Happy New Year you crazy kids!
Alex
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Ps. Dialogue for this chapter has been take straight from the show, if you recognize it, its not mine :)
A Wendigo in Colorado had almost killed them. Almost was a stretch of the word, Alexandra had ended up with several sprained ribs and one hell of an attitude to follow. Then Dean had almost drowned in Lake Manitoc while rescuing in a kid from a ghost and if that hadn't been enough they had almost been victims of a plane crash orchestrated by demons of all things, and even though Alexandra had made fun of Dean afterwards for two days, she had a feeling that her good mood was not going to last. Then of course things hadn't been easy, as they had discovered that the legend of Bloody Mary was not just a legend, oh and their dad was still alive, just not contacting them, after dealing with Bloody Mary things were shaky with the siblings.
Sam still blamed himself for Jessica's death, no mater what Alexandra or Dean tried to tell him, he continued with his pity party and it was honestly driving Alexandra off the rails, thing that Dean noticed and tried to placate before Alexandra came to blows with Sam. Of course their discussion came to a halt when a friend of Sam's called him. Turns out there was a shapeshifter in town, good news for everyone involved and bad news for the shapeshifter was that crossing the Winchesters was a bad idea, crossing a Winchester woman that was not having the best months of her life, hadn't gotten laid in almost a year and had her period was almost a suicide mission.
Sam and Dean could only stand back and watch in horror as Alexandra had decimated the shapeshifter who had adopted her form and had tried to kill people with it, she had taken particular glee in burning the thing after she had gotten bloody and personal with it. It served as a reminder that while Winchester men were not to be trifled with, Winchester women were downright vicious. They had left the town after Alexandra had tricked the police into believing that she had been abducted by 'a tall dark haired man' that tried to rape and kill her, the man hadn't counted on Alexandra's dad being a marine and teaching her to defend herself, she had attributed the bloody carnage to shock and a few tears later the policemen had handed her back to her brothers telling them that psychological help could do wonders for victims.
Then of course Sam and Dean had killed the spirit of a hookman while Alexandra had decided to stand in the sidelines as her brothers worked the case, she was still angry at them for the shapeshifter case in which they had revealed that they had used her as bait. Then the Bugs case, in which Alexandra had to play the part of Dean's young wife to get information on the houses and then all the bugs, a thing that she hated with passion, Dean with his fear of flying, Sam and his fear of clowns and Alexandra and her mortal fear of insects and reptilians and several other animals; that case was probably Karma getting back at her for making fun of Dean's fear of flying.
She had been paralyzed in fear during the whole thing as bugs came in through the fireplace. And then she had ran for her life out of the house screaming about the insects, Dean and Sam had found her several hours later hiding in the impala under one of Sam's jackets in the backseat.
"Lexy?" asked Dean poking the jacket that seemed to be trembling.
"Dee, Is it over?" she asked; Sam and Dean laughed.
"Yeah, it's done" Dean said, she got off from under the jacket and sat on the seat, she ran a hand through her hair and took a deep breath.
"Never again, if there's a case that involves insects of any kind I stay behind preferably in another state altogether" she said, letting her head fall back to the seat.
"Deal" said Dean as he got into the driver's seat, Sam took the passenger seat and they hit the road.
The next thing on their list was visiting Kansas due to Sam having visions about their old house. Sam had been having weird dreams about their old house and the people who lived there now. Alexandra and Dean had been reluctant to go back to Kansas, but Sam had insisted, and so there they were, in Kansas in front of their old house.
"Dee, you okay?" asked Alexandra as they got out of the impala, Dean looked at her and then at Sam.
"Let me get back to you on that" he said as they walked to the front door, Alexandra knocked on the door and a young blonde woman answered.
"Yes?" she asked, Alexandra smiled at her and was about to say something when Dean started talking.
