The process of teleporting was fast. One moment the person teleporting is standing in a cheap motel room, the next they're standing in a garage full of classic cars watching one of their closest friends from childhood dry heave into an old, metal trash can. Ana shook her head as she watched Kellen, "It wasn't that bad, stop being such a baby. At least you haven't eaten anything yet this morning, doing that on a full stomach when you're not used to it is so much worse."
He raised his head up enough to glare at her before his body trembled and he lowered his head back down. Connor stood at Ana's side, feeling bad for Kellen as he dealt with the first form of magic his body had come in contact with. "You know, you could make him feel better." he told Ana in a soft tone, wondering why she hadn't done so yet.
"Oh, I know, but I figured a couple of minutes of feeling sick wouldn't kill him. Not after how many nights he's gotten me so drunk that I feel like death the next day." She explained with a small smile before stepping away from him and toward Kellen. "But I'm not entirely cruel, I always planned on making it stop." Standing just behind her friend, she placed a hand on his back and closed her eyes. As she advanced with her healing magic, she could do a lot without an actual spell or ritual if the person's life wasn't in danger. A small transfer of energy within his body would make Kellen feel normal again and they could get on with their morning.
It took all of a couple of minutes before he was standing up and looking down at her, "Thanks." His voice was a little hoarse, but he felt fine other than a little freaked out. It's one thing when someone says they're a witch, it's another thing completely when they teleport God knows how far away from home, with him in tow, and then take away the nausea racking his system.
Ana gave him a soft smile, "You ready for round two?" she turned and walked over to her car, which was parked just a short distance away. "This time won't affect you as bad since we're technically moving the car and we're just along for the ride."
"Also, since you've been exposed to magic a couple of times, it should slowly become easier to handle." Connor explained, waiting for Kellen to follow Ana before he began to walk next to him. Though he didn't have many friends other than Ana's family and his coven mates, he felt that he and Kellen were beginning to form a friendship. "First few times with a completely human body is always a little unsettling for the person."
Kellen shook his head, all of this was still a little hard for him to process. He had actual proof that witches and angels existed, plus from what Dean and Sam had been talking about all sorts of other monsters were real too… It was a lot to wrap his head around. "Why didn't it affect me like that the first time, back when you first found me? And where the hell are we?" He questioned, being able to take in the garage they were in now that his head wasn't buried in a trashcan.
"Kansas." Ana answered, opening the driver side door of her car. "This is where we live… kind of. I technically still live on a college campus and Connor has an apartment in New Orleans, but my dad and uncle live here. Now that I think about it," she turned her attention to Connor, "I should probably get a hold of the admissions office and let them know I'm not coming back. Get the rest of my stuff out of my dorm too."
Connor nodded, "Probably a good idea sweetheart, but honestly it can wait a while if it needs to. We kind of have a lot on our plates right now. Jade's going to have a new plan eventually."
"Don't remind me." Ana sighed as she got in her car, waiting for the other two to get in as well. Turning to look at Connor once he was seated she pulled the keys out of her pocket and then shifted through them until she had the right one. "Let's make a deal. No more talk of Jade or Michael or Lucifer until we're done with our mini vacation. We can worry about all of that when we have an idea of what the next plan is, but until then I would really like to handle this stuff with Kellen's disappearance and then enjoy some time in my hometown."
"Deal." Connor agreed, waiting a moment as he watched her put the key in the ignition. "Hey, Red? You know that we're not driving out of here, right?"
She paused, seeming to realize what she had been doing, "Well, good thing it doesn't matter if we teleport it while it's running." Ana shrugged and started the engine, choosing to ignore the soft snicker Connor was attempting to hide in the seat next to her. Glancing in the rearview mirror, she noticed that Kellen seemed to be a little shocked, "You okay?" she questioned, turning to look at him.
"Michael and Lucifer? Like the angels? Lucifer as in Satan?" He questioned, face paling as he spoke.
