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With only three days left before her first exam, Nicole spent nearly all of her days studying. After getting back to her apartment and telling her roommate, Allison, the same made up story about Sam and Dean being her family friends here to take her home after her exams and her mom being sick, Nicole got down to business. She did feel a little bad lying to Allison, who was also her best friend, but she couldn't very well tell her the truth, so instead she assured her that everything would be fine and she'd keep in contact while she was home.
Sam and Dean also set up a schedule so that one of them was with her at all times, while she was studying, sleeping, and everything in between. Nicole enjoyed it the most when it was Sam's turn to baby sit her because Sam was a good study partner. He told her that at one point in his life, he had wanted to go to law school and had graduated magna cumme laude from Stanford, so he knew the importance of these exams.
Nicole sensed that there was a story behind Sam's decision not to attend law school, but she didn't press him about it. When Sam was babysitting her, he would quiz her from her note cards and let her and Allison use him as a model so they could point out the bones and muscles of the body to each other. Nicole also thought that Allison might have a little crush on Sam, so she tried to leave them alone as much as possible.
When it was Dean's turn, Nicole had tried to talk him into being their study model for the night, but he had kindly told her that if she and Allison tried to poke and prod him all night, he would cut her hands off. Dean also kept making Nicole stop studying to practice self-defense and learn how to protect herself against demons (which were also apparently real) and other dark creatures.
She was pretty sure Allison thought that she and Dean were hooking up because every time he wanted to do self-defense, they had to go into her bedroom, away from Allison's prying eyes, but all in all, she was really enjoying her self-defense lessons. She had taken kick-boxing classes in the past so at least Nicole knew how to throw a punch and kick with either leg. Over the past few days Nicole had also noticed some perks of being a vampire, like needing less sleep, heightened senses, and quicker reactions, which came in handy when trying to fight Dean. He'd barely been able to land a hit on her, which really was starting to piss him off.
"How are you doing this?!" Dean exclaimed, throwing his hands in the air. "You are new at this. I should be beating the crap out of you."
"You want to beat the crap out of me?" Nicole cocked an eyebrow at him. "That's kinda kinky, Dean. I didn't know you were like that."
Dean tried to catch her off guard and threw a jab at her face, which she easily ducked under. "Maybe it's my super vampire powers," Nicole chuckled at the pure frustration on his face.
"Sweetheart, I have fought vampires and beat them to crap. You are a freak."
Nicole threw a quick combination at Dean: a high right hook, followed immediately by a low right hook to his ribs and then a knee to the groin.
"What the hell was that for?" Dean asked, bent over in pain.
"Don't call me sweetheart."
"Fine, Geez, go study your notecards. I do not want to play with you anymore." Dean waved her out of the room and began to set up the air mattress that he and Sam and taken turns sleeping on for the past three days.
The next morning, Nicole woke with the sun. She had never been a morning person in the past, but being a vampire and not needing much sleep, combined with her exam nerves had her up before the sun even rose. She was taking her first exam in 4 hours and she was so nervous. She'd had so much less time to study than the rest of her classmates and she had to take them with her professors looming over her the whole time.
Putting on some coffee, Nicole tried to find something to distract herself until Dean or Allison woke up. She had a rule of never studying the day of an exam. If she didn't know it by then, she wasn't going to learn it in time, and trying to cram the morning of would just stress her out more. Instead, Nicole put her ipod in set about preparing a huge breakfast for Dean, Allison, and Sam when he arrived.
Nicole was dancing across the kitchen while trying to flip the second omelet when Dean emerged from her bedroom. Nicole pulled one of her earbuds out of her ears, but continued to dance along to Tiesto.
"Morning Dean-o," she whispered, trying not to wake Allison up, "Did you know you are the worst vampire baby-sitter ever?"
"How do you figured that?" Dean asked, coming to sit on the counter top next to where she was working.
"Well, for starters, I've been up for like two and a half hours and could have easily snuck out and killed someone and come back to make you breakfast without you even knowing." Nicole slid a finished omelet on a plate and handed it to Dean with a fork.
"Thanks. So what's point number two?" He asked, moving to sit in a chair on the other side of the counter.
"Second," Nicole grinned, resting her elbows on the counter opposite him, "I figured out yesterday that I can kick your ass, so I could totally just incapacitate you and make a run for it."
Dean scowled at her. "You cannot kick my ass. And I have the advantage of a machete, sweetheart."
Nicole's face dropped. "You're still carrying around a machete? Have I not proven myself yet?"
Dean pointed his fork at her, "You may not be dangerous, but there are plenty of things out there that still are, so I will keep my machete, thank you very much."
Rolling her eyes, Nicole suppressed a smile at Dean admitting that she wasn't dangerous. "Coffee?"
"Yeah, thanks."
Nicole slid a mug in front of Dean, guessing that he was a black coffee kind of guy, before turning and grabbing one of the bottles of blood Sam had stolen from an animal hospital in town and she had hidden in the back of the fridge behind the milk carton so Allison couldn't find them.
Taking a sip she turned back to face Dean. "Oh and Dean?"
Dean mumbled an acknowledgment through a mouth full of eggs.
"If you ever call me sweetheart again, I will use that machete on you."
By the end of the week, Nicole began to suspect being a vampire did wonders for her memory. She flew through her exams with ease and by Friday afternoon, she was almost excited to take her practical. Sam and Dean were gathered in her living room on Friday afternoon, Dean pacing anxiously.
"What is your deal?" Nicole asked, her eyes following him back and forth across the room.
"I don't like staying in one place for so long." Dean answered, barely glancing at her.
"Well come Monday we can go wherever you like." Dean finally stopped pacing and stared at Nicole.
"Yeah? And how many people are going to die over the weekend because we are here babysitting you instead of out there ganking real monsters." He asked, his eyes blazing.
"I told you, I don't need babysitting! If you wanna go kill something, fine! Go!" Nicole spat back, standing up from her spot on the couch.
"Then who's going to stop you from feeding on a human and killing any chance you have of turning back, hm?" Dean questioned, cocking his head to the side.
"I can stop myself," Nicole ground out.
"If you want to bet your chance at humanity on your own self-control, be my guest," Dean said, gesturing grandly at her, "I guess you think you can hunt down that alpha by yourself too. Why don't Sammy and I just leave you to it then?"
Sam, who had been sitting quietly watching their exchange finally spoke up. "Uh, guys!" Nicole and Dean ignored him.
"Don't you dare, Dean!" Nicole exclaimed, blinking back tears. "You promised me you would help me change back."
"Guys!" Sam cut in again.
Dean sighed, shaking his head. "You're right, Nikki, you're right."
"I can't stay like this," she cried, a few tears leaking down her face. All of Dean's anger evaporated at the sight of Nicole's tears.
"Come here, sweetheart," he murmured, walking forward to take her in his arms. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."
"GUYS!" Sam shouted finally getting their attention. Dean and Nicole both looked at Sam, then following his outstretched hand, Allison's doorway, where Nicole was horrified to see Allison standing with her mouth agape.
"You're mom isn't really sick is she?" Allison whispered.
"Shit…"
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