. "You should not joke about that, Riley," she stated as Riley looked towards her. "You could had frightened him terribly." Riley scoffed and shrugged, dismissing Selena's words. Matt didn't appear to be frightened to her so it didn't matter. Selena let out a low sigh as she shook her head, frowning still.

Sam shook his head at all of this amusing nonsense, turning his attention back towards Matt. "I think you're safe," he informed the young boy. Matt nodded slightly in acknowledgement as Matt looked at Sam. "Keep an eye out for Riley, though. I think she's plotting something," Sam joked, turning his head back towards Riley as he continued to smile. Riley looked over at Sam again and she glared playfully at him. So now, he had wanted to play along. How dare he.

Juliet let out a giggle as she nodded in agreement, going along with what Sam said. "Yeah, keep an eye on her. She's a schemer." Riley glared playfully at her next but Juliet just continued giggling and smiling. She seriously hadn't thought that hunting would be this amusing. She thought hunting was just dangerous and that hunters had to be constantly cautious but from what she was witnessing, hunting could apparently be fun when one was around the right people. If this was how it always was like, she was glad that Riley and Selena had chose this life but she hoped that when the danger showed up, it wasn't as bad as she always thought it was. Although, clearly, it wasn't so bad since Dean, Riley, Sam, and Selena all were still breathing.

Dean rolled his eyes, his smile fading as Juliet joined in on the fun. She may look like Selena but she wasn't her at all and Dean had no reason to trust her like he trusted Selena, even if Riley and Selena trusted Juliet. Sam even seemed to trust Juliet or he, at least, trusted her enough to have her near him. Dean definitely didn't like that at all and he refused to trust Juliet. How could he trust her? She inserted herself into their investigation and she forced her way into conversations that Dean tried to avoid continuing, but apparently, everyone seemed to love her except for him. He avoided looking towards Juliet's direction since she had spoken last, keeping his eyes on Matt the entire time. "So, Matt, you sure know a lot about insects," he began. Matt responded with 'so' as he shrugged, his attention on Dean in return. "Did you hear what happened to Lynda, the realtor?" Dean asked him, raising an eyebrow. Matt revealed that he only knew about her dying and Dean nodded. "Mm, that's right," he told Matt. "Spider bites," he continued, whispering in an accusing way. Dean certainly was no longer in the mood for playing around.

Sam and Selena both looked towards Dean disapprovingly before they both looked at Matt. Dean, Juliet, and Riley were already looking at Matt, waiting for either a confession or some sort of defense. "Matt, you tried to scare her with a spider," Sam pointed out. He tried not to sound like he was accusing Matt of murder but his choice of words made him sound like he was and that seemed to cause Matt to be a little offended, naturally.

"Wait, you think I had something to do with that?" Matt questioned all of them.

"I do not believe that you did," Selena immediately stated, her frown having remained on her face. She didn't believe that he had done anything. Clearly, this had only been a mere coincidence and perhaps this coincidence would lead them to the actual culprit of this investigation. She constantly tried to come up with what could possibly be causing this but no monster, that she knew of, crossed her mind. She was beginning to believe that this had nothing to do with creatures. Perhaps this had more to do with something entirely different than what she, Riley, and (perhaps) the others were used to.

"Well, of course you don't, Selena," Riley stated as she gestured at Selena, her attention towards her temporarily. "You find most people to be innocent, even when they aren't exactly innocent." A good example of that would be with the shapeshifter but Riley couldn't bring that up in front of Matt because then, all of them would look crazy. There had been other times where Selena believed there was some innocence inside a few other creatures that could speak English but those moments ended badly as well and Riley couldn't mention those moments in front of Matt either. Hell, she probably shouldn't ever mention most of those moments to Juliet.

Juliet stepped forward once, moving closer to Matt. No one seemed to notice how Dean tensed up when she did this and no one noticed how he reached for his weapon that was hidden. Before anyone could even bother noticing what Dean was doing, Dean dropped his hand hesitatingly when Juliet started speaking to Matt. "Ignore them," she said as she gestured towards Riley and Selena. What they were saying wasn't exactly important. "Were you apart of it or not, Matt?" she asked, her tone serious.

Matt shook his head as he stared at all of them, looking back and forth between the five of them as he defended himself. "That tarantula was a joke," he stated firmly. "Anyway, that wouldn't explain the bee attack or the gas company guy." That statement caused all five of them to look at him strangely because they didn't think he'd know about those other two deaths. "There is something going on here. I don't know what but something's happening with the insects. Let me show you something." Matt picked up his backpack that he had placed onto the ground earlier and he began to walk further into the woods. With no other choice, the five followed behind him and only Riley was reluctant about it.

As the six of them strolled through the woods together, Matt placed his new pet grasshopper into the box he had before placing the box into his backpack. Continuing onward with their little journey, Sam moved to be walking beside Matt and he began to ask the young boy questions, ones that concerned Larry (Matt's father). Behind the two of them, Dean and Riley followed close behind while Selena and Juliet were close behind them. When Matt shared with everyone that Larry was, apparently, disappointed in him, Sam's relatable comment annoyed Dean visibly. After learning that Matt was sixteen, Sam decided to give him some advice of sorts. "Well, don't sweat it because in two years, something great's gonna happen. College. You'll be able to get out of that house and away from your dad." It's what happened with him after all of the disagreements he had with his own father. He wanted to break away from this life and he did just that. However, he hadn't planned on reentering this life and yet, here he was, stuck with this same old bullshit again but probably for the rest of his life.

"What kind of advice is that?" Dean questioned. "Kid should stick with his family." He clearly had a different view of this kind of thing, considering he lived through something just like it and he hadn't really agreed with it then either. Juliet, Riley, and Selena could practically feel Dean's annoyance, despite that they could hear the annoyance in his tone when he had spoken. Although none of the girls knew what was going on with the two brothers (Juliet definitely didn't know because she just showed up the day before and Riley, and Selena, didn't know too much about the brothers to begin with, other than the need-to-know stuff), none of them wanted to hear an argument commence between the two idiotic men.

