And another one! 3 (Happy early Halloween)
Alex.
They made it Stanford way past midnight; Sam and Dean had discussed their Dad's coordinates while Alexandra slept in the backseat. When they arrived Alexandra was already awake, Sam sighed before getting out of the Impala.
"Are you sure you don't wanna come in?" he asked, Alexandra smiled at him.
"Nah, Jess is probably sleeping and you need to sleep too, good luck in your interview tomorrow, remember that Dean and I are counting on you to get us out of jail someday" she said, Sam laughed.
"Right" he said as he got out, Alexandra got out of the car too and hugged her big little brother before getting in the passenger seat, Sam leaned the window when she closed the door.
"Call me if you find him?" he asked, Dean nodded "And maybe I can meet up with you later, huh?"
"Yeah, all right" Dean said, Sam nodded and patted the car door before starting to walk away, Alexandra gave Dean a look and Dean leaned over the seat "Sam?" he asked, Sam turned back "You know, we made a hell of a team back there" Dean said with a smile, Sam smiled back.
"Yeah" Sam said, Alexandra waved at him as Dean drove off.
"I'll miss him," said Alexandra as Dean drove away from Stanford, Dean looked at her.
"Yeah, me too" he said, they both stayed silent for a while.
"Dean, do you think" she started saying but he shushed her and took a look at his watch.
"Something's not right," he said before turning the car around, Alexandra looked at him confused.
"Dean?" she asked until she too felt something wrong.
"Sammy" they both said together.
Dean hit the gas and they made it back to Stanford in record time, Dean and Alexandra cocked their guns when they saw the group of students out running, they both ran towards Sam's apartment. Dean kicked the door down and they both ran in to Sam's bedroom.
"SAM!" screamed Dean as he ran in, Alexandra closed behind.
"Oh god" she said under her breath as she looked up and saw Jessica burning on the ceiling.
Dean thrust Sam into her arms and she finished pulling him outside the apartment, Dean close behind pushing Sam out of the way too. They made it to the parking lot as policemen and firemen arrived, Dean and Alexandra pushed Sam towards the impala. The elder Winchesters exchanged glances.
"Sammy" said Alexandra softly, Sam looked at her, anger etched in his face, she grabbed his face in her hands "We'll kill the fucker Sammy, we will" she said softly while Dean watched, Sam nodded; she looked at Dean and nodded at him.
Alexandra let Sam go and went to talk to one policeman that was near.
"Excuse me officer," she said getting his attention, the policeman was young.
"Yes miss?"
"I, we just arrived and that's my brother's apartment that's burning sir," she said, the policeman looked at her sadly.
"I'm really sorry miss," he said.
"My brother and I were celebrating that his interview for the scholarship is later today, his girlfriend stayed in, Jessica, is she okay?" she asked already knowing the answer, the policeman looked at her surprised.
"There was a person inside?" he asked her; she tried her best to look scared.
"I don't know we just made it home, Sammy, he talked to Jess earlier but she was fine, she joked about the bet that she and I had going that we were not going to make it back in town in time for the interview, so Dean, my other brother who was driving was going to prove her wrong, is she okay?" she asked, the policeman looked troubled.
"Wait here a second" he said before walking back to his partners.
Dean walked up to her.
"What are you doing?" he asked, she looked at him.
"Creating Sam's alibi, we don't want people thinking that Sammy killed Jess or ran leaving her behind" she whispered, Dean nodded at her as the policeman came back.
"Is this your brother Sammy?" he asked, she shook her head.
"This is Dean, my older brother, Sammy's the youngest" she explained, "Dean is trying to tell Sammy that everything's fine, right?" she asked hopefully, the policeman grimaced.
"No one has seen Jessica yet, and the fire is still going, I'm really sorry" he said sympathetically, Alexandra looked down then at Dean, who nodded and walked back to the car and Sam.
"Will it take long to know? Jessie was kind of my friend too, I mean she was dating my little brother" a tear escaped her eyes, the girl Jessica hadn't deserved to die, not in that way, the policeman cleared his throat and Alexandra wiped the tear away.
"I really can't give you a real answer right now, I'd suggest that you and your brothers find a place to crash for the night and tomorrow we could maybe settle what happened" he said, Alexandra nodded and fished a strip of paper and a pen from her pocket, she wrote her phone number down and handed it to the policeman.
"That's my number, if you find anything about Jessie, no matter the time please give me a call, my mother, she died in a fire when me and my brothers were children, I don't know if Sammy could take another hit like this" she said softly, the policeman nodded and took the piece of paper.
"I will call if we find something, I promise" he said, she smiled at him "I didn't catch your name miss"
"Alex Winchester sir" she said, he nodded and she walked back to Dean and Sam.
"Everything okay?" asked Dean, she nodded and looked at Sam.
"The policeman suggested that we better find a place to crash, he'll call me if they find anything" she said, Dean nodded and Sam looked at her angrily.
"What will they find, we know who did it" he said, Alexandra stepped up to him poking his chest with her finger.
