Title/Song: Fearless

Artist: Taylor Swift

Disclaimer: I don't own the song, the artist, or Supernatural.

Summary: Kendra and Luke finally go from childhood sweethearts to dating.

A/N: You can probably tell I had TOO much fun writing this one. I love working with the kids. I've got a "Wee!Hunters" fic I play with from time to time. Seeing the kids as they grow up and conquer various milestones with hunter parents is always amusing for me. In this Dean left before he even knew Autumn was pregnant. He never knew actually so don't expect to see him.

"You're sure?" Kelly asked from her place on Kendra's bed. They'd only turned 16 last week and it was on that day that Luke had asked Kendra out. Kayla sat on her bed across the room watching Kendra go through her collection of baseball caps looking for the one Luke's father had bought her when they went to a ball game five or six years ago.

"No, I thought I'd ruin a friendship on a whim." Kendra snapped.

"Lukey wouldn't hold it against you." Kayla assured her. "We're practically family what is he going to do, wave from the mail box?" Kelly glanced at her shocked by this proposal.

"Guys, can we drop it? I'm going to go out with him and what happens happens. It's no big deal." Kendra dismissed them. "Unless you have worth saying: scram." Kelly rolled her eyes pushing off the bed, leaving Kayla following after her silently. Kendra dressed the same as she always did when hanging out with Luke. The only difference being that her jeans didn't have holes wore in them, her t-shirt lacked stains, and she'd chosen her school shoes instead of the well wore pair that she usually wore. She screwed the cap on her head, running fingers lovingly over the threadbare bill. This hat had seen her through a lot. It had jokingly become her good luck charm, and it made her nervous to think Luke would notice that.

"You shouldn't be this old." Kendra turned around to face the voice of the only woman she'd ever known to risk hell to be a mother of children who weren't her own. Autumn had her arms folded over her chest as she leaned against the door frame. As she seemed to do when feeling sentimental the red headed former huntress was wearing her ex's flannel shirt over an old t-shirt. "You should still be I pigtails and yelling at Josh for making you wear a dress on Sundays. " Kendra smiled remembering such fights.

"Boys do not wear dresses." She said dragging out her old argument. Autumn's lip quivered as she pulled it into a smile.

"He's down stairs waiting for you." She finally said after a long moment of just looking at her surrogate daughter.

"I'm not making a mistake am I?" Kendra asked showing a weakness she claimed not to have: fear.

"Kenny, that boy has talked of nothing more than marrying you since third grade. It boggles my mind that he figured out what love is before me but he actually loves you. If I thought he'd hurt you or that the two of you wouldn't be able to handle this like adults I wouldn't have allowed it." Autumn assured her. It wasn't exactly what Kendra had expected to hear. She didn't want to be reminded the proper name for his affection but somehow coming from Autumn it was comforting. She nodded.

"I guess I should go down before Denny steals him." The young blond said.

"No," Luke shook his head. "That's not how it works at all." The little freckled red head stared at him with big green eyes boring into him. It made him a little uncomfortable. He'd seen photos of the boy's father and knew they shared a lot of facial features but the eyes the most. It struck him that Dean Winchester, Kendra hero, was staring at him from somewhere in that boy and for the first time in his life he wanted as far from the child as physically possible.

"Then where do babies come from? That's how the doggy worked." Denny pushed forward. Luke washed a hand over his face. Kayla and Kelly were sitting on the couch opposite him watching intently to see how he would answer this.

"When a mommy and daddy are married, have a house of their own, steady jobs, and a lot of other grown up stuff and they love each other very much God gives them a baby as a reward for being such good people. I don't know how your dog got his foot stuck in Janie's dog and I was fairly sure Wolverine was neutered." Luke explained as well as he could. There were so many different versions of this fairy tale that kids were taught he hardly knew which one was the right one to tell a kid who was the child of two hunters. Didn't ten year old boys have better things to worry about anyway? Wasn't there a cardboard box mission to mars he should be tending to? Luke was edging closer and closer to a full on melt down when Kendra finally entered the room followed closely behind by her mother.

"Hey," Kendra said her voice a shier than he'd ever heard it before.

"Hey." He returned lamely. Oh tonight was going to be super awkward.

"It rained." she commented.

"Yes it did." He nodded. Kelly and Kayla started giggling.

"Girls, take Denny and go check his homework." Autumn dismissed the rest of her brood. As soon as the rest of the children were out of the room she motioned for the two of them to sit as she sat on the coffee table. "Okay here's the rules little ones." She told them in a teasing business tone. "She's home by ten. That's an hour later than anyone else would get her, Luke. Don't make me regret it. If something happens and you can't get home on time call me. Your father and I trust the two of you, probably more than we should. But don't think that will stop us from climbing up your asses first time you slip up. Kendra you are not to drive. I know you can but until we go and get your license you're not to get behind that wheel without me." She paused looking the two of them over and bit her lip. "Just be careful and get home safe." She bid.

"Mom don't I always take care of our girl?" Luke asked. Autumn laughed.