When Sam paused his walking to glare at Dean and when everyone else stopped walking because of that, Riley rolled her eyes and she began speaking to both brothers, annoyed with them both already. She may not know what exactly their back-and-forth thing was about but she knew that they must've dealt with something like this before. Behind her, Juliet and Selena listened quietly. "The kid should do whatever the fuck he wants to do, whether it's in two years or right fucking now," she commented, interrupting the glaring war that probably would've became an argument that she didn't care to hear. "So, both of you morons shut the fuck up already. None of us want to hear any of your bullshit advice because it ain't all about you and what you did during a situation like this. Do your brotherly arguing elsewhere, when you're alone." She looked towards Matt, seeing confusion on his face but she ignored that. "How much further?" she asked him impatiently. He opened his mouth to answer but she interrupted him. "Great. Fantastic. Keep moving forward. The sooner you show us, the better." She wanted to flip her shit, further than she already had. When Matt began moving forward again (out of slight fear) after he looked away from everyone, Riley quickly glared at Dean and Sam before she pushed by Sam, walking behind Matt. Dean, Sam, Juliet, and Selena followed silently behind her.

A few minutes later, the six of them reached a large forest clearing. The many sounds of hundreds of different insects could be heard amongst the trees that surrounded them. Riley appeared to be already calming down from her little random rage fit and Selena was moving to stand beside her when all of them stopped walking. Her head clear, Riley tensed up when she finally realized that a lot of insects were in the area that they were standing in and she immediately grasped onto Selena's arm since Selena was the closest to her. Sam, Dean, Juliet, and Matt remained standing where they were. Altogether, they were looking around at the trees, seeing nothing but hearing everything. "I've been keeping track of insect populations," Matt began to explain. "It's, um, part of an A.P. science class. A lot has been happening. I mean, from bees to earthworms, beetles, you name it. It's like they're congregating here."

"Why?" Dean questioned as he eyed Matt. Matt just shrugged, not knowing what to say since he didn't know much more than what he told them.

"What's that?" Sam asked, pointing towards a dark patch of grass that laid a few feet away from the six of them. After spending a moment of looking at one another, Dean walked by everyone and lead the way to the patch of land that Sam spotted. As they say, curiosity killed the cat.

Upon reaching the area, the six of them discovered hundreds of worms and Riley let out a noise of disgust at the sight (Juliet, Selena, Dean, Sam, and Matt didn't have a problem with the worms, not a visible one anyways). Dean stepped forward, placing his right foot against some of the worms and the worms fell into the ground, creating a small hole that was big enough for a hand to go through. Sharing a look with Sam, Dean picked up a stick and he crouched down beside the hole, poking the stick inside. When he continued poking the stick into the hole, the ground within it suddenly felt hard and he paused, looking back towards everyone that was watching. "There's something down there." He pulled the stick out of the hole and he placed it on the ground. Before he made a move to stick his hand down the hole this time, he looked at Riley. He didn't know why he wanted to warn her but it was likely because of her little fear of bugs and probably just because of that. "Riley, you might not want to continue looking," he warned her, half-smirking. Why she was watching him the entire time was beyond him since she was suppose to be scared of bugs.

Riley looked at Dean, horrified as she held onto Selena tighter. "Don't tell me that you're about to stick your hand in there." Dean tilted his head to the side rather quickly as he continued half-smirking, giving her the answer she didn't want to know. "Oh, God. Why, Dean? Can't you just go find something to get whatever it is out?" she begged. Dean smirked fully at her and shook his head before he looked away from her. He placed his hand into the hole, causing Riley to release a loud squeal. "God, he did it! I'm gonna puke!" Riley exclaimed before she covered her mouth, keeping her eyes away from what was happening. Even Dean had a disgusted expression on his face but this had to be done. He felt around the hole for nearly half a minute before he finally felt something hard against his palm. Gripping onto whatever it was, he began to pull it out of the hole and everyone who had their eyes on the object looked a bit, or maybe more than a bit, horrified. Covered in dirt and worms, a human skull was within Dean's right hand. "D-Did you get it out?" Riley questioned, not daring to look. "Somebody answer me, damn it." No one answered, everyone staring at the skull that they hadn't been expecting to find. Growing impatient, Riley glanced over and she immediately looked away. "Nope!" She regretted looking. Fucking curiosity.

Dean removed himself from a crouched position and he looked over at Riley, a smirk on his face. "You alright, Riley?" he asked, even though he knew the answer already. Her reactions to all of this was making this not so bad. In fact, Dean was willing to procrastinate just so he could terrify her more. He was certain that there were some more bones in that hole but he'd much rather mess with Riley right this second before he had to go digging through that shit again.

Riley let out a growl as she turned towards Dean. She refused to glance towards the skull in his hand. "Do I fucking look alright, you bow-legged son of an asshole?! Goddamn it, Dean! Fucking use gloves next time! I hope you wash those hands before you eat!" Dean began to approach her with a smirk still on his face, raising the skull in his hand. A few of the worms on it fell off but some still remained. Riley immediately pulled Selena in front of her, placing herself behind her younger sister to protect herself from some worms on a human skull. "Hell no! Nope! Stay the fuck away from me with that hand!" Dean stepped closer, on the verge of laughing. Sure, he was holding a human skull in his hand and that was very disgusting in itself but his mind was on something entirely different at the moment. "Back off! I'm not afraid to hurt you, Dean Winchester! This ain't the time to be playing around!" Riley yelled. Dean started laughing finally before he backed off. Sam managed to crack a smile as he watched and Juliet shook her head, smiling. Selena just rolled her eyes at their immaturity and Matt looked confused as to why Dean was playing around with a fucking human skull. Everyone definitely needed to get their priorities straight, except for Selena…

