AN: Sorry for the delay in updating everyone, I will give you some extra chapters this week. I was away on vacation and had no access to internet. Also, I'm moving to England in 10 days and IM SO EXCITED. But there is so much to do so I'm also freaking out too. Enjoy!
Normally, Nicole would have never walked home alone from the part of town where her former workplace was, but she figured that since now she was a vampire, she didn't have much to worry about.
Stomping up the stairs to her apartment, she threw open her door to find Sam standing at her kitchen counter with a glass of water in his hand.
"Where's Allison?" Nicole asked immediately.
"Asleep already," he replied, nodding towards her bedroom door. "Everything okay?" He asked, taking in her appearance, "where's Dean?"
"Don't know, I left him at the bar," Nicole said as she kicked off her shoes, "After I punched him in the face, so don't be alarmed next time you see him."
Sam sighed and shook his head, "What did Dean do?"
Nicole leveled Sam with a hard stare, her dark hair falling over her shoulders in long waves, "Sam, your brother has some fucking issues." And with that, Nicole disappeared into her room, slamming the door behind her.
Half an hour later, when Nicole was showered and curled up under the covers of her bed, she heard her apartment door open and who she assumed was Dean stumble in. Judging by the amount of noise he was making, he clearly had spent the last half hour drinking more.
"Dean!" Sam called out to his brother and Nicole could hear them perfectly through the wall thanks to her new and improved hearing.
"Oh hey, Sammy, you're still awake!"
Nicole could hear Sam stand from his place on her couch.
"Nice shiner."
"What? Oh yeah. Nicole's got a mean right hook."
"Dean… What did you do to her?"
"More like what didn't I do, eh?" Dean made a rude noise and Nicole rolled her eyes on the other side of the wall.
"Dude, are you telling me that Nicole came on to you and you shut her down? Are you crazy?"
"I didn't see you going after her, Sammy. What's with the judgement?"
Nicole heard Sam sigh and imagined him shaking his head at his brother. "Dean… hott, smartass women are you're type, not mine."
"Well, technically she isn't even a woman so doesn't that actually make her your type?"
Nicole sucked in a deep breath and struggled to keep her anger from making her walk back out to the living room and punching Dean in his other eye. It seemed that Sam was thinking along a similar track because a second later he said: "Watch it, Dean, or I might just give you a second black eye."
"What? It's true!" Dean responded, "Demons, werewolves, why not add a vampire to your list Sammy?"
"You're an asshole. I saw you all over her on the dance floor and now you want to act like she's some kind of freak? You need to get over yourself, Dean."
Deciding that she had heard enough and just wanted the two idiots on the other side of the wall to let her get some sleep, Nicole banged on her bedroom wall and shouted, "shut up! I can hear you!"
Come Monday morning, Nicole had packed what she thought she would need for this insane road trip, boxed up the rest of her stuff, and made arrangements for Allison to watch her cat. She wasn't speaking to Dean if she could help it, but she had taken to reminding him that she was a vampire every chance she got. She'd figured out how to control retracting her fangs, and if she caught Dean staring at her for too long, which he did quite often, she would bear them at him just to spite him. The morning of their practical, Sam made them all what he called the breakfast of champions, and wished them both, but mostly Allison, good luck.
Nicole had been nervous walking into the practical, not knowing how the slight smell of blood and formaldehyde would affect her, and Dean hovering in the corner with a machete tucked into his jacket didn't help either, but with some supportive words from Sam, Nicole flew through the practical and was free to get on the road. Over the past few days, Nicole had made up a story to explain her long absence to her family. She told her mom that she had gotten an internship with Doctors Without Borders working within the U.S. and would be traveling to volunteer at medical clinics in remote areas of the country all summer. Her mom had been thrilled for her, only slightly worried at the fact that this meant that Nicole wasn't going to be bringing in any money all summer to go towards her student loans, but happy none the less and with a promise to keep in touch, Nicole and the brothers hit the road.
"Here's the deal," Dean began explaining their plan for this search to them. "Until Castiel can come through with some more solid leads, were going to treat this like any other case. A vampire this old is going have perfected the art of people snatching without attracting attention. We won't be looking for bodies in the streets, but people that inexplicably go missing. He probably also has a permanent residence and people or other vampires that work for him so someone somewhere must have noticed him. So we want to look at rumors and myths matching the alpha that overlap with reports of people going missing with no bodies recovered."
Nicole, who was lying across the back seat, using her duffle back as a pillow, let out a sigh. "Sounds like looking for a needle in a haystack full of needles. Any regular old human can make people disappear without a trace, and people can run away. This doesn't sound like a very exact science."
"It isn't." Dean snapped, glaring at Nicole in his rearview mirror, "but it's all we've got right now so we're going with it."
In the passenger seat, Sam sent a text to Allison and looked at his brother out of the corner of his eye, wondering how long he and Nicole would last before they killed one another.
They were heading to Piedmont, South Dakota following up a lead. Over the past few weeks, 3 eerily similar looking blondes had gone missing while walking home at night. They'd been in the car for three days, staying in motels at night and they'd fallen into a rhythm. Nicole always sat in the back seat, wearing a hoodie and sunglasses to protect herself from the sun, with the brothers alternating driving. Much to Nicole's displeasure, Dean refused to let her behind the wheel of "his baby", which Nicole teased him relentlessly about.
"So let me get this straight?" She mused from the back seat, leaning over Dean's shoulder, "Vampires are a no-no, but inanimate objects are okay in your book of sexual preference? You make no sense."
Dean pointedly ignored her so she let her fangs drop and playfully nipped him on the shoulder. Dean jerked the wheel so hard the impala swerved across the road.
"What the fuck, Nicole? Are you insane" Dean huffed, nearly turning around in his seat to face her. Nicole just laughed and slid across the back seat out of his reach.
"Sam doesn't mind dark creatures of the night? Do you Sam?" Nicole asked, resting her head on his shoulder.
Shooting his brother a look out of the corner of his eye, Sam shook his head. "You aren't a dark creature of the night, Nicole."
"I think that fact might be up for debate in this car, right Dean?"
"Can you both just shut up?" Dean glared at the pair and turned the radio up as loud as it would go.
Thankfully, Nicole had packed her noise cancelling headphones to help with the new sensitive them on she slid back down in the back seat and zoned out until they hit South Dakota.
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