"Uh… yeah." She glanced quickly at Connor before looking back to Kellen, "We kind of left a few things out last night. I didn't want to tell you too much at once and have you completely freak out."
Kellen looked over at her, his expression slowly changing from shock to determination. "You have until we get to my parent's house to tell me everything."
Ana sighed, she knew the look on his face well and she wouldn't get out of telling him exactly what had been going on. Offering her hand to Connor, they held on tightly and used the contact to connect their powers. She was the one to initiate the teleportation, since she knew exactly where she wanted them to appear at and he only had a near location. It was just as quick this time and thankfully the barn was still just as empty as she had assumed it would be. "Alright, so you're getting the short version of everything." she informed him before waving a hand to open the large barn door so they could leave.
"Trust me, the long version would take a trip across the country." Connor commented before Kellen could even think to argue.
"Fine." Kellen sat back in his seat, "So give me the short version."
Pulling the car out of the barn, down a short dirt road and toward the almost empty main road she tried to think of how to wrap everything that had happened into a 'short version'. As she turned onto the street she began to speak, "So I started having visions just after my eighteenth birthday about my dad and uncle, though I didn't know they had any relation to me at the time. So we meet, they leave, I go to Kansas to meet with another psychic and have a vision of Dean in trouble. Que first demon attack in a line of many. Spent a few days with them at the bunker, that's where we just were by the way, anyway we came to find out three things… I'm wanted for some old school ritual that requires me to be bled dry, I'm a witch, and I'm Dean's daughter. We do a bunch of research, go up against more demons, decide I need to learn to control my powers, que meeting Connor." she paused to take a breath, glancing back at Kellen to make sure he was still following.
"Keep going." He told her, making sure to process what he was being told slowly.
She nodded, "So Connor and I work on my magic, I go up against more demons, and we think that's the end of it, but it's not. Turns out there was a Knight of Hell leading the whole thing, so we have to go up against him, Sam almost died doing that-"
"Don't forget about John." Connor interjected.
"Right! So before the Knight of Hell, we met up with my dad and uncle's friend Charlie who was on a weird hunt. Turns out she's up against a bunch of demons and a weird ghost. Well this is when we found out that I had Gabriel's grace. We go to take care of the demons, come across the ghost who happens to be my dead grandfather, but he was sent down from Heaven to help with the Knight of Hell situation. So we take out Valac, then things were pretty normal for a while. I started school, then decided to go hunting on my own, then we caught word from our friend Garth of some weird stuff going down with a devil's gate in Wyoming. Turns out a demon named Jade was trying to release Lucifer from his cage. So we go to deal with that and Brandon shows up, he was a demon by the way, I killed him… Anyway, we deal with the gate issue, but I ended up getting really hurt and had to be taken to the hospital because my magic was keeping both the angels and Connor from healing me. I was in a coma for three days and then when I woke up, Gwen called and we came to help look for you." She let out a huff. Toward the end she had begun to talk faster and not breathing as much. Taking a couple of deep breaths, she looked to Connor, "Did I cover all of the important stuff?"
He gave a short laugh, "I think so." he nodded, thinking over what all she had said, "You know, you should be one of those people that writes Spark Notes."
Ana laughed, "I think I've got enough going on in life." she glanced back at Kellen, being able to see that he was trying to process everything she had just said. "If it makes you feel any better, my dad and uncle have stopped the apocalypse already, so it's not like we're going into this blind."
"The apocalypse?" He questioned with wide eyes. What kind of family was she born into? Who deals with monsters, demons, and the freaking apocalypse?
Connor nodded, "Yep. Sam is actually Lucifer's vessel, to stop him the first time Sam had to throw himself into Hell." he had heard the story a handful of times by now.
"Okay. Let's… uh deal with my family and stuff, then we can come back to Satan and the apocalypse that apparently almost happened." Kellen rubbed his hands over his face and then shook his body as if to rid himself of the uncomfortable feeling that all of this new information was causing him.
