Welcome back for chapter twenty-one. We're still in Cara's point of view. Hope ya'll enjoy it.
PS: I own nothing but my idea and OCs. Also, the idea of a 'demon cursed with a soul' was kind of spin-off of the 'vampire cursed with a soul' thing. That is the only idea that isn't mine and is rightfully Joss Whedon's.
PPS: This will contain spoilers for S1 E11: Scarecrow. You have been warned so if you haven't seen it, get to it. For the record, don't know if what the scarecrow is sitting in is either woods or an orchard. I called it an orchard but I could be wrong. Don't hate me. : (

Rocky Road

Dean and I walked through this orchard and that feeling of something being off in this place, grew tenfold. I struggled to keep up with Dean and I hoped he wouldn't notice but he did. "Hey, you alright?"

"Yeah. Just fighting back a migraine."

"Bummer. Need any help walking?"

"I should be okay." Dean walked over to me and grabbed my hand. I looked at him, looked at my hand and then back to Dean.

"Just in case, ya know. Can't be too careful in our business." I just nodded and let Dean lead me through this orchard. He stopped when a creepy looking scarecrow. He walked over to hit and I had to fight back some seriously bad vibes coming from the scarecrow. Dean looked the scarecrow up and down and cringed. "Dude, you're fugly." I snickered and Dean smiled. Dean let go of my hand and grabbed one of the ladders standing up against a tree. He stuck it next to the scarecrow and climbed up. I swallowed hard as Dean continued to scan over the scarecrow, lifting up his sleeve to get a look at something on his arm.

"Find something, Dean?"

"I think so." He pulled out the pictures of the missing people and looked over the one with the guy with the tattoo on it. "This scarecrow has the same tattoo as this missing guy. Weird." He looked back at the scarecrow. "Nice tat." Dean got off the ladder, put it back up against the tree and we left the orchard.

"Now what?"

"We head back into town and see if we can figure out what business this scarecrow has here."

"It's a scarecrow, Dean. What do you think it's job is?" Dean stopped in his tracks, wheeled around and backed me up against the tree.

"Whatever that is, Cara, it's arm has the same tattoo that our missing guy has. I don't believe in coincidence, to be honest, and something about that thing is not right."

"Besides the fact that it's fugly?"

"Yes, besides that." As we stood there in silence for a second, Dean's proximity set in and I could feel myself start to get hot. Dean stood there for a few minutes just staring at me and I felt that if I didn't move, I was going to do something really stupid. I went to head back to my car but Dean was still standing in the way.

"Dean..." I only said his name and he was kissing me the second after the fact. I tensed up against the tree but relaxed into the kiss. Dean's lips felt so smooth and I could easily get used to kissing them but I still felt something unnatural in this damn orchard. I ran my hand up his arm and fought with myself before gently pushing him backwards, breaking the kiss. Dean's eyes connected with mine and I had to fight back every urge to kiss him again. "We should, um, get back to town."

"Yeah. Come on." We walked back to our cars and drove back into town. Dean pulled up to the gas station and the girl that was in the general store was standing there waiting. We got out of our cars and the girl started to talk to Dean.

"You're back."

"Never left."

"You still looking for your friends?" Dean nodded and propped himself up against his Impala. From where I was standing, I could see Dean turning on his charm and I snickered.

"Mind filling it up there, Emily?" She smiled at him and started to pump gas into Dean's Impala. "So, did you grow up here?"

"Came here when I was thirteen. I lost my parents in a car accident. My aunt and uncle took me in."

"They're nice people."

"Everybody's nice here."

"So what, it's the perfect little town?" I had to hold back a laugh. There is no such thing as the perfect little town, Dean. I looked over at Dean and he glanced over at me before looking back at Emily.

"Well, you know, it's the boonies but I love it. I mean, the towns around us people are losing their homes, their farms but here it's almost like we're blessed." Something crossed Dean's face and I couldn't quite place it.

"Hey, you been out to the orchard? Seen that scarecrow?"

"It creeps me out." Creepy doesn't begin to cover it.

"Whose is it?"

"I don't know. It's just always been there." I watched Dean look past Emily at the car sitting in the driveway behind the gas pump.

"That your aunt and uncle's?"

"Customer. Had some car troubles."

"It's not a couple is it? Guy and a girl." Emily nodded. Emily finished filling Dean's Impala, finally, and before I got back in my car I watched him pay her for the gas. Dean looked at me, motioned for me to follow him and we took off. We pulled off the road and shut our cars off. I sat in my seat for a few minutes, trying to not dwell on the kiss that Dean and I shared in the orchard. I was so focused on not thinking about the kiss that when someone knocked on my window, I jumped half a foot. "Sorry, Cara."

"It's fine, Dean."

"Hey, you want to grab something at Scotty's?"

-FIN-

That's it for this chapter, folks. Reviews are appreciated. : )