~(Approx) Between March 20th-28th, 2006; Oklahoma~ (Action Mostly)

Dean, Riley, Sam, Selena, and Juliet headed off to the Department of Anthropology after multiple more human skulls were dug up from the ground by Dean. Riley and Juliet had remained in the Audi while Dean, Sam, and Selena had taken the bones inside. However, before that had occurred, Dean and Sam got into a discussion about their father, about what had happened before Sam had left for college and it had been quite an emotional discussion. Selena wasn't a part of that discussion, however, because she had moved ahead to give the two privacy once said discussion had begun; Dean and Sam would likely inform her of some things later, if they deemed it important for her to know. After that private brotherly moment, the three of them (that being the brothers with Selena) learned a little bit of information inside from a professor but not enough for them to know what the fuck was going on in Oasis Plains. Thankfully, the professor informed them of someone who could probably help them and the three of them were soon heading back outside.

In two separate vehicles again, the five headed to Sapulpa where a number of Native Americans lived. Getting some directions, the five of them soon found themselves at a small diner. This time around, only Riley went inside with the Winchester brothers to get some information, Selena staying in the car with Juliet. Dean, Riley, and Sam approached a Native American man within the diner, the man's name being Joe Whitetree. Dean had spoken a lie to the man almost immediately and Joe called him out on it immediately afterwards, not wanting to hear anything from him which amused Riley quite a bit while it annoyed Dean a lot. Joe listened to what Sam had to say and he ended up informing the three of them of something his grandfather had told him, a story that was passed on from generation after generation. The gist of it was that the cavalry (the White Persons or American cavalry) forced the Natives to choose between moving locations or suffering by murdering and raping a number of the Natives each time they visited, doing such for six nights until every Native was either gone (via moving like the White Persons wanted) or deceased (via the deaths the White Persons were causing each night) and as the chief of the village laid dying, he whispered a curse about how no White Persons would ever step foot on those lands again unless they wished to endure what he and his people had endured those six nights, but through the power of nature (a.k.a. the bugs). After thanking Joe and exiting the diner, the three quickly came to the conclusion that the curse was ending that night (until the next time someone showed up there, anyways) and that Larry's family would be dead by sunrise if they didn't do anything about it soon. The three of them raced to their vehicles, getting within them before driving off (Selena and Juliet were informed of the situation by Riley on the ride back to Oasis Plains).

The sky was beginning to darken and neither of their vehicles were anywhere close to Oasis Plains. Dean called Larry in an attempt to get the man and his family out of the house but Larry quickly caught him in a lie, which caused Dean to panic and he hung up on Larry before banging his hand against the steering wheel as he drove faster (he tended to fail at lying when under pressure). Sam took the phone from Dean and he dialed Matt's number, getting Matt on the line. While telling Matt to get his family out of the house, Sam additionally told Matt to tell his family the truth about the situation. However, Dean took the phone back and told Matt that he needed to lie to get his family out of the house, telling him that he'd sound crazy if he told the truth and Matt agreed to do this before Dean hung up on him. In the Audi behind the Impala, the three Grant-Piers siblings were forming a plan of defense, just in case things went south when they got to Oasis Plains.

Expectedly, when the two vehicles finally pulled up in front of Larry's home, Larry and his family were still within the house. As the five of them (Dean, Sam, Selena, Riley, and Juliet) exited their vehicles, Larry stormed out of his home and he began threatening to call the police on them, having heard the truth from Matt (although, he didn't believe a single word of it). Dean and Sam attempted to get Larry to listen to them about leaving while Riley, Selena, and Juliet eyed their surroundings, all three of them ready to spring into any sort of action but Riley, however, did appear to be reluctant to do so for about a minute. Matt had ended up stepping onto the porch and he was attempting to help the Winchesters with convincing Larry that they needed to leave but Larry continued to ignore their claims and basically called them all crazy. Eventually, enough was enough and Sam practically exploded in rage, trying one last time to convince Larry to get his family and leave. However, it was far too late for that. Coming from somewhere nearby, a very loud buzzing noise could be heard by all of them and it continued to grow louder as everyone tried to pinpoint where it was coming from. When the fluorescent bug light on the porch began to overheat from killing several bugs at a time, Larry finally seemed to believe everything that Matt and the Winchesters had been trying to tell him but it truly was far too late for them to leave because, as Matt points out, a million bugs (of various types) were beginning to fly towards that very house, blanketing the moonlit sky.

Upon seeing the millions of insects that were heading their way, Dean directed everyone to run inside the house. Larry and Matt entered their home first, the both of them having been on the porch already. Juliet pushed Riley and Selena in front of her, making the two of them run ahead of her; sure, the three of them had powers and they could hold back these insects but Juliet wasn't about to risk causing the lives of Riley and Selena to end just to save a few innocent people and some hunters she just met. Before Dean and Sam made a move to run inside, both of them made sure that Selena and Riley had gotten inside before them. While Dean ran inside without a care about Juliet since she couldn't exactly die easily, Sam hesitated to run in before her but Juliet ushered him inside, moving closely behind him. Dean, waiting at the door, slammed it shut once everyone was within the household and he locked the door. Although, locking the door probably wouldn't do much good for too long since there were many ways for cursed insects to enter a house.

