Today was my last day of school and I'm hyped up on Jones Soda so I figured I'd write a cute little chapter. Sorry for the lack of posts. Stupid last days of school the teachers decide to give us shite loads of homework to "prepare" us for are finals that are happening next week tear So in between studying for that and going to Alcan, I hope that the FINAL CHAPTER will be up TOMRROW. Wish me luck as I wrap this up cuz everything is in my noggin working its way to my fingers!

Chapter 14: Kats-eyes and Killers

"We're getting you out of here" Dean said as soon as he re-entered the hospital room.

"This is because of him isn't it?" Kat screamed.

"Dom" Kat had never seen the look in her brother's eyes like she saw now. She could see that Dean didn't want to cause her any harm in her fragile state but he also had to follow his father's order.

"Dean, sigh I can't"

"Yes you can."

"No, I mean I CAN'T. Look the doctors said I need to take it easy, I got shot in the chest and barley made it okay? I mean—" Kat stopped and broke into a fit of coughs "I---I---won't let him----no." Kat stumbled between coughs.

"Dean I need to talk to you outside" Sam said.

"No Sam, Dad thinks we're close we have to do what he says. Do you want the thing that killed Jess and Mom to get away?"

"Don't you dare pull that card on me."

"Well do you?"

"If it means our little sister stays safe than yes."

Dean was shocked, this was not the response he was expecting, when did he become the one who was obsessed with killing the demon and Sam become the one that was so protective of the family they had.

"Look she'll be safe I promise."

"Dean I don't think-"

Kat interrupted him.

"Sam, just do what Dean says, if he thinks it'll be okay, it will be." Dean smiled at his sister; she was brave to even consider leaving in her state.

Sam went to talk to the nurses to about discharging Kat, because lets face it he is better with people than Dean, while Dean helped Kat get dressed with much embarrassment.

"I got it Dean."

"I think we should ask if you are allowed to wear ahem that."

"A bra?"

"Yea, I mean your wound near your, and well the bandage will get in the way."

"Don't make this any worse than it is." Kat was embarrassed at her current situation. She had her hospital gown on and was trying to slip her bra on underneath. "Ohh Ow Owwie OW!"

"Dude, just turn around and I'll do it up for you."

"Easy for you to say, you're not standing naked in a paper gown while your sibling is helping you change."

"It's not like I've never seen you naked." Dean replied sick of his sister's antics. As soon as he noticed his sister's horrified look he cracked up.

"WHAT? WHEN" Kat shrieked as Dean stiffened.

"When, um me and Sam found you. The hotel, and the guy that um… you were against the wall." Much to Dean's relief Sam walked in and announced that they were all set to go.

Dean carried his little sister out to the Impala. As he laid her down on the back seat she screamed and grabbed at her bandage in pain. Dean stopped all his movements and widened his eyes.

"Sweetie, you okay? Can you breath, do we need a doctor? We need a doctor, someone come quick!"

"Dean…" Dean was still calling out for some medical attention. "DEAN!" Dean refocused his attention on his sister. "I'll be okay I just moved the wrong way."

"Are you sure, maybe we should get a second opinion." Kat half-heartedly slapped Dean.

"I'm fine you nitwit can we just hurry this up." Dean helped her lay across the backseats as comfortable as possible and paused. "What?" Kat asked.

"Nothing." He simply lifted her legs from the seat put a plastic bag under her shoes and made for the drivers seat.

Kat sat on the motel bed trying to instruct her brothers on how to pack her bags, and Sam thought she was enjoying it way too much.

"NO, NO, NO SAM! If you do that you'll wrinkle my shirt. We don't have irons; you're proof enough of that!" Sam just glared at his sister then picked up all her clothes, balled them up and stuck them in his sister's duffel as she groaned in pain for her shirts.

"Sammy take a seat we all need to talk."

"What?" Sam asked his brother shocked. "You, want a…well…chick flick moment?"

"I think it's necessary."

"Huh?" His sister joined in on the conversation.

"Listen, from everything we know about this demon, I can get into our heads and try and break us up."

"Never going to happen." They boys looked at Kat. "I mean it breaking us up…We are the 3 Musketeers, the 'Trio' if you will, the Hanson on hunting, the trifecta of killing."

"Come on Kat be serious." Sam commented. The truth was Kat knew if they started talking, the conversation would get back to the guy that raped and beat her, and that was a subject that was still a sore subject she was unwilling to talk about.

"We're talking and that's final."

"Okay, if you're going to make us share our feelings, lemme share this. You she pointed to Dean are turning into DAD!"

"NO I'M NOT!" After what their 'father' had said to Kat in the hospital, Dean was not amused to be compared to the man.

"Yea you are, since when do you think you have the right to give us orders."

"I'd don't give you orders."

"Pssh the hell you don't" Sam joined in on the conversation now.

"Oh yeah? Give me one example." Kat and Sam immediately started overlapping each other's voices as the pointed out to Dean about a hundred examples.

"Not to mention what you made us pack up and leave the hospital just now." They both chimed together.

"Okay, fine. I'm sorry."

"Did you just say you're sorry?" They asked in unison.

"YES! OKAY? If we have to work through this before we face off with this demon I'm going to have to face all of this. okay? Goddamn Mary-Kate and Ashley-finish each others words-twins." He finished under his breath.

"Um Dean" Sam tried to say seriously. "I hate to break it to you he started to snigger we're like four years apart and I have a penis."

"EWW SAM!" Kat was grossed out by the mention of any appendage her brother's had that she lacked because she was female.