"Good plan, because we're here." Ana told them as she parked on the street outside of the house. "You ready to do this?" She asked as she cut off the engine and turned to look at Kellen in the backseat.
He gave her a small nod, "Yeah. Let's go." Opening his door he stepped out and walked toward the house, not waiting for either of them to follow him. He walked up the stairs and didn't bother knocking, just opened the door and stepped through. "Mom! Dad! I'm home!" he called, turning over his shoulder to see that Connor and Ana were right behind him.
"I'm sure that's the best way to start this whole thing." She told him sarcastically, watching as everyone came running toward the front door from different parts of the house.
Callie was the first to him as she came barreling down the stairs and basically threw herself at her brother. Her arms were wrapped tight around his neck and her legs were wrapped around his waist, something she had done to him since she was a toddler. She buried her face against his shoulder began to cry in relief, her body wracked with sobs which caused Kellen to hold her tighter. "It's okay, Callie, I'm here." he assured her as he moved further into the house so that Ana and Connor could come in. Both of his parents rounded the corner seconds later with Gwen on their heels and the moment Monica's eyes landed on her son she began to cry as well. Soon the whole family was surrounding Kellen in one large hug while Ana and Connor kept themselves back and just watched the entire thing.
-A-
By the time Sam and Dean were done with the local police and had made their way to the Feragen residence the family, along with Connor and Ana, were sitting in the living room and the tension in the room was thick. Ana had let them into the house and was leading them to the almost full room as Monica spoke up, "I just don't understand why you won't tell us exactly what happened."
"Mom, just drop it. We've been over this." Kellen pleaded with her, tired of repeating the fact that he didn't want to talk about what had happened.
Ana cleared her throat, pulling everyone's attention to herself, Sam, and Dean. "Everyone this is my dad, Dean, and my uncle, Sam." she introduced, watching as Hank rose from the couch where he had been seated next to his wife and walked over to them.
Though he wasn't more than four or five years older than Dean, Hank eyed him as if the man in front of him was much younger than himself. He extended his hand once he was close enough, "Hank Feragen, pleasure to meet you." he introduced himself, eyes carefully watching the man that was Ana's father.
"Dean Winchester." Ana's father spoke as he clasped the other man's hand in his own and gave it a firm shake.
Looking back and forth between the man that had been the closest thing she had to a father for the first eighteen years of her life and her actual dad, Ana didn't think either of them was going to back down from the alpha male showdown that seemed to have started without much cause or a warning. Thankfully Monica walked over and began to defuse the situation. "Welcome to our home." She smiled at Sam and Dean while putting a hand on her husband's shoulder, "My name is Monica, it seems you've already met Kellen…" she trailed off, still trying to figure out how these men and Ana had found her son. "and these are our daughters Gwen and Callie."
Gwen stood up from the couch, pulling Callie with her and Ana caught the look on her best friend's face. "Why don't you let us get some coffee for everyone, then we can sit down and explain some things?" Ana offered, trying to herd Gwen away from Dean and Sam before she said what Ana knew she was thinking.
"That sounds like a great idea." Monica offered with a smile, "Come have a seat, we're so curious about how you and Ana came to find each other." She directed the men to the seats that Gwen and Callie had emptied.
Ana grabbed onto Gwen's arm and pulled her toward the kitchen, knowing that Callie would follow. "Your dad is so-" Gwen began, but Ana spun around and used her hand to cover her friend's mouth.
"Don't you dare say the word that is about to come out of your mouth." Ana warned, "If you ever, ever finish that sentence while I am in the room I will start telling people every embarrassing thing about you I can think of."
Gwen's eyes widened slightly and then she nodded quickly, thankful when Ana dropped her hand. "Hot. Your dad is hot." She spoke with a wide grin before moving past Ana and into the kitchen, just nearly dodging a playful slap from her friend.
"Ugh, why?" Ana groaned, glaring at Callie as she laughed at them, before following after Gwen. "Seriously, can you refrain from mentioning that you think my father is attractive for the rest of my visit?"