"Okay, true enough. You two go and have fun." She got up and kissed both of their foreheads.

There's somethin' 'bout the way
The street looks when it's just rained
There's a glow off the pavement
Walk me to the car
And you know I wanna ask you to dance right there
In the middle of the parking lot
Yeah
Dinner went off better than either had hopped it would. Once out of the house they were free to settle into their normal routines. They talked about school and Luke told Kendra about the awkward conversation her brother had trapped him in before she'd come down stairs. They laughed and teased completely forgetting that this was a date and not just them grabbing a burger after a game. At least until Luke paid the bill and took her hand. There was usually a fight over who would pay this time and the physical contact always made them pull away and blush. Tonight when he reached for her hand her skin tingled and she with drew it quickly, the thought of this forbidden touch making her avoid his eyes.

"I'm sorry." Luke apologized, sitting back down at their booth. She looked up at him through her lashes. She held his gaze a beat before she reached out and took his hand.

"No, I just forgot we're allowed to do that." She told him and he smirked squeezing her hand.

"I told you, there are benefits." She smiled.

"You had benefits before I agreed to go out with you." he laughed.

"Yes but we were nine then and you beating up my bullies wasn't as much a benefit as you believed." Kendra stuck her tongue out at her date. "Come on, I still have you for a few more parent free hours." Luke reminded tugging her to her feet. He laced his fingers through hers as the wandered out to his car. The water captured in the cracks of the pavement looked like glitter with the street lights glowing down. It was warmer here in town than on the outskirts where they lived. The heat gave the whole scene an almost magical feel. A car stopped at the light, it radio blasting and Kendra found herself falling prey to a girlie idea. She turned Luke around; Keeper of the Stars had come on.

"Wanna dance?"

"Are you sure you're not Kelly? I don't want to get in trouble later." He teased, a little hesitant. Kenny wasn't a dancer. She smirked stepping closer locking her arms around the back of his neck.

"I guess you'll just have to wait and find out." He nervously took her hips in his hands and they swayed to the music like fifth graders at their first school dance. Keeping each other an arms length apart, Completely nervous and awkward until the light turned green and their music sped off.

"Kenny, I want to show you something." He said. His hands still rested on her hips. Her arms were still around his neck and a voice in the back of his head was screaming to take advantage of the moment and kiss her. But this voice had never been the victim of her left hook.

"Okay." She nodded moving to the car. "Show me." He slipped around the back of the old station wagon his dad had given him for his sixteenth birthday. It still had a lot of work to be done but at least it ran now which was an improvement from when he got it. After school jobs only went so far to pay for things and even with Kenny having pitched in when she could he was a long way from getting his baby looking as good as he wanted. He hopped in the driver's seat, starting her up in one fluid motion. Once he'd cleared the parking lot he took over the steering wheel with just his left hand the right reaching for hers again. The only time he'd ever held her hand this much was when they drove her old dog, John, to the vet to be put to sleep and that had been nearly ten years.
We're drivin' down the road
I wonder if you know
I'm tryin' so hard not to get caught up now
But you're just so cool
Run your hands through your hair
Absentmindedly makin' me want you

And I don't know how it gets better than this
You take my hand and drag me head first
Fearless
And I don't know why but with you I'd dance
In a storm in my best dress
Fearless
Kendra was watching Luke more than the road as he drove across town. They didn't live in a big town, but it was big enough that driving across town took some time. She knew all the streets by heart anyway. In the three months Luke had had his driver's license they'd been down all of them a hundred times. Every chance they got to drive the car they took and he always asked her to be his co-pilot. Being the boy next door had perks, even if just going to get a gallon of milk he would stop and ask her along. He'd run his hand through his hair at every stop, an action she knew well. He did this whenever he was worried about getting her approval. When he'd catch her watching him he'd smile. She couldn't believe her mind when he would do that. Every smile he sent her way caused a flood of thoughts about other things he could do with his lips. His thumb traced hers and it sent a shiver down her spine.

She'd known Luke nearly a decade and never before had she wanted him to do the things her mind was coming up with so badly. She wanted to feel his lips on hers. She wanted his hands to rake over her body. But she didn't say so. She did however watch her every move. She didn't want him to know what she was thinking. Kayla and Kelly were right. She had to take this slow and easy. One false move and they would all lose a good friend. Luke was like a brother to the kids. Denny needed him to do boy things with. Kelly needed him to threaten the garbage that followed her around trying to get up her skirt. Kayla, well Kayla just couldn't have another guy she loved and trusted hurt her.

"You're quiet." She commented.

"I'm thinking." He admitted.

"About what?"

"Last month when your washer broke." He got an impish grin on his face. "All your things were either in the wash or in a state that Autumn would never let you wear them to school."

"And I had to wear that stupid skirt of Kelly's." Kendra scrunched up her nose in disgust.

"That's exactly what I was thinking about."

"And what about that wretched skirt were you thinking?" she prodded.

"Not so much the skirt as you in it." Kendra squeezed his hand making him cry out.

