Disclaimer: The Winchesters are not and will never be mine. Damn cruel world!

I must point out that in the universe that this story is taking place Sam never went to hell or lost his soul. Dean was a servant of God briefly.

CATCH YOU WHEN YOU FALL

Arandi knew that she shouldn't be mad at Dean. He was right she had to get used to someone defending her. No one had ever cared about her like that, that wasn't family. But Dean was her family now. She knew that they weren't really married but she had felt such an unforgettable sense of forever when he had said those vows to her and she had said hers back. She had long ago given up on ever having anyone in her life but here she was with Dean.

They had had a fantastic couple of days and Dean had shown her what passion really was. She was sure that no one else could make her feel like he did. She would never ever regret waiting. He was the one her, heart sang it to her. And if she had asked for a sign she had gotten it when Dean had given her that rose. Ever since her mom had told the story of the man and the rose Arandi had dreamed of finding the man that would do that for her. Hell her own mom told her Dean was the one by showing herself to him when he was catatonic.

She had nearly started crying when Dean handed her the rose his eyes sparkling waiting for her reaction. At first she thought that Jade must have told him the story but looking into his eyes she had seen the gesture had come from him from his heart and she didn't know if he could possibly understand how much it meant to her. Dean Winchester never ceased to amaze her or make her fall harder.

Dean this deadly hunter who feared nothing and protected the world like a warrior was the most romantic man she had ever come across. Who would think? Not to mention that the man knew exactly what he was doing in bed and then handsome as all creation to top it off. Arandi really didn't like to remind herself that Dean had gained all his experience from being with other women but she could just imagine how many women were out there that Dean had left a lasting impression on and wouldn't mind laying hands on him again.

She knew women wanted Dean that women would always chase him but he had chosen her and that was what mattered. She had seen him look at other women before they connected but he had never looked at any of them the way he looked at her.

So the intense jealousy that she had felt rip through her when she saw Jenna touching Dean had surprised her even though she saw with her own eyes that Dean was doing everything short of shoving the bitch on her ass to get her away from him.

Arandi had felt ashamed of herself when she had actually wondered what Dean would have done if she hadn't been with him. Dean was a lot of things but unfaithful would never be one of them. Arandi knew that with every fiber of her being. Dean's loyalty to her was set in stone and he didn't even have to say it out loud, it was in his eyes every time he looked at her. And he didn't have a damn thing to worry about when it came to her, there was not a man out there that would ever take her attention, her loyalty was set right next to his in the same stone.

Arandi had seen the look of anger that crossed Jenna's face when Dean rejected her and then she had tried to make him look like he was lying about flirting. Arandi had never wanted to hurt someone so much just on pretense. The fact that Jenna could fight just made it sweeter but Dean and his never ending protection mode had to get in the way. When Jenna hit Dean Arandi had lost it and would have hurt the woman seriously if Dean hadn't stepped in the way. He was right she would be facing attempted murder charges if not murder one, all because she wanted to protect Dean. There was nothing that she wouldn't do to keep him safe. Nothing.

She hadn't meant to yell at him she was mad at Jenna not him and she just wanted to walk it off but he wasn't about to let that happen in an unknown town. His mouth had said get in the car now or I'll walk beside you but his eyes had said get in the car now before I carry you. Arandi wouldn't even dare him, if she knew anything about Dean it was his stubborn streak. Do what he said or be looking at the world upside down. She sure didn't want that to happen as if she was a spoiled three year old throwing a fit.

She got in the SUV hating the tension that now sat between them brought on by some tramp who couldn't find her own man. Arandi felt Dean's frustration she just needed to wind down. She heard make up sex was the best. She had felt the car swerve a little and she looked toward Dean wondering what he was up too. He blinked hard a couple of times and suddenly he was pulling off the road and getting out of the car.

Arandi watched him as he leaned back against the SUV and she knew something was wrong. She hurried out of the car and was at Dean's side in an instant. Dean was trying to focus his chin to his chest she had lifted his head to get him to look at her but his eyes swam unfocused and he winced at her touch.