Temporarily safe within the house, Sam asked Larry if there was anyone else in the neighborhood. Thankfully, only the Pike family were the ones living there right now. Joanie, Larry's wife and Matt's mother, entered the room and she was clearly confused by what was going on because she hadn't been outside to see the swarm of insects. Instead of Larry telling his wife about what was happening when she asked about the noise she was hearing, he insisted that she'd go call 911. This ridiculous suggestion caused Riley to turn towards the man and she glared at him as she began to yell. "Call 911?! What the hell are they gonna do?! Shoot the bugs outta the sky?! Hose them down?! Give them a stern talking to?!" Riley let out a grunt of aggravation as Larry ignored her, him telling his wife to go and call 911 a second time. "Fucking hell!" Riley exclaimed as she shook her head. First, she had to eventually help deal with these bugs and she hated fucking bugs. Now, she had to listen to a complete moron suggest that 911 should be called. Lord, have mercy on all of them.

As Joanie moved to go call 911 as instructed, Juliet looked over at Larry from where she stood (and she happened to be standing near the Winchesters while Riley and Selena were standing near the Pike family). "Exactly what have you been smoking, Sir?" she asked, simply out of curiosity. She wanted to know if this man was really stupid or if he was on something. She raised her hands up in defense when Larry gave her a dirty look (a glare). Beside her (even though she had originally been behind them upon entering the house), Dean and Sam were looking around everywhere as the two of them listened to the banging sounds that the insects were creating outside the house. Riley continued on fuming as she watched Joanie pick up the phone and Selena was standing near Matt, her hand on his shoulder as she whispered comforts to him. "Hey, I'm just asking," Juliet defended weakly as she stared at Larry. "Only someone high on something would suggest calling 911 in this sort of scenario." She greatly agreed with Riley that the 911 suggestion was stupid but clearly, she did nothing to prevent such idiocy from actually occurring (neither Riley nor Juliet stopped the woman from attempting to call 911).

Dean asked for some towels to seal up the crack underneath the door and any other cracks that were anywhere else. As he did that with Riley's help, Sam went over to Selena and Matt to instruct them on closing up everything before the three of them headed upstairs together. Joanie placed the phone down, informing everyone that the line was dead so she couldn't call 911. Larry stood where he was, not sure what to do and Juliet basically did the same thing from where she was standing (currently, she was by Dean and Riley this time). As Riley and Dean were placing a towel underneath the door, the power turned off and Larry went to get his cellphone, attempting to call 911 that way but that was no use either since the insects were blocking the signal by being around the house.

Sam, Selena, and Matt came back downstairs as millions of bugs began to collect on the doors and windows, covering the entirety of the building. The eight of them, regrouped in the living room, watched as they waited. Matt and Joanie were hugging each other by the staircase. Sam moved to be standing beside Dean and Riley. Selena stood at the foot of the staircase, Juliet moving to be standing behind her. Lastly, Larry moved to be standing in front of his wife and son. After a few minutes, Larry looked away from the insect covered window and he looked towards Dean, Sam, and Riley since they were the closest to him. "So, what do we do now?" he asked them. Surely, there had to be something else they go do to save themselves.

Sam stared at the window as he answered Larry. "We try to outlast it." He turned towards his right to see Dean moving around Riley, Dean heading off to another part of the house. Sam and Riley shared a look with each other before they both looked back towards the insect covered window. "Hopefully, the curse will end at sunrise," Sam continued. That's all they really could do at this point, just hope that they'd survive the night.

Selena frowned from where she was located, standing somewhat far behind Sam (and Riley) since she was near the staircase and he (and she) wasn't exactly near said staircase. "I wish you had said that in a more hopeful manner, Sam," she told him. The more hope, the better things would turn out. Hopefully. Fingers crossed.

As the seven of them remained in the living room with their eyes on the window in front of them, Dean was in the kitchen looking for something that could be useful. Looking at the bug covered window that was nearby for a moment, he went over to the sink and began searching the lower cabinets. Quickly, he found a can of bug spray and he headed back towards the living room, closing doors behind him as he went (which probably wouldn't do much good). When Dean re-entered the living room and he showed everyone his findings, Riley looked at him funny. "Seriously?!" she yelled, throwing her arms out and she nearly hit Sam as she did so. Mumbling an apology to Sam, she glared at Dean. She gestured at the can of bug spray in Dean's hand. "Bug spray?! That's your big plan of defense!?" She wished she could use her own plan of defense that she, Juliet, and Selena had come up with but the room was too crowded and they hadn't been attacked just yet (technically).

Dean glared back and he gestured at Riley in return. "Well, I don't see you using your fiery mumbo jumbo!" At least, he was trying to come up with some sort of defense to protect everyone. Riley, she wasn't doing shit really except for somewhat helping. They'd have nothing to worry about if Riley would just use her powers, along with Selena. With Juliet, Dean didn't trust her to use her powers for good but if she did indeed end up using them, he hoped she'd use them to save lives instead of costing them.

"I don't want to risk hurting anyone!" Riley yelled in defense. All of them were too crowded around. If the bugs were to enter, she couldn't risk using her power over fire because she could possibly burn someone to a crisp. She'd have to wait until everyone was out of her line of sight or, in other words, she had to wait until everyone was behind her and safe from any possible attack. She seriously didn't want to risk it. All of them suddenly began to hear a creaking noise. "What the shit was that…?" Riley questioned as she looked away from Dean. Listening closely, everyone found themselves looking towards the fireplace where the creaking was coming from. "Shit…" How could they have missed that?

