Title: Do you believe
Rating: PG-13 (it could eventually changed)
Show: A crossover between One Tree Hill and Supernatural
Pairings Mainly Dean Winchester and Peyton Sawyer, on the sideway Lucas Scott/Brooke Davis, Nathan Scott/Haley James
Summary: Dean and Sam are following a trail their father, John, left for them to follow. This trail leads them to this little town in North Carolina called Tree Hill. There, there is a mystery for them to solve, bloody murders are happening and all of them have found no explanations. Dean and Sam are on the case. While solving the mystery, they meet Peyton, a girl that troubles Dean to no end. She affects him so much the he doesn't recognise himself when he's around her. Peyton feels attracted to him, but she isn't ready to get close to any other men, not after the heartbreak she suffered when Jake left. Will they be able to give their hearts away? Will Dean feel confident enough to tell her what he's all about? And most importantly, Will they believe?
When: somewhere after Supernatural's pilot and after One Tree Hill season 2, one month after it.
disclaimer: I don't own any of the character of both Supernatural and One Tree Hill
Note: A lot of errors might have slipped in, because english is not my first language, so my English is far from perfect. If anyone would like to correct me, fills up for the job, please tell me.
Chapter 2 - Watching From Afar
It was about nine in the morning when the Winchester brothers started driving around town to find the library or any place where they could find computers.
"Sam, I swear, next time you're waking me up that early in the morning, I'll kill you! ...and I swear, I mean it!" said Dean threatening his brother.
"You love me to much for it and you need me..."
"Watch it, Sammy... I've worked on my own before you tag along and I was doing just fine. You're not that important to me!"
"Yeah right...keep telling that to yourself!"
"What an ego you have Sammy boy! Now, I'm wondering if all these times where you said I was full of myself you weren't, in fact, talking about yourself!"
"Believe me, your ego problems are far worse than mine!"
"Yeah, yeah..."
"...And you know it was really time for you to wake up before you wet the sheets of your bed..."
"Whatever!"
"Man...You kept moaning the name of that girl!"
"You're stupid! I wasn't even dreaming about her or about any girl for that matter." said Dean to his brother, half lying. The truth is he had dreamed about Peyton, but hadn't made that kind of dreams. It was probably the first time he was dreaming about a girl he was interested in and wasn't having a wet dream.
They both stopped talking when they seemed to get in what they supposed was the centre of the town, where all the business was probably taking place and where they should find the library... Sam was looking out his window making sure that if his brother wasn't looking that way he would see it... Dean on his side, was keeping his eyes on the road and once in a while he would give side glances to his left. Just when he spotted a coffee shop, Sam called out for him.
"Look Dean, there's a kind of Java cafe, here. Usually those places have working computers."
Dean didn't answered, but he still pulled his car in front of the place. He stopped the car and got out... Once he was out, he started crossing the street.
"Where are you going Dean? It's this side of the street!" shout Sam at Dean.
"I know, but I want coffee to wake me up!"
"It's a Java cafe. They have coffee, Dean!"
"Yeah well, I want some time on my own. No offence, but you're kinda annoying at times and a couple of minutes on our own we'll do us good. Plus I have a feeling, that this other place has better coffee. Go ahead, start to make the searches and I'll join you in a few."
Dean crossed the rest of the street, not letting Sam add anything. He looked at the sign of the coffee shop and read Karen's cafe. He put his hand on the handle of the door and pushed it...
Sam shook his head when he saw his brother turning his back to him. Dean would always be Dean! ...but he had to admit he was kinda glad he was on his own: He loved his brother, but spending too much time with him was like not spending any with him at all. Sometimes, it was really frustrating.
He walked in the Java cafe and made his way toward a counter where a clerk was.
"Can I help you?"
"I'd like to have some computer time."
"It's 10 bucks for 20 minutes."
"How much for an hour?"
"We don't do hour, it's only period of twenty minutes. You can buy another 20 minutes when you're done..."
"OK."
Sam handed the ten dollars. Dean's going to kill me when he'll know how much I paid only to use a computer thought the youngest Winchester.
Karen was at the counter looking over some of her counts, when she heard the bell of the door ting and saw a young man coming in. She started to watch his every moves. The boy was walking with assurance, looking at all of his surroundings; she saw his eyes stopped at a table in the far corner. She followed his look and saw that it was where her son and his friend Peyton were...