"Dean, what's wrong?" She asked worriedly latching onto his arm that he couldn't seem to lift. He cried out in pain and his eyes closed and she could feel him slipping. She tried to hold him up but his weight brought them both crashing to their knees. She gasped in pain as her knees hit pavement her right more than the other. Somehow she managed to sit and get Dean's head on her lap. Dean now unconscious was shaking and blood tinged the edge of his lips.

Arandi frantically reached for her phone and called Sam wondering why she wasn't dialing 911.

"Sam, please turn around something is wrong with Dean please hurry." She pleaded. She could hear Sam curse and her sister asking what was wrong as Sam busted a u turn. Arandi breathed in semi-relief when she saw the headlights heading towards them in mere minutes and then Sam was kneeling beside his brother assessing the situation.

"What happened?" He asked as he felt Dean's pulse.

Arandi told him everything that had happened since they left the bar.

Sam was frowning. "His heart is beating too fast; we need to get him to the hospital." As fast as possible Sam had Dean in the backseat of the SUV with Arandi, Sam got behind the wheel to drive while Jade followed in the modern Impala.

Dean's body was full of tremors as Arandi held him on her lap murmuring to him hoping that he could hear her. He moaned and his brows creased. Arandi laid her hand on his stomach and she could feel the spasms. Tears filled her eyes; she was filled with anxiety that anger had been the last thing between her and Dean. She couldn't lose him she just couldn't they had barely found each other even though they had been side by side for so long. Her chest felt tight and she breathed she couldn't let herself fall apart. Dean needed her and God knew she needed him.

Sam had no idea where the hospital was so he just drove into town and soon spotted the hospital sign. Once he reached the hospital he spared no time just deciding to carry his brother in himself.

The emergency room staff stared in disbelief as this very tall man walked in carrying an almost equally tall man barking out what he knew from many a hospital experience. Dean was taken away and the wait was on.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

The paperwork done, they waited the three of them pacing paths into the tile. Arandi was limping but no one dared to ask her if she was alright. She was about to come out of her skin, wondering if she had caused this.

Sam and Jade stood close watching her barely hold herself together. To Jade it was something completely new. She had seen her sister sit calmly through the worst possible scenarios but her already utter devotion to Dean had her being a total softy something Jade thought would never ever happen. Not that Dean wasn't devoted to her sister because the way he looked at her said it all, her sister had him heart and soul.

"Family of Dean Winchester?" No alias today.

The three of them headed to the doctor.

"Mr. Winchester?" The doctor addressed Sam.

"Sam please." Sam took the offered hand shake.

"I'm Dr. Michaels."

Sam introduced Jade as his wife and Arandi as Dean's.

The doctor who wasn't much older than Dean rubbed his face and sighed. "Sam I'm afraid that your brother has been poisoned."

"Poisoned?" The three of them replied in unison.

"Yes but we can't tell with what and we can't just give him a treatment without knowing for sure because that could be dangerous, do any of you have a clue?"

They all looked at each other stumped.

"We will keep running tests and hope that we can come up with an idea before….."

The' it's too late' hung unsaid.

"If we don't figure out what he was poisoned with within the next few hours his organs will start to shut down, so please if you can think of anything."

"Can we see him?" Arandi asked.

"Yes but just one at a time." Dr. Michaels offered sympathetically.

"You go first Arandi." Sam said before she could feel awkward.

"Thank you Sam." She whispered and followed the doctor.

Dr. Michaels opened the door for Arandi and then left them alone. She walked to Dean's side. Her eyes instantly stinging with tears, he lay so still and pale, his face bruised. The machines attached to him showed his heart over twice the normal rate and his blood pressure through the roof.

Arandi took his hand. He was still trembling and his brow creased in pain even in unconsciousness.

"I'm sorry Dean I couldn't protect you." She leaned to kiss him on his lips. Tears spilled from her eyes as her breathing hitched. "I was afraid to tell you that I loved you because I was afraid that something like this would happen that you would be taken from me as soon as I said the words to you out loud but it happened anyway." She kissed him again. "I love you Dean Winchester and if it's the last thing I do I will save you."

