AN: This is it! It's all over! You guys have twisted my arm, there is a sequel in the works. You will, however, have to patient with me. Stay tuned.

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Almost a whole week passed and Isabel was showing a vast improvement. She could now walk everywhere by herself, albeit with a cane and the bruises on her face and body had started to fade. On Sunday Dean had left to look into a supposed poltergeist in a town a few hours away, insisting that Sam stay with Isabel and he would be back as soon as he took care of it. On the Monday night she announced to Sam that she was going crazy stuck in the house and she needed to get out. Sam took her to dinner and then they went to the movies. When they came back later that night, they found the Impala in the driveway. Dean had returned and Sam let out a huge relieved breath he didn't even know he'd been holding. He would have to get used to having to split their work like this from now on. It wasn't safe to take Isabel with them on their hunts, and it was even less safe to leave her home alone.

"Girls' night out?" Dean asked from the couch as Sam and Isabel walked in.

They glared at him from the doorway.

"How long were you working on that for, funnyman?" Isabel asked caustically.

Dean smiled. He'd missed his cousin's sarcasm "About half an hour" He held his arms out to her "Come here, give Dean some sugar"

She snorted but limped over to him all the same, taking a seat next to him and giving him a kiss on the cheek. She leaned against him and rested her head on his shoulder.

"How did it go?" Sam asked.

"Piece of cake" Dean said "You guys have fun tonight?"

"No" Isabel snapped and crossed her arms angrily "Everyone kept staring at me. With pity. Like I was some weak spineless doormat too scared to leave her abusive jerk boyfriend"

"Oh" Dean said then looked to Sam "And you?"

"Everyone kept staring at me like I was the abusive jerk boyfriend" Sam said taking his jacket off and slumping on the arm chair.

"Any more bad dreams?" Dean was watching Sam, who shook his head slightly.

"No" Isabel said "Three nights now"

She'd had another bad dream on Friday, not that she particularly remembered, but she did wake up with her head resting on a thick warm forearm. She had recoiled away from it in surprise and alarm until she recognised the arm belonging to Dean, sleeping unperturbed next to her. She could never remember what her dreams were about or what had happened over the night, but figured it must have been pretty intense if Dean and Sam felt that one of them should stay with her through the night. She didn't ask exactly what had happened and they never asked her the next day. She was thankful for that, because she wouldn't have really known what to say.

"Do you know what I think I need?" Isabel asked.

"What?" Sam asked slowly.

"I need to get away" She said raising her head from Dean's shoulder, her eyes not brimming with enthusiasm at the idea that had randomly popped into her head "Get out of town for a while, what do you think?"

"Alone?" Sam asked eyeing Dean warily.

"No. The three of us" She said smiling "Like a road trip"

"Isabel, my entire life is one huge road trip" Dean said.

"Yeah, but without me" She said looking at him pleadingly "Imagine the three of us on the road"

"You're scaring me"

She slapped him on the arm playfully "Come on, it'll be fun. I need to get out of here Dean" She looked up at Dean whose face revealed to her that he was not in the least convinced. She figured she'd have more luck with Sam "Sam, don't you think it'd be great?"

"I don't know if it's a good idea" Sam said.

She stuck her bottom lip out and put on her best puppy dog eyes. She'd used this technique to great effect wit her dad, and knew that it was certain to succeed "Please?"

Sam looked towards Dean, who could now tell his young brother had caved in and was now almost pleading with Isabel and seeking Dean's consent. Dean looked at his brother sternly, knowing that it now rested on his shoulders and was prepared to shoot both his brother and his cousin down when she turned the look on him.

"Damn" He muttered under his breath. There was no getting out of it now "We'll see what your doctors say"

"So that's a yes from you?" She asked, her eyes wide with excitement.

"Yes"

She smiled brightly and he couldn't fight the impulse to smile back. It was the first genuine smile he'd seen on her face all week, and it was by far the most beautiful thing he'd seen all day.

"Yay!" She said waving her arms in the air before wrapping them around her older cousin "Road trip!"