Callie jumped up on the counter, she had calmed down since her breakdown when she first saw her brother, now she was beginning to act more and more like herself. She looked at Ana, "How long are you going to be staying?" she questioned. It had been so long since either of them had spent much time with Ana that they would all be glad if she stayed for a while.
"Connor and I are going to stay for as long as we can. There's a bunch of stuff going on with my family right now, but until they need us to come back, we'll be here." Ana answered with a wide smile at how her answer seemed to make Callie happier.
"Speaking of Connor." Gwen spoke up as she started the coffee pot, "That accent can do things to a girl. So, the two of you are dating, right?" she questioned, turning to lean against the counter the coffee maker was on.
Ana turned and headed toward the cupboard that held their coffee mugs, taking a moment to chose her words carefully. "Yep." she finally settled on, knowing that Gwen wouldn't just leave it at that.
"How long have you been together?" Callie asked, her legs swinging off the side of the counter. "He seems very attentive to what you're doing, it's clear that he cares a lot for you." she added, having noticed it when they had been in the living room.
Ana smiled softly, keeping her back to them as she got enough mugs out for everyone. "It's been about a year. We broke up for a short stint while I was away at college and he was working, but some stuff happened and it's brought us back together."
"You're not pregnant, are you?" Gwen asked suddenly, that being the first thing her mind landed on when she mentioned 'stuff' that brought them back together.
"What?" Ana asked, shocked, "No! I'm not pregnant." she shook her head, turning around to look at her friends. "Even if I was, that's not something I would let keep me in a relationship I didn't want to be in and you should know me better than that."
Gwen shrugged, "Well then what stuff brought you back together?" she pried, it wasn't like Ana to not tell her every detail of everything. Though they had been separated for some time, it was a silent understanding that things never changed between the two within their friendship.
Almost dying. Being soulmates. Evil in the world trying to put an end to life as we know it. Ana knew she couldn't tell either of the girls that, she wouldn't drag them into the world she now lived in and if she had her way they both would stay completely unaware of it. Just like Kellen would have if Ana could have had it the way she wanted it. "There's been some family stuff going on and in the time we were together, Connor basically became family, so he's involved in everything. We knew when we ended things that neither of us really wanted to, it just would have been too hard to continue with our relationship with the direction our lives were taking us."
"Does he make you happy?" Callie asked in the same innocent way that she asked everything. Since the moment she was able to talk it seemed that the girl was goodness personified. She never caused trouble, did amazing in school, and never tried any of the normal teenager stuff that got both of her siblings in trouble.
Ana smiled up at her, she had missed Callie, "He does, really happy."
Callie returned her smile and seemed content with her answer, not needing to hear anything else about the relationship. "I like him. He seems really nice and his accent is super cool." she commented, jumping off of the counter to start helping with all of the coffee.
"Cool?" Gwen questioned, turning to grab the now full coffee pot, "His accent is sexy and those muscles, you can basically see them through his shirt. If I didn't love you so much I would try to steal him from you." she teased, not knowing that Connor was headed their way though Ana could sense him.
"I'm kind of attached to Ana." He spoke as he entered the room, having heard Gwen just before he had turned the corner. He shot Ana a grin and walked over to her, wrapping an arm around her waist, "I came to see if you guys needed help carrying everything."
Ana raised an eyebrow, "Are you sure it wasn't to escape the room? I have no doubt that there's some not so subtle measuring going on in there."
"Measuring?" Callie questioned, genuinely confused about what anyone felt like they needed to measure.
Gwen laughed softly, her little sister's naivety was never boring, "Their man parts, baby sister. Ana is suggesting that dad and Dean are trying to prove who is more of a man."
"It's actually settled down quite a bit. Monica quickly pointed out that neither of them needed to prove anything and that you clearly love both of them." Connor told Ana, "Though I do think you're going to need to have a talk with your dad when this is all over, we all know he doesn't like to be reminded of the time he's missed in your life."