"Alright, I think everybody needs to get upstairs," Dean commented as he eyed the fireplace. Just as the Pike family was maneuvering themselves to be at the foot of the staircase where Juliet and Selena were, hundreds of thousands of bugs came flying into the living room from the fireplace. The bugs swarmed everyone as everyone failed to start getting up the stairs. Juliet, Selena, and Riley couldn't risk hurting anyone, so their powers were of no use right that moment which made their plan of defense useless right now. Everyone swatted their arms around, trying to protect themselves as the Pike family (and Riley) let out screams. "Riley, get down!" Dean yelled in instruction as he raised the bug spray can that he was holding, a lighter in his other hand. Riley ducked and she rolled out of the way as Dean used the lighter with the bug spray, making it flare up. The flames warded some of the bugs away but not very many. Riley's fire ability would be useful at that moment but with everyone so crowded together, she still couldn't risk it. "Everyone upstairs! Now! Go, go, go!" Dean yelled. The Pike family ran behind Dean, the three of them heading up the stairs first before Selena, Riley, and Sam followed behind them. Dean glanced over at Juliet (who remained downstairs with him at the moment) to see her gesturing her hands around, gust of air or perhaps wind forming from these gestures of hers. Seconds later, she placed her hands on either side of her mouth and she blew out a powerful breath, the gusts of wind heading towards the bugs, blowing most of them away from herself and Dean. Immediately afterwards, she gestured for Dean to run upstairs and he did exactly that without hesitation (he still didn't trust her, though, despite this), Juliet following close behind him.

With some difficulty, all eight of them entered the attic successfully and Sam closed the door behind them as a few bees managed to get inside but the insects were killed by the flames that Dean sprayed at them with the bug spray and lighter combination flamethrower he made. Not even a minute after the eight of them had entered the attic, sawdust began to fall from the ceiling. The buzzing bees and various other insects were getting louder. The Pike family stood crouched behind the Winchesters and Grant-Piers siblings, the sets of siblings looking up at the hole that was being made in the ceiling. "Oh, for fuck sake!" Riley exclaimed. "Really?! Termites?!" Just their fucking luck. Couldn't they get a break?

"Alright, everyone get back!" Dean yelled, again. "Get back, get back, get back!" His main focus right now was getting everyone out of this alive. Somehow. He was prepared to use his makeshift flamethrower until he couldn't use it anymore. Under his instructions, the Pike family of three moved as far into the corner of the attic as they could. However, Dean didn't seem to realize that the half-sisters could finally do something about this mess since no one was crowded around in front of them anymore.

Juliet didn't look at Riley or Selena as she continued staring up at the hole that the termites were still trying to finish creating. "Riley. Selena. We've wasted enough time." It was now or never and they certainly couldn't do this never. This was probably the only way to get everyone to survive the night.

Riley sighed and she groaned but she nodded reluctantly. "Right." She gripped the collar of the jacket Dean was wearing and she pulled him back, moving to take his place. She glanced at him and she spotted the protest look in his eyes (and on his face). She shrugged as she remained beside Selena. "Sorry but I can't have you getting fried to a crisp, Dean." She glanced around until she spotted Sam, watching him move to be by Dean. "Just be ready to patch up the hole when you can. If you can, anyways." With that, she looked away from them both and she glanced up towards the hole, her being in between Juliet and Selena now since they all moved to be the closest to where the hole would be.

Without looking back, Selena let out a yell that was meant for the Pike family. "Many apologies if we frighten you further but we must do this!" She placed her hands together and a white light began to appear around them. The only power that she'd be able to use that could do any sort of harm to these insects was her power over energy. Considering that she couldn't conduct energy out of thin air, she was using the next best thing: her own limited energy that was deep within. As Selena's hands glew a brighter white and as Riley's hands began to form white flames, the termites chewed a hole through the ceiling at last and the bugs began to attempt to swarm around the room. However, a seemingly never-ending blast of white energy erupted from Selena's palms as she turned them upright towards the hole and in a similar fashion, the same thing appeared to be happening with Riley's flames, Riley not throwing fireballs this time around. For the bugs that managed to get through both attacks unharmed, Juliet used her gusts of wind and air to keep them away from everyone. As the three females worked together to keep the bugs away, Dean and Sam frantically worked together to patch up the hole in the ceiling without getting themselves caught in the crossfire and they both managed to set up a board over the hole as the females temporarily stopped attacking, Dean immediately placing a long plank of wood underneath the board to hold it in place. However, this solution only lasted about a minute.

Soon enough, two more holes were chewed open in the ceiling, allowing many more bees to enter the attic where the eight of them were. Because of this, Riley was forced to move away from Juliet and Selena, putting herself very close to one of the new holes and closer to the danger as she began to shoot her flames up and through the hole, killing as many of the bees as she could but a number of bees swarmed around her, stinging her quite a bit but she didn't stop attacking, not even when her nose began to bleed slightly from how much she was overusing her powers (never had she sent a long lasting blast of fire at something because she usually just threw fireballs). Dean quickly moved over to where she was and he began using his makeshift flamethrower, killing as many bees that were around Riley as he could manage without causing harm to Riley while getting stung quite a bit himself. As this was occurring for the two of them, Juliet and Selena were covering the second newly made hole, Selena blasting energy beams through the hole while Juliet was keeping the bees away from Selena, away from Sam, and away from the Pike family. Despite all of their attempts, the bugs continued on coming through the holes and the first hole that was patched up was broken through, even more bees entering the attic. It was actually rather odd that only bees were attacking them when various other insects had entered the household as well.

The eight of them were forced into a corner together when Selena began to feel weak from using so much of her own energy to protect everyone (and when the bug spray Dean was using became empty). The Pike family, Sam, Dean, and Selena desperately swatted at the bugs for several minutes while Juliet and Riley attempted to keep as many of the bees at bay as they could, many of the bees dodging the females' attacks (which is why everyone else was swatting at bees). Conveniently, when all hope seemed lost, the sun finally began to rise again as a new day came to exist and the bugs slowly began to leave through the holes in the ceiling until no more bugs remained in the attic. Confused as to what was happening, the Winchesters and Riley moved to see what was happening while Juliet moved to hold Selena upright, Selena finally losing all of her strength and if it weren't for Juliet, she would've fallen onto the attic floor. As the Winchesters and Riley stared up through one of the holes in the ceiling, they came to realize that the sun was rising and that the curse was over with, everyone soon becoming relieved that they had survived the night with minor injuries…