"Alright let's just keep going okay." Dean moved from his seat on his bed to his sister's bed where both his siblings were. "Well I guess I'm going to have to start this off, being the oldest and all, sigh I guess all I have to say is that you guys are all I have and that I will always love you guys. I know growing up I had to be like a second dad to you Sammy, and I made you do as I said while dad was out hunting. But you have to understand all I was trying to do was protect you."

Sam tried to interrupt but Dean wouldn't let him.

"Can you guys wait till I'm done till you say anything. Dom…or Kat I should say heh, when you came into our lives I was mad that you were going to steal dad's attention from me and Sammy and become a burden I had to take care of. But one night, about a month after you joined us, you were talking in you're sleep, nothing coherent but just little mumbles so I went to sit next to you and you grabbed my hand. I started to listen to what you were saying and it was like hearing one side of a telephone conversation. I'm pretty sure you were talking to you're mom."

Kat had tears in her eyes.

"You told her how scared you were and how much you missed her. Then I was surprised when you mentioned that that you loved me and Sammy and even if it meant losing her, you would do it all over again to be with me and Sammy."

"I remember that." Kat choked out.

"I don't" Sam whispered feeling left out.

"I'm sorry to burst you're bubble Sam but she was a brighter five-year old than you ever were."

"Shut up." Sam said gloomily. Kat just moved over to Sam who was at the foot of the bed and hugged him, tying not to wince from the pain. "Your turn Sam." She said quietly.

"Um. What do I talk about?"

"Anything you're hiding from us about how you really feel."

"How I really feel?"

"Yea."

"What if you don't like it?"

"That's the point." Dean concluded and sat quietly for Sam to begin.

"Well I guess no matter where I start at, it all leads back to Jess. I really miss her, and a part of me will never forgive myself for leaving her that night. But…and this is the part I don't understand…I blame you Dean." Ouch much? "If you hadn't come to me that night and told me Dad was missing. Well, I never would have left, and I would have been there to protect her. And Kat, I hated how after we got so close, the moment Dean came to start being a close big-brother, you just left me in the dust. You tell me that you hate me for leaving you? Well I hated you just as much for leaving me. Both of you. Stanford was a place where I could find my own solace and stop depending on you guys. And now that that was interrupted by this son-of-a-bitch demon….I'm not stopping till it's dead."

"Um." They two other siblings were at a loss for words.

"Looks Sam. If I had any idea that coming to you would mean you hating me, I never would have called on you. I-I didn't know and you can't hold that against me. I just." Dean was blown away by his brother's confession. He knew this conversation was going to be deep, but he didn't know it was going to be this deep. "I really am sorry."

"I know Dean."

"And Sam, if hanging out with Dean and ditching you like that means that you felt anything like I felt while at boarding school, then I really am sorry, from the bottom of my heart."

"Thanks Kat, that means a lot."

They sat in silence for a few moments.

"Well it's getting late we better leave."

"Kat. We aren't going anywhere until we hear you're side."

Shite, she thought, there was Dean being bossy again, there was no way she was getting out of this.

"Okay. Well um I guess I don't have any major quarrels with you boys. Although, Dean when we were little you did kill my football with you're car."

"Soccer ball." Dean said trying to 'Americanize' her sports reference. He watched intently as his sister's brown cat-like pupils stretched thinner.

"Whatever. Um I guess what you guys really want to hear about is boarding school. Well you see I was a real loner at school, didn't feel like talking to anybody at first. I was the 'troubled child,' the creepy pyromaniac with her lighter. I didn't really think much about anything anyone thought about me. But when you guys stopped calling and asking about me, something in me snapped I guess. I just became this big bully and rampaged through the halls stomping down anyone in my path. Then I started to fall into a crowd that reflected me and how I felt, got into the whole drugs thing, started with the cutting and then the anti-depressants and such. The teachers suggested I focus myself on a sport to use all my built up energy towards. That's how I got back into surfing and started to hang out a lot more with Paul. I don't know what else I can tell you guys." Sure Kat was sharing her experiences with her brothers, doesn't mean she was ready to share with them how she felt about them, and if she got them talking about other stuff she was feeling, they would be sure to forget that pointer.

"You know you have to spill about that day back in Montana."

"Yea. Well…you guys left that morning, about 10 minutes after you left…or was it an hour. I don't know my mind is a little fuzzy about exact details but I was in the bathroom and I heard the door. I thought you guys forgot something and then I saw the guy. I asked him what he wanted and he said the money I won from 'Open Mic Nite" She tried to stop the tears from flowing but they ran from her eyes like open taps. Dean and Sam held one of her hands each and half-hugged her as they sat. "I told him you had it." She told Dean. "And so he said he'd take the constellation prize. I think he knocked me around a bit before he climbed on me. I don't really remember much after that."

Dean felt horrible. If he left the money at the motel he would have just taken it and ran off. But no he insisted on taking the money so that he and Sam could go out and celebrate after. It was his entire fault. "I'm sorry; I should have left the money with you. I didn't know."

"You never know do you!" Sam screamed at him. He was pissed at his brother's excuse for both of their problems. "You're just Dean-the-pretty-clueless-pretty-boy!"

"SAM STOP!" Kat got up and faced Sam. "Would you stop? For once? It's not his fault okay?"

"No Dom, its okay I get it." Dean grabbed a few bags from the room and started to pack up the car. Sam followed and Kat waited for her brother to come back to help her to the car. When neither Sam nor Dean returned, she grabbed the final duffel and headed to the car. Sam was in the back seat and Dean was at the trunk.

"Here." She handed Dean the bag.

"Sorry, I forgot you were injured." She simply smiled and hugged her brother.

"Wait" she half-screamed as he was about to close the trunk. She reached into her suit case and pulled out her Killers CD. Dean smirked at her.

"Fine, fine anything for my little sis." He shoved her lightly and they embarked the car for Kamloops.