Ana sighed, "I honestly didn't think it would be so weird. Yes, Hank has been like a father to me for years, but no one could replace dad and he should know that by now." Shaking her head, she thought she would have to talk with Sam about it before she talked with her dad.
"Alright. It's all ready." Gwen announced as she filled the last mug, "Everyone grab a couple of mugs and head back toward the living room." She directed them with ease, having always been the bossy one out of the group. After making sure that everyone was each carrying a mug or two, she led them back out to the living room and into what appeared to be a much more relaxed conversation that had everyone laughing softly.
As the began to hand out the coffee, Hank pulled himself together enough to continue on with the story he had been telling. "It sounds bad, but her hair had the strangest shade of green in it for so long."
Ana's eyes went wide as she realized what they were talking about, "I leave the room for ten minutes and you're already retelling my worst childhood memories." she glared at Hank. There weren't enough seats for everyone, with Hank and Monica on the loveseat, Sam and Dean each in a chair, and Kellen sitting on the longer couch with only two free spots left. Gwen moved to take a seat by her brother and Callie perched on the arm of the couch, leaving one seat. Ana sent Connor a silent message to take it and once he did, she walked over to sit by his feet, using his legs to lean against.
"We joked about her celebrating Christmas early for weeks." Gwen added with a small chuckle, remembering it clearly. "That was just the beginning of a very long streak of terrible pranks between these two though." she gestured between Ana and Kellen.
Leaning her head back on Connor's knees, Ana shook her head and rolled her eyes. "I feel like I missed an important part to this story." He told her, raising an eyebrow with curiosity.
She sighed, "When we were younger, I think I was seven at the time, Kellen thought it would be hilarious to put blue temporary dye in my hair while I was staying here one night. Turns out that if temporary dye is left in all night, it tends to not want to wash out. After the first couple of times of washing it, the blue turned to a terrible shade of green." As she explained the story, she turned her head to the side so she could see Kellen and glare at him.
"That's nothing compared to the night before homecoming day my senior year when you covered my face in makeup then turned off my alarm so I didn't have time to notice while I was running out the door to get to class on time. I didn't know anything was wrong until I slid into homeroom and everyone started laughing at me." Kellen pointed out.
Everyone laughed at that, Sam and Dean glancing at each other as the stories reminded them of their prank wars together. "In Ana's defense, you looked great. That blue eyeshadow really made your eyes pop." Callie teased.
Gwen nodded in agreement, "I think that's the day we realized how much being a competition dancer had done for your skills with makeup. You used to have no clue about any of it, then you go through two seasons of competing and you're a master at it."
"Well yeah, have you seen the amount of makeup that goes onto those dancers." Ana shook her head, "I think my pores are still clogged from doing it for so many years."
"Oh!" Monica jumped slightly as she remembered something, "Speaking of your dancing. Angelica has been asking about you. If you're going to be in town for a while you should stop by the studio and say hi."
Ana nodded, "I should have time while I'm here." she told her, thinking about all the things she wanted to do while her and Connor had the time.
The conversation moved away from childhood pranking to how life had been for Ana while with her family and how everyone in the Feragen family had been doing. Dean and Hank seemed to be actually getting along after Monica had shared her words of wisdom with both men and that made her smile. They had been sitting around for a while just talking when Ana turned to glance at the clock. "I should probably make my way over to Heather's." she stated as she stood up from the floor.
"Do you know how long you'll be staying in town?" Monica asked as everyone began to stand up so they could say goodbye.
Ana and Connor shared a glance before she turned back to Monica, "We're not sure exactly, but another couple of days at least."
"You should come over for dinner later, invite Heather. We can order pizza and spend some time together." Hank said, moving to give Ana a quick hug before turning to look at Dean and Sam, "You're both welcome too, of course. It's been nice getting to know you and any family of Ana's is extended family of ours."
Both brother's gave Hank gentle smiles, "Sounds great. Suppose we should go see Heather too, though I'm not sure our visit there will go as smoothly." Dean spoke, muttering the last part slightly.