~(Approx) Between March 20th-28th, 2006; Oklahoma~

Later on that same day, the Winchesters and the Grant-Piers siblings had dropped by the Pike family house (they had left it earlier that day to go and do something, which was staying inside that one house a little longer because it was a rarity for that to happen for the Winchesters, Selena, and Riley), only to learn that the Pike family was moving out of the area for safety measures due to the curse still being a thing that could reoccur on a later day of a later year. While the Winchester brothers were saying their goodbyes to the Pike family and while Matt was asking Juliet questions about what she (plus Selena and Riley) was, Riley had a private conversation with Selena quickly and Selena appeared to agree with Riley's words despite the frown on her face. After goodbyes were finished and chitchat was done with, the Winchesters and Juliet approached the three vehicles (Juliet had drove back to the Pike house in her own car for obvious reasons) where Riley and Selena were waiting. Selena, looking past the Winchesters and Juliet, waved at Matt and sent a smile his way when he did such towards her, Riley just waving at the boy before she turned her attention towards Dean, Sam, and Juliet again.

Sam was the first to speak up, starting a conversation by speaking with Juliet. Unlike Dean, Sam liked her and he kind of hoped to see her again sometime in the future. However, he seemed to be forgetting about the warning that Juliet had told him since he had yet told Dean and Riley of it (Selena was already aware of the possibility of Rebecca coming to see her, thanks to her last visit to Juliet) but hopefully, once things really died down, he'd pass on the information (if he remembered it). "Thanks for the help. We appreciate it," he told Juliet, knowing that Dean would never say such a thing to her any time soon. Juliet nodded, smiling at him and he returned the smile. "I suppose you're heading off now, huh? Got better things to do?" That last question was said in a joking sort of tone.

Juliet smiled more and she rolled her eyes at him. "Yes, I'm heading off and no, I don't have better things to do but I'd rather not stay away from home too long. Two days of fun with you four was enough for me." She continued smiling at Sam and Sam continued smiling back because that's just how he (Sam) was with some people, depending on the person. "And as much as I hate to say it, hunting isn't so bad despite the circumstances that come with it. It's thrilling and dangerous, yet wonderful and amusing. I actually look forward to my future visits." A look of displeasure crossed Dean's facial expression before his expression became blank again; he didn't want Juliet visiting again. Thankfully, Juliet didn't seem to notice that and she looked away from Sam, looking towards Riley and Selena. "However, it wouldn't hurt for you two to come see me from time to time." It was only fair if Riley and Selena returned Juliet's visits but Juliet knew she was just wishing for something that would unlikely occur.

Riley rolled her eyes as she looked over at Juliet. "Yeah, yeah. We've already told you that we'd try, Jules. You can't expect us to just drop everything and come see ya, though, so hush with the complaining." She heard those words come from Juliet's mouth each time they had seen her, which was months ago and currently. Even though she hadn't heard those words escape Juliet's mouth very often, she already couldn't stand hearing them period. She and Selena would visit whenever it was possible for them to do so. Honestly, at this rate, they'd only visit if there was a case in the Raleigh, North Carolina area.

Selena nodded in agreement with Riley's words. "Yes, we shall try our hardest to find ways to come and visit you. Really, we will. It is just rather hard to get away from things when so much goes on in the world." Riley and herself were constantly taking on cases with the Winchesters. The biggest case they've had together so far was the one that has yet ended, which was finding John Winchester and finding the unknown creature that had killed, at least, two human beings. Until all of that was settled, it was unlikely that Riley and Selena would visit Juliet any month soon, unless there was a case in the area.

"I hear you," Juliet told the two half-sisters, understanding shown in her tone. She understood that the two of them were almost constantly busy with saving the day with the Winchesters so she knew she'd have to either be patient or she needed to visit them very often than not. She finally took a glance towards Dean and she glared playfully at him once he finally looked at her in return. Well, she somewhat glared playfully at him, anyways. "You better say more than a few sentences to me next time, asshole, or I'll kick your ass." She still had a smile on her face but her tone sounded serious, like she meant what she said (which was true, to a certain extent). Additionally, she was gonna pretend that she had heard a thank you from him for the extra help that she had gave and for helping him out that one time. Maybe next time, he'd be less of a dick to her. One could only hope, anyways.

Dean rubbed the back of his head, feeling uncomfortable that Juliet had put him on the spot. Beside him, Sam was laughing a bit. Riley, standing somewhat in front of Dean, was smirking and Selena was just silently listening, watching everyone. "Duly noted," Dean commented quickly, looking over at Sam to glare at him. He definitely wasn't looking forward to seeing Juliet again. So what if she had helped save their asses? That didn't mean he could trust the almost unkillable being. If she were to stick around longer, maybe then he'd be able to trust her but how could he truly trust someone that was hardly ever around? For all he knew, she could be killing people back at her home. If Juliet wasn't a supernatural being and she had been more like Selena (Selena being half supernatural and half human), Dean probably would had been more open to the idea of trusting her.

Juliet nodded once and she continued on smiling at everyone. She turned towards Selena and Riley again, stepping towards each of them as she gave them both a hug individually. After she was finished with giving them both hugs, she turned towards Sam and approached him with slight hesitation. Automatically, Sam raised his arms and he waited for Juliet to embrace him; he was use to getting hugs from Selena by this point in time so when a hug was offered, he was more than willing to accept said hug. Juliet wrapped her arms around him and he wrapped his arms around her in return. Juliet could almost feel the rush of blush that went into her cheeks when she heard Sam whisper take care to her; she knew that he knew she didn't need any luck or whatever because of her almost inability of dying but the fact that he still told her to take care of herself had somewhat made her blush and she found that to be rather odd. Pulling out of the hug, she turned towards Dean and Dean made a face because he didn't exactly want to hug her. Instead of hugging Dean, Juliet raised her fist and waited for Dean to fist bump her, which he hesitatingly did. After that was all done, she turned towards her left and began stepping towards her vehicle. "Take care, you four. I wish you all luck in your future adventures together," she called back to them as she went. With that, she gave them the peace sign and she got into her car, soon driving off and away from the area. She'd be back eventually to visit the four of them in a different area but when she'd do that was unknown to them all.