Practically as soon as Dean put the foot in the little coffee shop he saw her, Peyton, the girl from the bar. He hadn't really expected to find her here, but he wasn't complaining one bit... He fought the urge to approach her. He couldn't just walk up to her once again, not after she had turned her back to him the night before. Dean still had his pride and it wouldn't allowed him to crawl back to a girl he had just met and had turned him down. Instead of going to see her, he settled to walk up to the counter and buy a strong coffee.
"What can I serve you?" asked Karen to the older Winchester boy.
"The strongest coffee you have." requested Dean.
"To take here or to take out?"
"I'll take it here..."
As he said this, Karen wondered if the reason why he was staying here wasn't for Peyton. She took a mug and poured the black liquid in it.
"Milk? Sugar?" she asked to the young man. Karen cursed herself when she realised the look he gave her. "Oh right, strong coffee! It doesn't need milk or anything else... I'm sorry, I guess I wasn't fully there."
"That's ok. It happens to the best of us."
"Yeah it does..."
She handed him his mug, which he took gratefully. He barely took the time to mutter a thank you before taking a sip.
"Had a bad morning?"
"Yeah...or more like a too early morning to my own tastes."
"Well it's not that early, it's about 9:15."
"I know, but let's just say I'm not an early morning person. I love to sleep in..."
"I understand...my son is usually this way...surprisingly he woke up soon this morning."
Dean felt his cell phone vibrated against his waist. He took it and looked at the caller id and it said: Sammy.
"Shove it lil'bro." muttered Dean.
"What did you say?" asked Karen almost offended, thinking he had said the first two words to her.
"Oh no, don't take it wrong. It wasn't addressed to you."
"Then to who?"
"My brother, I'm out of his sight for two minutes and he already calls me and he knows where I am, he's worst than a mom at times."
"I take it you're not his biggest fan."
"That's not it. I mean his my brother and all, I care for him, but sometimes he's acting like he needs to watch over me in case I'll put myself in some mess...he's over doing it, that's all." said Dean, before taking another sip of his coffee.
"I see." said Karen before returning to her counts.
Dean drank a little bit more of his coffee, before succumbing to his curiosity. He slightly turned his head in the direction where Peyton was with that guy from the night before. She was more beautiful in the daylight and her smile, well, her smile was the prettiest he had ever seen. Dean couldn't understand for the life of him how he was so attract by this girl. He had never once in his life been so intrigued by a woman like this before. He turned back to his cup of coffee not wanting her to see he was looking at her.
"Scuse me..." he said to a busy Karen.
"Yeah..." answered Karen raising her nose from her papers...
"Would you happen to know these people at that table over there?" he asked pointing to the table in question.
"You mean the blond girl you were looking at when you came in?" asked Karen with a knowing smile.
Dean shoot his eyes on her immediately, almost saying "you saw me?"
"It was kinda obvious" stated Karen to her defence. "The boy, Lucas, is my son and the girl is Peyton, a friend of his. Why do you ask?"
"Just because..." said Dean vaguely before asking the question he really wanted to know: "Are they dating?"
"No, they're just friends...there's too much history between them, for them to go down that road again..."
"So they used to date?"
"Not exactly... Why do you seem so interest in them?"
"I'm not and I was just wondering."
"Or...you're really interested in her."
Was it that obvious? thought Dean to himself. Of course it was, he hadn't stopped shooting glances her way and asking questions, since he was in.
"No, but I will admit that I find her intriguing" said Dean to cover up the truth. He could see by Karen's look that she was doubting his explanation, so he decided to add: "... and before you say what's on your mind, I swear there's nothing else to it..."
"I wasn't going to say anything else."
"Perfect!" he said giving her a smile. "So...who's Karen? The owner of this place, I suppose." Said Dean to keep her off of the Peyton subject, he didn't wanted a stranger to analyse his behaviour and his feelings.
"She is and you would be sitting right in front of her..."
"Oh..." said Dean, obviously feeling dumb. "Well, you make great coffee, Karen!" he added, trying to cover up his embarrassment.
"Thanks."
Meanwhile, Peyton and Lucas were in deep conversation.
"Have you received any news from Brooke?" asked Lucas to the blond girl.
"No, Lucas, not since you last asked me yesterday night...you know she doesn't call every hour of a day."
"I know, I just..."