"Yeah, we do, but all the others don't, you were already in the apartment when it happened, I'm trying to protect you here, giving you an alibi so you wont go to jail for murder Sammy, so now you'll do as I tell you while we figure a way to find and kill whatever killed Jessie and Mom" she said, Sam looked defeated and nodded, she looked at Dean "Let us find a motel to crash and speak freely"
Dean opened the driver's door and got into the car, Alexandra made Sam get in the backseat and she got into the passenger's seat. They found a nice motel close to Stanford, Alexandra paid for their room in cash as it would've been dangerous to use the credit cards. It was a room with three queens, Alexandra threw her bag into one of the beds and sat on the edge, Sam and Dean walked in after her, Dean locking the door behind him.
"Okay, so no Dad, Jessie is dead, still no Dad, probably the thing who killed our mother is around, no Dad, and we're onto nothing, oh and Dad is hunting the thing but its not here" she said, frustration in her voice, Sam and Dean were sitting on the motel room chairs.
"But why come after Sam's girlfriend, Jessica was not involved with anything supernatural" said Dean, Alexandra shrugged.
"Maybe its toying with us, I mean whatever it was it didn't kill mom for shits and giggles, and now Jess, I just, there's something that we're missing here" she said, Dean's face hardened and he nodded. Sam was silent.
"Maybe Dad did get near the thing, and it didn't like Dad poking around to close" Dean offered; she nodded.
"But what it is? What does it want with us? And most importantly, how do we kill it?" she asked, Sam and Dean exchanged glances "Did you tried calling Dad?"
"Yes," said Dean "He's still not answering"
"Fine, later today we can go scouring for clues, maybe even the policeman can give us a hint" she said, Sam and Dean exchanged glances but nodded, she stood from the bed and clapped her hands "Good, now off to bed with you two" she said, Dean raised an eyebrow at her, but complied.
Her phone rung exactly at seven in the morning, the policeman that she had talked to had called her confirming that they had found a body in the bedroom. Alexandra woke her brothers and they went to Stanford, the policeman was waiting for them in the parking lot.
"I'm really sorry," he said to them as they approached, Alexandra nodded solemnly and held Sam's hand in hers, "We have contacted her family, and the reason of the fire seems to be a gas leakage"
"I… thank you, do you know where the funeral services will be held?" Alexandra asked, the policeman shook his head.
"Although I heard a couple of students talking about a mass at the chapel, you could go there and ask" he said, Alexandra nodded and smiled at him.
"Thank you for calling me and informing us, I… we'll be going to the chapel" she said, the policeman nodded.
"Alex, miss, excuse me" he called as they were leaving; she turned around.
"Yes?" she asked.
"I talked around with the scholarship council and asked about your brother's interview, I know that with trauma comes hard times, but they have agreed to reschedule his interview if he so desires to take it" he said, Alexandra raised an eyebrow at him, the young man smiled "I lost my father to a fire five years ago and dropped out of classes as I came to terms with what happened, I promised myself to help people" he explained.
"Thank you" Sam said speaking for the first time "But I don't think I can, not right now"
"I know, they will wait, you can call the council whenever you feel ready to go back, your grades are really good Sam" the policeman said, Sam smiled at him and nodded.
An hour later found the Winchesters having breakfast in one of the restaurants around campus. After breakfast they headed to the chapel to pay their respects to Jessica, her parents were there and they gave Sam the evil eye until Alexandra walked up to them and told them a few hard truths. After the mass, they went back to the apartment to see if they could find clues, Dean tried calling John again to no avail.
The funeral was held three days after the fire, the siblings attended dressed in black, Sam and Dean wearing suits and Alexandra wearing a black dress with black tights. Alexandra and Dean watched from a safe distance as Sam placed a bouquet of lilies on Jessica's tombstone.
"Do you think he'll be okay?" asked Alexandra quietly, Dean looked at her and then at Sam.
"He's a Winchester, he'll be fine" he said; Alexandra nodded.
"I found the place of Dad's coordinates, is Colorado, a place in the middle of nowhere" she said, that got Dean's interest.
"Why would he send us there?" he asked, Alexandra shrugged.
"As far as I can tell he wants us to finish a job there, Blackwater Ridge, Lost Creek is just trees, nothing else, small town, people love hiking, a kid got lost in the woods couple days ago, sounds more like a case to me than dad going up to hide in some woods" she explained, Dean frowned.
"So he disappears and saddles us with a case?" he asked, she nodded.
"That's what it looks like" she said, Dean seemed to consider for a moment.
"If this is really a case Sam wont want to come, he wants to find dad and kill the thing that killed Jessica" he said, Alexandra looked at Sam that was crouching next to the headstone.
"Well he needs to come, maybe our next clue to finding dad is there," she pressed; Dean chuckled.
"So what's this a scavenger hunt for Dad?" Dean asked; Alexandra shrugged.
"You're the one who talks to Dad the most, if someone knows his MO that's you Dee, so if Dad's about to lead us in a crazy chase around the country he probably has a reason"
"For Sammy's sake, lets hope that he does"