Ana shook her head, "We'll be back later then. Thanks for the visit." she told everyone with a smile, trying to subtly move everyone leaving out of the door.
Monica smiled and wrapped Ana in a tight hug. "I don't know how you did it, but thank you so much for bringing him home to us." she whispered in the younger woman's ear before placing a loving kiss on her cheek. When she let Ana go there were tears in her eyes.
"I love you all. We'll bring the beer later." Ana spoke with a smile, trying to not let her eyes water as well. "Now let's go before Heather finds out I've been here all morning and haven't stopped to see her yet." She added, leading the small group coming with her toward the door.
They had just stepped off of the stairs outside when Gwen and Kellen opened the door again, "Hey, are you two free tonight after our dinner plans?" Gwen called to Ana and Connor, causing them both to stop and turn to look at the siblings standing in the doorway.
They shared a quick look before Ana nodded, "I think so. What are you two thinking?" she knew the look in both of their eyes and it meant either really good or bad things were in store.
"Finals were last week so everyone's back from out of town. There's a party Seth Wilson's place tonight. I hadn't planned on going because of everything that had been going on with Kellen, but now that he's back home and in one piece we were thinking it'd be a good way for us to celebrate." Gwen explained with a sly smile.
Ana looked up at Connor, "What do you think? It'll be full of people I went to highschool with, most of which are fresh legal drinkers and it'll most likely be a little crazy."
"Red, I've worked in a bar for years in the largest city in Louisiana, I think I can handle a house party in Montana." He teased her with a small smile before turning to look at Gwen and Connor. "Count us in. We can figure everything out when we come back tonight."
"Sounds good." Kellen nodded, "Tell Heather we say hi." he added to Ana before pulling Gwen back into the house and shutting the door.
The witches turned to continue walking to Ana's car when Dean's voice made them both look toward the Impala which was parked slightly behind her car, "Did I hear that right? Are you going to a party tonight?"
Ana raised an eyebrow, "Are you really one to start lecturing me about underage drinking?" She assumed that he was going to respond negatively.
Dean shared a quick glance with his brother before he shook his head, "I wasn't going to lecture you. In fact, I think it's a good idea that you take a little time for yourself. With the way things have been going lately we have to take our time when we can."
Slightly shifting the direction she was walking, Ana turned herself so that she was headed toward her father's car. When she reached him, she forced her arms underneath his and pulled herself against him in a hug. "I love you." she told him softly before letting him go, aware that he wasn't a huge fan of having 'chick flick moments' where everyone could see. "And while we're on the subject of taking some time for ourselves, Connor and I are going to stay here for a few days. I think it'd be a good idea to spend some time with Heather and everyone in there." she gestured to the house. "The moment Gabe and Cas have information on Jade, we'll come back, but until then I'd like to stay here."
Looking down at his daughter, Dean sighed, he didn't want her staying here without him, but at the same time he didn't want to spend much more time in the city. Though the time he had spent there while he was younger had created the young lady looking up at him, it was still a sore spot that Stephanie went through her pregnancy and died alone because he left her, which left Ana to grow up without him. "Sounds like a good plan and as long as you check in every day, we'll have no problems. Sam and I will stay for the night and then we're going to head back to the bunker tomorrow."
Ana smiled up at him, "I think I can handle a phone call or two a day to assure you I'm alive."
"Good." Dean nodded, sucking in a deep breath as he opened his car door. "Alright, let's go deal with the she-devil." He gave a forced shiver and slid into the car. Ana shook her head and rolled her eyes, her father could be such a drama queen.
Boom! Another chapter :) I'm trying to get these slower ones out as fast as I can so that we can hurry on to more fun stuff. What do you guys think about Ana and Connor taking a break from the crazy to act like normal people their age? There should be some funny moments in the next chapter so be looking forward to that and I'm hoping to have that one up by Tuesday at the latest. Thanks for reading guys :)
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