"Burn that image from your mind." She ordered.

"Make me, Ken." She pulled her hand from his folding her arms over her chest and looked out the window pouting. "Aw come on, Kenny. You know I'm teasing." He tried reaching over and patting her leg.

"Eh! No touchy!" she squealed pressing herself into the door. Checking that he was still in his lane he prodded her in the ribs making her squeal and giggle. "Lucas, stop!"

"No. Not until you promise you're not mad at me."

"Fine! I'm not mad! Watch the road! We eat a tree Mom's going to kill us both." He quit putting both hands back on the wheel.

"We eat tree, baby, we're likely to already be dead."
So baby drive slow
'Til we run out of road in this one horse town
I wanna stay right here in this passenger's seat
You put your eyes on me
In this moment now capture every memory

And I don't know how it gets better than this
You take my hand and drag me head first
Fearless
And I don't know why but with you I'd dance
In a storm in my best dress
Fearless

Luke pulled into the park parking lot and instructed Kendra to get out and follow him. She did so without second thought. They spent so much time here between their childhoods and sports they were involved in since then nothing about this place could possible cause hesitation. He led her toward the woods just beyond the playground; whoever had thought this design up wasn't smart. Kids get lost in the woods you don't put them right by it. Off the main trail was a small structure that was vaguely familiar.
"Know where we are?"

"Not exactly." she shook her head.

"Really?" He turned his keychain flashlight on shinning it around. "None of this reminds you of anything." The shape of the structure was barely visible, it had been well worn by time and weather but with sudden clarity she knew it.

"It's our old fort." He beamed nodding. "I completely forgot about this place." They hadn't been here in years, not since Kelly tried got mad at them and tired to tear it down.

"I was here with Denny the other day. He found it. I thought you might like to see it again." She was only half listening as she looked around shaking her head in disbelief. In reality it had only been a handful of years since they were the little kids who reigned from the fort but it seemed like a life time ago. His watch started beeping and he swore under his breath.

"Got a hot date?" she teased.

"Yeah, but I'm already with her." He answered offhandedly turning off the alarm. "We've gotta get you back home. That told me when we'd have enough time to drive back."

"Okay," she nodded reaching for his hand again. This hand-holding thing she could get used to.
Well you stood there with me in the doorway
my hands shake
I'm not usually this way but
You pull me in & I'm a little more brave
It's the first kiss, it's flawless, really somethin', it's fearless.

And I don't know how it gets better than this
You take my hand and drag me head first
Fearless
And I don't know why but with you I'd dance
In a storm in my best dress
Fearless

Autumn sees them pull up the drive and pours another cup of coffee. She knows Kendra well enough to know she's going to want to sit up with a cup of coffee and stare at the wall. She txted Jason to tell him they're home and for the first time all night actually works on the mound she still has to edit, anything to keep her mind off the ritual taking place on her front porch.

Luke glanced from her face to the door. Her hands were shaking so she stuffed them into her pockets. This was a make or break moment. Kelly would pester her tomorrow for every detail of tonight and this would be the most important one. Even Kayla would want to know if it indeed did happen. There had been other kisses between the two. When girls had cooties, she'd found kissing him to be a perfect weapon. When she missed a two weeks of school with pneumonia he had kissed her forehead before leaving the night she was checked into the hospital. But this one was different. She looked up through her lashes again and was annoyed that she did so.

"I'm sorry for being such a girl tonight." She apologized.

"I was in hopes you would be." He said reaching up and taking off her baseball cap. "I didn't want to go out with one of the boys." She bit her lip watching him as he turned her hat around in his hand.

"We should go in. I'm sure Mom saw us pull up she'll come out in a second." She said timidly.

"Just one more thing; I've wanted to try this all night and--" Kendra leaned in cutting him off. He wanted to take a moment to smirk; she wanted to try this too. But instead impulse took over. The baseball cap fell to the ground between them. His arm wrapped around her waist to draw her closer. He closed the gap and they smashed their noses.

"Ow!"

"Sorry." He tried again cocking his head to the side enough to avoid a repeat. This time their lips met. The kiss lasted a few seconds, but to them seemed to encompass a life time. He pulled away and picked up her hat. "Let's get you inside." He suggested as if this were a novel idea. Kendra nodded letting him open the door for her.

"Mom? We're home." She called.

"Kitchen." Autumn responded and the two shuffled in. "Did you have a good time?" she asked.

"Eh, good a time as anyone can have with Luke." Kendra shrugged. Luke nudged her playfully with his shoulder.

"Hey! I'll have you know Denny thinks I'm simply the greatest person to ever live."

"Denny thinks there is a monster in the dryer who feeds on gym socks." Kendra pointed out.

"He's right about that one. Now the little dust devil he thinks lives under the couch isn't real." Autumn chimed in.

"I gotta get home. I'll see you guys tomorrow." Luke promised waving.

"Night, Luke." Autumn called after him. Kendra didn't respond at all watching him leave. "So should I see when I can book the church?"

"MOM!"