She had known from the second that the doctor said that he was poisoned what had happened, Jenna had poisoned him when he rejected her. She had knocked over Dean's beer then replaced it and she had had plenty of time to poison him, Arandi had covered well because come hell or high water Jenna was going to pay for what she had done to Dean and Arandi would make sure she didn't get to see another day.

She squeezed Dean's hand and walked out of the room never seeing Dean's eyes flutter open ever so briefly.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Arandi walked out of Dean's room in tears. "I need to get some air." She hitched as she walked past her sister and Sam. Jade started to follow. "Sam is going to need you." Arandi said. "I need to be alone."

Jade nodded.

Sam walked into the room with Dean, he hated this more than anything his brother motionless fighting for his life.

"Just how many free passes do we have left Dean?" Sam whispered, taking his brother's hand. He nearly fell on his ass when Dean suddenly gasped and his eyes flew open.

"Smy." Dean jumbled.

"Dean relax just relax man." Sam started to push the call button but Dean grabbed his hand with surprising strength.

"Sam, Arandi." Dean pushed.

"She went outside for a minute Dean."

Dean groaned loudly. "No Sam's she's gone." Dean breathed heavily.

Sam looked at his brother confused.

"She went after Jenna to save me." Dean hitched.

Realization hit Sam and he grabbed his phone dialing Arandi. She answered. "Arandi Jade is going to flip if you don't get back here." Sam huffed pacing.

"I have to do this Sam Jenna poisoned Dean and I have to find out what she used so they can save him, the minute I know I'll call you or text you." She hung up before Sam could utter another word.

"Son of a bitch." Sam growled and turned to his brother who was now to Sam's shock sitting trembling on the edge of the bed. "Dean what the hell do you think you're doing?" Sam pushed at him to get him to lie down.

Dean pushed Sam's hand away looking at his brother with sheer determination. "I'm going after her Sam I won't let her do this alone."

"Dean you are too sick to do anything!"

"Watch me!" Dean growled wincing at the effort.

Sam wasn't about to have any of it but Dean never knew how to play fair.

"What would you do if you were me and it was Jade?" Dean laid his best bright eyed puppy dog look on his little brother.

Sam bit hook, line and big brother. "Damn it Dean." His brother was getting better and better at that.

"I can't lose her Sammy." Dean whispered. He closed his eyes in pain and to blink back the tears that threatened to spill. He couldn't lose her; they had barely found each other.

Sam thought he had been saved when Dr. Michaels came into the room. He should have known better.

"Hey what's going on here?"

Jade had made her way in to see what was taking so long.

Sam hated this part. "My stubborn pain in the ass brother thinks that he's going after his wife." Sam looked at Jade and she knew.

"Mr. Winchester." The doctor started.

Dean huffed. "No offense doc but we are probably the same age so please cut the mister my name is Dean. " Dean was breathing fast as he talked stubbornly trying to stand.

"Ok then Dean. You need to lie back down you are much too sick for this."

"Doc my wife went after the person who did this to me and I have to find her."

"We can go look for her Dean." Sam offered.

"Sam if you think that I'm going to sit here and go crazy you don't know me as well as you think you do."

"Dean by all rights you shouldn't even be conscious let alone standing." Dr. Michaels insisted.

"Me and normal never have played nice together." Dean scoffed. "Dr. Michaels are you married."

"Yes I am." The doctor answered with a confused look on his face.

"Do you love your wife doc?" Dean continued.

"Yes very much so."

"So if you were in my situation what would you do?" Dean asked pointedly. Working the eyes again and they worked on doctors just as well as little brothers.

Dr. Michaels eyed Dean and shook his head. "This goes against everything I am supposed to do as your doctor Dean but fine you go and I will be waiting as soon as you know anything call me and I will have everything ready for when you come back. And Dean I hope you know that it's only going to get worse before it gets better."