"Sorry to bother you, ma'am, but we're with the Federal"
"I'm Sam Winchester, and this is my brother, Dean and my sister Alex. We used to live here. You know, we were just drivin' by, and we were wondering if we could come see the old place," Sam said interrupting Dean, the woman smiled.
"Winchester. Yeah, that's so funny. You know, I think I found some of your photos the other night" she said, Alexandra looked surprised.
"Really?" she asked, the woman nodded and stepped aside
"Come on in" she said, the siblings walked inside the house and the woman, Jenny led them into the kitchen, there were two kids, a girl at the table and a toddler in his playpen, Alexandra couldn't help but to smile.
"Juice! Juice! Juice! Juice!" said the toddler as he said to his mother; Alexandra giggled.
"That's Ritchie. He's kind of a juice junkie" she said as she went to the fridge and pulled out a Sippy cup and went to hand it to Ritchie, "But, hey, at least he won't get scurvy" Jenny then walked over the girl "Sari, these are Sam, Dean and Alex. They used to live here"
"Hi" said the girl, Dean and Alexandra smiled and waved at her.
"Hey, Sari" said Sam.
"So, you just moved in?" asked Dean, Jenny nodded.
" Yeah, from Wichita" she answered; Dean nodded.
"You got family here, or….?"
"No. I just, uh….needed a fresh start, that's all. So, new town, new job, I mean, as soon as I find one. New house" Jenny answered, the siblings exchanged glances.
"So, how you liking Kansas so far?" asked Alex, Jenny smiled nervously.
"Well, uh, all due respect to your childhood home, I mean, I'm sure you had lots of happy memories here. But this place has its issues" she said, Sam looked at her confused.
"What do you mean?" he asked; Jenny shrugged.
"Well, it's just getting old. Like the wiring, you know? We've got flickering lights almost hourly" she explained.
"Oh, that's too bad, I mean, It's an old house, it was bound to happen, What else?" asked Alex, Jenny looked at her, relief in her features
"Um…sink's backed up, there's rats in the basement, " Jenny paused awkwardly "I'm sorry. I don't mean to complain"
"No its okay. Have you seen the rats or have you just heard scratching?" asked Dean, Jenny looked at him.
"It's just the scratching, actually" she answered.
"Mom?" asked Sari getting their attention, Jenny crouched down next to her "Ask them if it was here when they lived here"
"What, Sari?" asked Sam.
"The thing in my closet." Elaborated Sari, the Winchesters exchanged glances.
"Oh, no, baby, there was nothing in their closets, right?" Jenny asked them.
"Right. No, no, of course not" Sam answered, Jenny sighed.
"She had a nightmare the other night." She explained.
"I wasn't dreaming. It came into my bedroom and it was on fire," Sari said shocking the siblings.
They continued talking to Jenny and Alexandra asked if she could possibly check the boxes on the basement, Jenny nodded and led her downstairs. Alexandra saw a box labeled with 'pictures', she smiled softly and sat on the floor next to the box, she began pulling out albums out of the box, and a smaller metallic box.
"Alex, what is that?" asked Dean, Alex smiled softly and looked at him, tears in her eyes.
"I remember this box," she said softly, Dean went and crouched next to her while Sam watched from the staircase, "Mom, the day she died, I… she was looking through this box, her jewelry, what little she owned, I was helping her with the pictures"
"Alex" said Dean looking at her, she shook her head and smiled and raised her arms where several bracelets rested.
"She gave me this bracelet that day, I guess she forgot to put the album and the safe back upstairs" Alexandra said as she looked at her charm bracelet and frowned as she really examined the piece of jewelry she had been wearing for most of her life, "This has a pentagram"
"What?" asked Dean; she showed him the bracelet that had several charms.
"Mom gave me this because I thought it was pretty, it has a pentagram, was mom involved with the supernatural?" she asked; Dean shrugged.
"Maybe she thought it was pretty" Dean said, Alexandra was not completely convinced, but returned the safe and albums to the box and stood.