With Juliet gone, Sam looked towards Riley and Selena. "I guess we should be heading off, too, then." There were no more reasons to stay in this area anymore. They had already dealt with the curse, which they didn't break but that's fine since hopefully, Larry Pike would be able to keep people away from this area. Juliet was gone now so that was another reason why they didn't need to stay within the area for much longer. Lastly, they already said their goodbyes; well, he and Dean already said goodbye to the Pike family but it didn't seem like Selena and Riley would be doing the same this time around.

Dean nodded in agreement with Sam, his eyes on the half-sisters as well. "Yeah. More cases to solve, people to save." Monsters to slay, curses to semi-avoid, and so on.

Riley looked down towards her feet, hesitate to speak up before she finally looked back up at the two brothers. "Yeah, but before that, there's something I'd like to be let known." Dean and Sam stared at her only this time, both of them waiting for her to continue. Riley released a sigh and she glanced behind the brothers, semi-watching the Pike family move their belongings into the moving truck. She glanced back towards the brothers a few seconds later. "Well, while you two were saying your little goodbyes to the family behind you, I spoke with Selena and she agrees that perhaps we should part ways." Both Winchesters appeared to be displeased by this statement of hers, neither of them having expected the two to leave their company so soon. Truth be told, Sam and Dean both didn't want the females to leave because they had grown to care about them both. Riley misread their expressions as something different. "We'll still help you with finding the creature and your dad but I think we'd do better if we worked from a distance. Meaning, maybe Selena and I can find something elsewhere because let's face it, us working together with figuring that shit out hasn't been very grand. We found jack shit as a group so perhaps apart, we'll find some sort of...something about either of them." Riley wanted to, at least, try this method out to see if she was correct. Perhaps maybe she and Selena would find some sort of clue, considering they'd be in a different area than the brothers.

After a moment of silence and thinking, Sam nodded slowly before he spoke his thoughts on what Riley had said. "If that's what you think is best, go for it. If you find something, call us and let us know. We'll do the same for you if we find something. It would be better for us to be together when we take down the...creature, safety in numbers and such." Riley nodded in agreement with him, agreeing that it would be best for all of them to group together when they finally cornered the creature. As much as Sam didn't really want the two to leave, he agreed with Riley's plan. At least, he and Dean would occasionally hear something from the sisters in the future, and they'd see them again once the final battle with the creature occurred, whenever that was.

Dean appeared to be without a facial expression, his face blank with emotion. He nodded shortly, agreeing with everything despite that he actually didn't really agree with everything. "Yeah, sounds like a plan to me. Couldn't stand seeing your face for much longer, anyways." Despite the blankness in his tone, he had been dryly joking with Riley. Fortunately, Riley knew that he was joking and she slightly shoved him in a playful manner. When she started smiling at him slightly, he smiled back weakly. His emotions didn't remain hidden for long after that as he soon appeared to be displeased with the fact that they'd no longer be hanging out so much. "Just… You know… Be careful. Don't get killed," he told Riley and Selena. This felt too much like a goodbye to him and he didn't like it.

"Awwwww, somebody's gonna miss us," Riley teased in a sing-song tone, smirking at Dean as she stepped even closer to him.

"Oh, shut up," Dean told her as he wrapped his arms around her first, giving her a hug that she had intended on giving him first. Riley smiled instead of smirking and she wrapped her arms around him in response, wishing that she didn't have to release him but she knew she had to, for the sake of her sanity; she had another reason for wanting to leave the group they formed. Their hug was broken up after several seconds and Riley stepped away from Dean.

For the first time since this conversation topic was brought up, Selena began speaking. "We will meet up again eventually so you should not be so sad about this departure." Of course she'd be the one to point out something that Dean didn't want being pointed out, even though it was obvious that he was sad.

"I'm not sad!" Dean exclaimed, throwing his arms out slightly. Riley and Sam gave him a look, neither of them believing that shit after that little outburst of his. Selena, she just tilted her head to the side as she stared at him. Dean gulped, calmly down quickly to avoid another outburst and he gestured his arms around a bit as he talked. "Displeased, maybe but not sad. This was bound to happen, anyways." Sad, displeased, same difference. He had figured that Riley and Selena would had stayed around until everything was sorted out but clearly, he had been wrong and it kind of upset him. It had been nice hanging out with the sisters while it lasted…

Selena nodded slightly. "I suppose that is quite true." She stepped forward and she wrapped her arms around Dean once she was close enough to him, giving him a hug before they parted ways. He wrapped his arms around her hesitatingly as Sam and Riley hugged it out beside them. A few seconds into the hug, Selena pulled away and she gave a hug to Sam, giggling when he lifted her up into the air slightly when they hugged each other. Once she was back on her feet, she and Riley both said their goodbyes to the brothers, wishing for them both to be safe and to stay alive. After those goodbyes were said, the half-sisters entered the Audi and soon enough, they were gone and out of sight.