"The story of my life." Dean huffed, already staggering to get dressed.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Jenna walked through the hallway to her apartment. She had just ended a short conquest and now had the man's wallet in her back pocket. The things men would do. The ones who didn't….. Dean crossed her mind as her anger flared. No one was that loyal. Right now he had to be super sick thanks to her beer addition, she smirked as she unlocked her apartment door and shut off her alarm. She turned on her lights and nearly screamed when she saw Arandi leaning coolly against her kitchen counter.

"How in the hell did you find out where I lived?" Jenna yelled.

"I do this for a living so you weren't that hard to find." Arandi said standing straight. "Needless to say you fucked with the wrong people."

"My alarm?" Jenna stuttered.

"Is a waste of your money or whoevers money you steal?" Arandi's intense blue eyes glared holes into Jenna. "So if a man rejects you add rat poison to his beer?" Arandi fished.

"Rat poison, that's just too common." Jenna snickered assessing Arandi. The fear showed on her face, Jenna could tell that Arandi wasn't there to chit chat. She had played this game for a long time and no one had ever come after her. She had weapons hidden in her apartment just in case and she ran through her mind which was the closest. She screamed when a knife came flying at her pinning her jacked to the wall.

"Looking for that?" Arandi asked coldly. "Go ahead and take it if you think it'll do you any good. Oh and the three other knives and the two guns are scrap metal now."

Jenna looked wide eyed at Arandi. She knew she was going to have to fight tooth and nail to get out alive. She pulled the knife free and tossed it aside. She could take Arandi she knew she could. With a new found confidence Jenna stepped toward Arandi. "I used barium to poison your beloved and no one will ever know but me." And she attacked.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Sam knew that the only things keeping Dean up and going were adrenalin and his utter devotion to anyone he cared about.

Dean leaned dazed against the back door of the newer Impala and grumbled that no other Impala could match up to his baby.

"Just how are we supposed to find her Dean?" Sam asked exasperated.

"GPS." Dean breathed with a wince. His body trembled and he coughed.

"Her phone is off Dean." Sam grumbled.

Dean sighed and rolled his eyes. "SUV GPS college boy."

Sam had forgotten that most new cars had GPS units installed. Jade instantly got to work on her laptop. Sam grinned thinking how smart Dean really was but how his brother always tried to make it as if Sam was the brain while Dean was the muscles.

Dean was smart very smart but his biggest problem was sitting still for too long, keeping Dean still was like trying to control the tides. He read well but didn't like to do it very much because reading meant sitting still. Dean loved to work with his hands and when it came to mechanics he was a genius. There was hardly anything machine wise or electrical that Dean couldn't fix or MacGyver.

Sam thought back to one of his fondest memories of Dean. They had finished a hunt and both of them had been hurt Dean more than Sam as usual but they had run out of money. Dean didn't think he could hustle pool when he wasn't a hundred percent so he had swallowed his pride Sam knew more for his little brother than for himself and had gone to a garage in the first town they came to and asked for a day of work.

The owner had taken one look at this tired bruised young man and had felt that if one of his sons ever needed help like this he hoped that someone would give it to him so the owner put Dean to work on an old junker figuring that it would keep him busy all day and then he would pay him and make sure that he had something to eat. Then he had laid eyes on Sam standing off to the side his hands stuffed in his pocket with that soulful look in his eyes and he put Sam to work too cleaning windows and pumping gas.

Sam would never forget the look on the owner's face or his brother's for that matter, when the junker put into Dean's hands roared to life. Dean stood grinning ear to ear grease smeared face. The owner stared in disbelief that Dean had fixed this car that had thus far been unfixable and many a mechanic had tried.

By the end of the day Dean had the car drivable and had been offered a full time job. Dean told the owner that he could stay for a week but they had to go home and take care of their sick dad.

The owner gave them free room and board. By the end of the week Dean had the garage completely caught up. The owner offered him high pay if he stayed but Dean was itching to get back to the hunt back on the road. The day they left the owner finally laid eyes on the Impala and had sighed.

"If I had seen her first I would have known from the start how good you are."