"We're taking that box," she said as she went to walk up the stairs, Sam and Dean exchanged glances, but Dean took the box.
After leaving the house they went to refill the tank of the Impala, after reminiscing of the night of the fire that killed their mother Dean excused himself to go to the bathroom, leaving Alexandra and Sam behind.
"Dean seems troubled" Said Sam after Dean walked out of earshot, Alexandra sighed.
"He is," she said and looked at Sam "This place its were our perfect life got destroyed Sammy, you were too small to remember, but Dean was four and I was kind of a prodigy at two, so I remember some things, and finding that box, I still have to go through it, It's hard for us Sammy"
"I'm sorry" he said, she smiled sadly at him.
"Don't be, you deserve to know about mom, you deserved to know her as Dean and I did, we all deserved a better life, this, too, shall pass" she said with a small smile, Sam frowned at her.
"Are you quoting the bible to me?" he asked, she laughed.
"No?...Maybe, you know I went to Sunday school while we visited pastor Jim" she said, Sam laughed.
"Really, why?"
"I don't know, Pastor Jim is really cool and I liked the way he taught about God and stuff, he gifted me a bible when I was a kid, I still have it, not that I'm a devoted catholic or anything, but I like to believe that God's there" Alex explained softly.
"Do you pray?" Sam asked and she shook her head.
"God's omniscient and omnipotent and I guess I'm still mad at him for letting mom die and let our dad become a hunter, so I don't really pray"
"That's valid" said Sam, she nodded, they stayed in a comfortable silence until Dean returned.
After the Gas station they visited the Auto Repair Shop where their Dad used to work and talked to the owner, a man named Mike. Alexandra decided to stay in the car while Dean and Sam did the talking as supposedly the man knew John and had knew them when they were kids. From Mike they learned that John had visited a physic and so their next stop was Missouri Moseley. They went to her apartment and waited for their turn outside, she walked outside talking to a man.
"All right, there. Don't you worry 'bout a thing. Your wife is crazy about you" she said to the man, Alex, Sam and Dean stared at her, the man thanked her and she closed the door and turned to the Winchesters" Whew. Poor bastard. His woman is cold-bangin' the gardener."
"Why didn't you tell him?" asked Dean, Missouri gave him a look.
" People don't come here for the truth. They come for good news. Well? Alex, Sam and Dean, come on already, I ain't got all day." Missouri walked into the house leaving three confused Winchester, they shared a look and walked in after her "Well, lemme look at ya" she said with a smile, "Oh, you boys grew up handsome," She said to Sam and Dean and then turned solely to Dean "And you were one goofy-lookin' kid, too." She then turned to Alex "And you, you grew up beautifully, such a cute little girl you were" Alex and Sam smiled while Dean glared, Missouri then grabbed Sam's hand "Sam, Oh, honey…I'm sorry about your girlfriend, And your father he's missin'?"
"How'd you know all that?" asked Sam, while Alex and Dean looked shocked.
"Well, you were just thinkin' it just now." She said nonplused, Alex and Dean shared a look.
"Well, where is he? Is he okay?" asked Alex, Missouri looked at her.
"I don't know"
"Don't know? Well, you're supposed to be a psychic, right?" Dean scoffed, Missouri glared at him.
"Boy, you see me sawin' some bony tramp in half? You think I'm a magician? I may be able to read thoughts and sense energies in a room, but I can't just pull facts out of thin air. Sit, please." The siblings sat on the sofa, Sam and Dean on each side and Alex in the middle "Boy, you put your foot on my coffee table, I'm 'a whack you with a spoon!" she told Dean; he looked offended.
"I didn't do anything" he said.
"But you were thinkin' about it." She told him, Sam and Alex smiled while Dean raised an eyebrow.
"Okay. So, our dad, when did you first meet him?" asked Sam.
"He came for a reading. A few days after the fire. I just told him what was really out there in the dark. I guess you could say…I drew back the curtains for him." Missouri explained.