"You can't wait for her to get back and settle things between the two of you, I know and I understand your impatience...but Lucas you got to understand that Brooke is confused about her feelings for you and your feelings for her." Explained Peyton to her friend, not seeing that someone at the counter was looking her way every once in a while.
"She shouldn't doubt my feelings..."
"Can you honestly blame her? With what happened between the three of us sooner this year and the box she found, no wonder she doubts your sincerity when you tell her you love her."
"I know...but you believe me when I say I'm head over heels for her, right?" ask Lucas, seriously wondering if he had Peyton's trust.
"Of course. Do I have to remind you that I'm the one who has to endure you talking about her everyday?"
"I guess not...I would love if there was a way for me to show her that this time she really has all of my heart."
"If she could hear you, like I do whenever you talk about her she would make up her mind in a heart beat...until this happen for real, stop thinking about it even if its hard to do, cause right now there's only one person who can decide if she's ready to give you her heart again and it's Brooke and you can't force her to make that decision. You're gonna have to wait for her, as painful as it is...and thinking about it every second of the day will only make it more painful, take my word on it." She told Lucas, hoping Brooke would make her decision soon enough, cause I much as she loved both of them, this whole situation was starting to fall on her nerves. She was a little tired of hearing both of them talking about one another.
"You're thinking about Jake, aren't you?"
"That and..."
"Your mom."
"Yeah...but like I told you its more painful to only think about that, it doesn't solve anything."
"You're right...For the moment I got to keep my mind off of it. So, tell me how are Nathan and Haley, you must certainly know?"
"You didn't talk to Haley! I mean, I understand you and Nathan aren't on the best of terms, but it has never brought you and Haley apart in the past." said Peyton, quite shocked.
"Well, it's complicated, I talk to her often, but we don't talk about it. I don't know, I think, she thinks that because me and Nathan aren't on speaking terms, I don't wanna hear anything about him, when in reality it's the contrary. Nathan doesn't want to have anything to do with me anymore, I, on the other hand still want to..." told Lucas to Peyton, a feeling of sadness washing over him once again. He couldn't believe he was back to square one with his brother.
"That's weird. I think you should tell her you're concern about her and everything else, just like you just did, but in a more elaborated way..."
"Yeah well, things are sort of tense when it comes to important matters..."
"One more reason to talk with her. You two need a serious conversation..."
"You're probably right, but you still haven't told me where they're at in their relationship..."
"Still working things out, but its kinda like you and Haley: when it comes to important things they don't seem to be able to talk things out, but you know, if you'd see them on the streets you would think everything is alright when its not the entire truth."
"It's sad to see how all of our lives have turned out…." Said Lucas as he lowered his eyes to the table.
"It is, but…" Peyton interrupted what she was going to say when the ringing of a cell phone was heard. She turned around to see who had this cell phone ring that was more than getting on her nerves. She was shocked to see who it was.
"Looks like I was right yesterday night." said Lucas over the table with a winning voice.
Peyton shot him a death glance and direct her eyes back to Dean.
Dean cursed when he started hearing his cellphone ringing. He was sure he had put it on vibrated mode and that annoyed him, but it wasn't the only thing, he was convince it was his brother once again and that was the most frustrating of the two. When he checked the caller Id he realised it wasn't his brother name's that was written on, but Gavin Storm, one of the many alias is father was using. Dean couldn't believe what he saw on the screen…since this whole thing had started, never had his dad called him. Yeah, he knew his father wasn't dead, which Sam had a hard time believing, but Dean knew that all the clues his dad was leaving for them town after town only meant he was still in life. Seeing that made Dean wonder if it was really him, they hadn't used that alias in years. He excused himself to Karen, rose up from his seat and got a little away from the counter and he answered the phone.
"Dad?" tried Dean, not really sure if it would be him or not.
"Hello Dean…" said John voice, in a somewhat annoyed tone.
Dean sight in relief when he realised it was really him. Dean had so many questions to ask to his father that he didn't know where to begin. "Where are you?" was all he managed to ask.
"Not far… I can even see you're alone and your brother is not with you…"
How did he guessed? Thought Dean. He has no way to know I brought Sammy along with me…
"Just from your look, I can see what you're thinking, son. How did I guessed, huh? Easy, I have my ways… Now where's your brother?" asked an impatient John Winchester.