Dean had been as proud as a peacock. His baby was his pride and joy and he kept her purring. They left with a tank full of gas and ice chest full of food, five brand new tires and a couple of envelopes full of cash.

The owner swore Dean was the best mechanic he had ever witnessed. Sam hadn't missed that Dean was even prouder that he had earned this money by working for it.

Sam was brought back to the present by Jade's voice telling him she had found the SUV's location. He started the car and prayed they would find Arandi in one piece.

Arandi easily side stepped Jenna landing her elbow across Jenna's back and sent her sprawling to the floor. Jenna noticed Arandi favoring her knee and instantly swept her leg out from under her. Arandi fell but flipped up before her knee connected it gave Jenna enough time to run. She didn't want to fight in her apartment, too much to break and her neighbors would hear. She didn't plan on Arandi surviving.

Arandi followed her pulling her phone she turned it on and dialed as she chased Jenna. She called Sam not daring to talk to her sister.

"Barium Sam she poisoned him with barium." She hung up and put her phone back in her pocket.

Jenna had made a run for the roof and Arandi was at her heels. Jenna burst through the door and slammed it closed in Arandi's face causing her to fall back and her head connected with the railing as she fell. She felt the world tilt but she got up and kept going.

'Fat lady about to take the stage.' Arandi thought angrily as she kicked the door.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Sam had answered his phone in a hurry when he realized Arandi was calling him, before he could say a word she was breathing hard into the phone as if she was running. "Barium Sam she poisoned him with barium." And she was gone. Sam looked at Dean in the rearview mirror, Dean's eyes drilled into his with worry. Sam didn't say a word he dialed Dr. Michaels and told him what they had found out adding that they still had to find Arandi. Dr. Michaels promised to be ready for Dean's return.

Making a turn they soon spotted the SUV parked across the street from an apartment building. Sam parked behind it.

"Oh my God." Dean cried from the backseat.

Sam turned in a hurry thinking something was happening to Dean but his brother was staring out the window toward the building. Sam looked and gasped at the same time that Jade did. Arandi and Jenna were fighting on the roof of the building.

Dean stumbled out of the vehicle and headed toward the building. Sam and Jade ran past him and headed inside. Dean stopped his whole body pulsated in pain and his vision blurred. He looked up at the roof and froze. Arandi was at the edge and Dean watched in horror as Jenna shoved her off the building.

"Arandi!"

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Arandi had kicked the door to the roof rushed Jenna knocking her to the floor and just started hitting her punch after punch. Jenna had flipped her off her face bloody and tried desperately to hit Arandi but she was so scared she kept getting blocked.

Arandi's knee was protesting and slowing her down. She should have already had this fight over and done with a long time ago and the blow she had taken to her head wasn't helping either. Still she managed to keep the upper hand. She was getting pissed she didn't like being weak. She looked at Jenna who was afraid now realizing she had bit of more than she could chew. Arandi wasn't playing anymore she needed to get back to Dean. She saw when Jenna made the decision and at that very moment Arandi realized where she was standing. She was at the very edge of the building at the railing and Jenna came at her. Arandi tried to move but she wasn't fast enough. Jenna tackled her hard fully intent on knocking her off the building but Arandi be damned if she was going down alone, she latched onto Jenna and they both went over.

Arandi's mind filled with Jade, Sam, and Dean. She always thought when she died it would be at the hands or claws of something supernatural not a human.

She was glad that Jade had Sam.

She had had two days with Dean. Never had said the words I love you while looking into his beautiful green eyes. Had never had the chance to tell him that she wanted to toss her damn birth control out the window just to make him the father he so desperately wanted to be. She would never feel his arms again or his kiss.

She swore she heard him call her name as she fell back, she closed her eyes. Jenna screamed and Arandi felt the breeze sift by her and then the impact took her breath away.

TBC

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

I know I know I did again but I can't help myself and the worst is yet to come so if you don't like extreme hurt and angst you should go no further but for those of you who like this kind of thing please review.

Thank you for reading!