Once the Grant-Piers half-sisters were gone, Sam enthusiastically stated to Dean that they'd see the females again eventually or least he hoped they would. In a not so enthusiastic response, Dean agreed with Sam. With that said, the two of them approached the Impala and opened the vehicle's doors. However, only Sam got into the vehicle because something caught Dean's eye before he could take a seat. Picking up the folded piece of paper that was sitting in his seat, he sat down inside the Impala and closed the door behind him. Curiosity filling his being, he opened up the folded paper and some money dropped down into his lap. He eyed the money for a moment before he looked at the paper, immediately realizing that it was a note from Riley; Riley must've placed the note in the Impala sometime before she and Selena headed off, most likely doing such while Dean and Sam were saying bye to the Pikes. Dean began to read it silently, feeling Sam's eyes on him and all the note said was that the hustling money rightfully belonged to him (Dean), and that he shouldn't spend it all in one place. Additionally, the note also said that she'd miss him a lot. Folding the paper back up and placing it (and the money) into his jacket pocket, he ignored Sam's questioning as he started up the Impala and he drove away from the area. Damn it, he was gonna miss Selena and Riley something awful… Son of a bitch…


"Trivia":

1) Definitely enjoyed that one moment I made between Sam and Juliet. Maybe Sam was slightly out of character in that very moment but fuck it, this whole episode was a disaster to begin with so you're welcome for my changing up how the bugs were slayed and stuff at the end-ish. I made it more realistic (sort of), something most fanfictioners forget to do when they make this chapter for this episode. Don't know how they manage to forget to make it more likable but whatever. At least, I sort of made it more likable, even though it is still quite bad in my opinion. Also, I am very aware that some of my dialogue from the sisters is cringe worthy and that sometimes, Juliet seems too much like Selena one moment and then too much like Riley in another moment but I promise you, I'll get better with playing as her as time goes by, plus her personality is a mixture of both Riley and Selena so that's also why she seemed that way but thankfully, you got to see her as her own person too so that makes up for my lack of originality with her personality. But this is my opinion. If you think I portrayed her as perfectly as I've been doing when she shows up, then thanks but I still kind of feel that I made her too much like both characters XD. I could just be paranoid or something, though. Juliet could just be entirely her own person with just minor comparisons with Riley and Selena but my mind is trying to tell me the opposite. I'm not changing anything, also, so there's that. I'm leaving everything as is so please, stick around if you wanna remain on this possibly slowly building train wreck or feel free to leave and find a much better fanfiction that doesn't over-detail things like me :). Oh and I'm sorry for the lack of dialogue for Juliet and Selena this chapter; as the series continues, the both of them will get more dialogue and become a bigger part of the story (they are just sideline characters, mostly, at this moment in time and they'll likely remain as such in the future but with more dialogue and meaning, I guess).

2) Riley and Selena have parted ways with the Winchesters. When will they be encountering each other again? Spoiler Alert: in the next chapter, which happens to be entirely original. Fingers crossed that I manage to make the next chapter awesome because finally, as I said, we're getting another original chapter, bitches. It'll have little "bonding" moments here and there, and it'll mostly be action for a few scenes. You'll see what I mean when that's eventually published. Hopefully in this same week, it'll be published. I think you'll like the concept of it, if anything. I'm hoping that I'll be able to keep the brothers in character for the first ever original chapter that will be featuring them. I'm a bit worried that I'll make them out of character but it's fine if they are only slightly or somewhat out of character because not everyone can make them completely in character one-hundred percent of the time (and that's just for people who make fanfics that involve ocs; those who make fanfics with just the characters from the show, they usually tend to have them entirely in character). And since I'm on the subject, I'll give you the basic plot of the new chapter to come because why not? It's called Comatose and the creature that is dealt with WAS gonna be a dream sorceress, which would had been a reference to Charmed. However, a better idea had came to mind and I'd rather you guys find out what it is when the chapter gets out. I will also tell you that no one dies, not even a monster; this new chapter will be a no death chapter, first of very few that'll happen.

3) Juliet has met the Winchesters and, oh my, it seems that Sam has taken a liking to her while Dean is rather hesitate to trust her, a monster that is nearly impossible to be killed. So, technically, they both are in character to some extent, even though Sam of this season was kind of uncaring at some points about others (but I wanted to change that, to some extent as well, and thus, he had ended up taking a liking to the Grant-Piers siblings). With Dean, he was hesitate to trust Riley and Selena at first, then he was like "okay, maybe I can trust them", then he was back to "I don't know" after that incident from 'Dead in the Water', and then he was back to "okay, so I can trust them after all because they probably would've killed us by now if they wanted to" in 'Phantom Traveler' so I kind of want it to be the same way with him towards Juliet. Me and multiple others agree that I have been keeping them both in character, at most, and that they rarely get out of character so yay for that. Anyways, back to Juliet. So, she met the brothers and you all got to see the moment between Sam and Juliet inside the house. That was interesting, yeah? Not too out of character for Sam, I hope. And as I said before in the first "trivia", I rather liked making that scene between them. Perfect way to begin the makings of their love to come, in my opinion.

4) Selena going without any shelter from the rain is based on something I did recently. It was raining and my mother said that I needed to feed the cat, which she lives in the trailer down the path from my home. I asked if I needed a coat and she was like "nah, it's not cold" but it was clearly raining and I clearly didn't think long enough about it cause I just walked out the door and by the time I got back home, it was like I had taken a second shower that day but with my clothes on. That was fun. The time before that, I had went out into the cold with shorts and no coat to go and feed the cat. Thankfully, my cold didn't last as long as it usually does when I get one. A Christmas miracle right there, bitches.

5) Important Added A/N: On a side note and off topic, there's this thing about net neutrality that's happening and people are saying that we may have to pay to use sites if the vote is passed. So like we MIGHT have to pay to use this site or Quotev or any other of our fanfiction sites. Like, I don't have a job and I do not have any money whatsoever but my parents do and unless all they have to do is pay our internet provider (or whomever) a bit more cash, they will not pay for individual sites per month or whatever IF that becomes the thing and we'll go without internet. That clearly would mean I will not be online anymore, I will not be continuing these stories if that happens. So, short answer: I will be online still IF ONLY a bit extra money needs to be paid, if nothing really changes, or if the vote fails and everything remains as is because otherwise, I won't be seen again most likely or I won't be seen until sometime in the far future. We'll see what happens. So, if I randomly vanish for several months or more, you know why now.

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