"But what about the fire?" asked Alex.
"Do you know about what killed our mom?" Asked Dean after her, Missouri looked at the eldest Winchesters and raised an eyebrow.
"A little. Your daddy took me to your house. He was hopin' I could sense the echoes, the fingerprints of this thing" Missouri explained, Sam looked interested.
"And could you?" he asked, hope in his voice, Missouri shook her head, "What was it?" pressed Sam.
"I don't know. Oh, but it was evil" she said softly, the siblings exchanged concerned looks.
"We were there earlier today, there's a young woman and her kids living there, her daughter said that there was something on fire in her closet and well, with Dad missing and what happened to Jessie, there's just something that's not adding up, I've been feeling restless for a couple days, like something's going to happen" Alexandra explained, Missouri gave her a deep look as if trying to read her.
"So…you think somethin' is back in that house?" Missouri asked, Alexandra nodded, "I don't understand."
"What?" asked Sam.
"I haven't been back inside, but I've been keepin' an eye on the place, and it's been quiet. No sudden deaths, no freak accidents. Why is it actin' up now?" asked Missouri.
"I don't know, but like Alex said, Dad going missing and Jessica dying and now this house all happening at once it just feels like something's starting." Sam explained.
"That's a comforting thought" said Dean, Alexandra rolled her eyes at him.
Missouri and the Winchesters decided to visit the house. Missouri had a talk with Jenny and she led them into the house. They went to Sari's room and Missouri explained that the room used to be Sam's nursery. Alexandra had adopted a far off look in her eyes as she looked around while Dean had pulled out his EMF reader.
Missouri told them about the two spirits that inhabited the house and told them that they were to put a concoction of herbs inside the walls to purify the house. They made Jenny leave with her kids and began to work. As soon as they began things started to get messy. Alexandra had taken the room that had been hers and Dean back when they were children, it was the toddler's room now, Alexandra grabbed her hammer and went to place the small bag with the herbs in the hole in the wall that she had made when a blanket attacked her, she thrashed on the floor as the thing tried to suffocate her until she grabbed one of her daggers and slashed through and placed the herbs quickly into the hole a white blinding light surrounding her, she let herself fall to the floor breathing heavily.
Dean walked into the room with a weary looking Sam and found her on the floor, he pulled her up and into a hug, she held onto him like a lifeline as she kept her breathing steady.
"You okay?" he asked, she nodded.
"Peachy" she said as she let go of Dean and pulled Sam into a hug "You look like hell Sammy"
"Right back at you Alex" Sam said with a tired smile, Alexandra hugged him tighter smiling into his chest; Dean placed a hand on her back.
"I'm guessing the spirits are not liking what we are doing," she said as she let go of Sam, Dean laughed.
"It tried to turn me into a strainer" Dean joked, Alexandra raised an eyebrow at him "And it tried to choke Sammy with a phone cord, what's your story?"
"Death by suffocation with a blanket" she said pointing at the remnants of the blanket, "Are we done here?" she asked, her brothers shrugged.
"Let's find Missouri" said Dean, Alexandra and Sam nodded.
A few hours later, after Jenny had arrived and they had picked up the mess they had made they said goodbye to Jenny and Missouri and left the house. Missouri had declared the place purified, but Sam seemed jumpy, so they decided to stand guard outside of the house in the impala.
"All right, so, tell me again, what are we still doin' here?" asked Dean as they looked at the house.
"I don't know. I just…I still have a bad feeling" Said Sam; Alexandra looked at him with concern.
"Why? Missouri did her whole Zelda Rubenstein thing, the house should be clean, it should be over" argued Dean, Alexandra rolled her eyes at him and hit his arm.
"Stop being rude" she said, Dean glared at her.
"Yeah, well, probably. But I just wanna make sure, that's all" Interrupted them Sam, Dean rolled his eyes, and Alexandra placed a hand on Sam's arm.