That means he is here, in the café, thought Dean when his father told him he could see his look. Dean eyes wandered all around the coffee house, but he couldn't see anyone that looked like his father.
"Not far either…" answered Dean to mimic what his father had said earlier… "Where are you dad? If you can see me that clearly, that means you're in the house, so where?"
"Look deeper than the appearances Dean, haven't I taught you that already?"
He was dressed up in someone else, it could only be that. Dean scanned the crowd, looked at everyone and saw someone in the corner close to the window… "Oh, please dad, tell me you're not disguise as that old woman close to the window!"
"I'm not. Look beside her."
That's when he spotted him…. He wasn't all that dressed up, in had a beard that he didn't have before and it kind of looked fake, it was all grey and Dean knew his father's hair weren't all grey , yet, and he had add a haunting cap to the costume.
"Great disguise, dad!" said Dean with sarcasm.
"OK, Dean, cut the game and tell me where Sam is…." Said John, getting impatient…
"Geez, Dad, ever heard of Prozac!"
"Dean, cut it out!"
"Ok, ok. Sam is in the java café on the other side of the street, happy?"
"Get back to him now! I'll join you in a few…"
"I was actually enjoying my time off…"
"Dean that's an order, it's important. Quit charming the lady, keep your eyes off that blonde and get back to your brother!"
His dad had been watching all along….Dean cursed. "Fine, I'm going back to him." Dean hung up and didn't bothered saying good bye, because he knew his father wouldn't bother replying
He put his cell phone back in his jacket pocket and walked back to the counter.
"Well Karen, it was nice meeting you and talking to you, but business is calling. How much do I owe you?"
"It was nice meeting you to… it's going to be 2.25$"
Dean took out his wallet and gave her the money.
"Thanks, the coffee was really good." Said Dean.
"Your welcome, I hope you'll enjoy your stay in Tree Hill as I suppose you're here for business."
"I will." He said with a smile. I definitely will, thought Dean, if I can have some one on one time with that Peyton girl… He left his place and walked out of the café.
Peyton watched him walk out from afar. She saw him crossed the street and entered in the Java café. A sudden urge came up to her, she wanted to follow him, see him and talk to him. What was going on with her? Why was she so attracted, so intrigued by that guy, when she had met him the night before? She couldn't find an answer for the life of her.
"Peyton, you're really into him, just look at you!"
She drifted back her eyes to Lucas.
"I'm not!"
"Whatever you say!"
"I know what I feel, Luke and I'm not into him. Anyway, I gotta go…I have a strip due and I have to work on it…"
"If you say so…" said Lucas, doubting Peyton's words.
"I say so…" she said as she rose up from her sit.
"I'll see you sometime tonight, I guess…"
"Maybe, it depends on how advance I am on the strip."
"Good."
She waved him goodbye and walked up to the exit. As she was going to open the door, she bumped into a man.
"Sorry sir!" she said as she indicted him to go before her and he did, he seemed impatient to leave. Once he was out, she left to and crossed the street to enter in the Java café, just like Dean had done a few minutes back and just like that impatient man. What she didn't know was that someone was watching her and following her.
To be continued…
I hope you enjoyed the chapter, feel free to comment because constructive criticism is appreciated and I'd really love to know what you guys think of this story so far….
note: someone brought my attention to little things, will the other characters of One Tree Hill be include, will you deal with Dan/Lucas, and other stuff such as those... First off, most characters of One Tree Hill will be in it, the main ones in fact. Of course, it's going to be centered on Peyton/Dean...but the other people around will be there too.Lucas and Brooke (and maybe Karen) will have their part to paly in it, along with Sam. I plan on letting Nathan and Haley as some kind of window characters, I don't really know if they'll be really in it or not, but the other character swill most likely mention them... I do not plan on talking about the Dan/Lucas relationship, because i think it would kinda be irrelevant to the story. I'm not going to use anything from S3, or if I do it'll be unintentionnaly. Peyton's mother thing, won't really have a lot of importance, she might talk about it, but Ellie won't really be there, or isn't supposed to be there in the plan of this story so far. Dan will have his role to play in the story, in fact, you'll discover a little about this in the third chapter, but more in the fourth and they,ll be more of him after that, maybe not in all of the chapters, but he'll be there...I plan on updating every two weeks or so, sometiems less, sometimes more. that's it for now, if you had questions I didn't answere or want to ask some please do tell me, by review or email.