"It's okay Sammy, well make sure Jenny and her kids are fine" she said with a smile
"I could be sleeping in a bed right now" Dean said as he slid down on his seat and closed his eyes.
Sam and Alexandra kept looking at the house for a while until they saw Jenny screaming from the window in her bedroom.
"Dean. Look, Dean!" Sam said waking Dean up, they got out of the car and rushed into the house.
"You two grab the kids, I'll get Jenny" ordered Dean, Sam and Alexandra nodded.
"Get Ritchie, I'll get Sari" said Alexandra as she and Sam ran upstairs.
Alexandra ran into Sari's room, the figure on fire was standing by Sari's closet, Alexandra rushed to the bed and carried the girl telling her not to look, she and Sam made it downstairs at the same time placing both kids on the floor, Sam placed Ritchie on Sari's arm and told her to run out at the same time that something pushed Alexandra into a wall and Sam into another room. Alexandra heard the door closing abruptly and she could only hope that Sari had made it out safely, she felt herself being pushed into another room and slammed into something, no, not something Sam, the thing knocked her onto Sam. And then threw them onto the cabinets, finally pinning them to a wall.
Alexandra and Sam exchanged panicked looks as they couldn't move themselves, the power of the spirit being too strong. Dean barged into the kitchen with a gun as did the figure on fire, Dean raised his gun to shoot it.
"Dean no!" said Sam, Alex and Dean looked at him weirdly "I can see her now" he said as the fire vanished and suddenly their mother Mary was standing in front of them looking just like they remembered her.
"Mom?" asked Dean as their mother looked at him, a sad smile on her face, Alexandra watched as Dean's eyes watered and she felt a tear of her own making its way down her face.
"Dean" Mary said, Dean's eyes never left Mary as she turned around to her other children "Alex" Alexandra looked at her mother, tears in her eyes.
"Mommy" she said softly, Mary smiled at her before turning to Sam.
"Sam, I'm sorry" Mary said, Sam looked at her confused.
"For what?" Sam asked, Mary looked at him sadly, then looked up to the ceiling.
"You get out of my house. And let go of my children." She said before she burst into flames again, the fire flew up to ceiling before disappearing. The force holding Sam and Alexandra in place disappeared, Sam moved to help Alexandra who stumbled, and they walked up to Dean.
"Now it's over," Sam said as he handed a shivering Alexandra to Dean, Dean held his sister as they took a moment to accept what had happened.
They walked out of the house with Dean still holding Alexandra close to him. Jenny and her children were outside, Sam gave her the good over. Jenny nodded and invited them inside again. She put the children to bed and told the Winchesters that they could make camp in the living room till next day. Dean took the couch while still holding a passed out Alexandra, whether she had passed out from shock or exhaustion he and Sam didn't knew but decided not to bother her, Sam took the other couch and the pillows that Jenny had offered them.
Alexandra woke up the next day with her back in pain and nestled up to Dean, one of his arms thrown over her. She smiled as she took in his scent, leather, gunpowder and home.
"Hey" he said softly but still startling her, she looked up at him "You okay?"
"I will be," she murmured before burrowing her face in Dean's jacket, Dean pressed a kiss to her hair and she smiled again.
Jenny allowed them to use the bathroom, and they helped with breakfast that morning, Jenny then handed them another box that she had found that had old VHS tapes that had names like "Dee's first Christmas" "Dee's First Steps" "Alex's first night at home" "Alex & Dee's Christmas" "Sammy's first bath" and so on, Alexandra took the box with a shaky smile and took it to the car placing it in the trunk next to the box she had taken at first.
They thanked Jenny for the pictures and the videos, and said their goodbyes to Missouri; Alexandra claimed the backseat; Sam and Dean had noticed that she had been rather subdued since seeing their mother's ghost, it worried them, but as long as she didn't do anything stupid they knew they were going to be all right.