Why Here?

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Summary: Kittatinny Ridge has been quiet for almost 130 years, after a devastating murder of over 14 travelers but a crazy innkeeper. But he has come back, and this time it is deeper than just a rogue spirit. Can Sam and Dean figure out what is going on?

A/n: This was a very awkward chapter to write. Not gonna lie…

Set After: The Benders

Disclaimer: Supernatural belongs to… the WB… CW… whatever it goes by now… but I am putting my own spin on the ghost story.

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"What?"

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The little girl held on to Dean for dear life as Sam drove down the road. Rain continued to pound on the roof of the Impala. The only thing on Sam's mind at the moment was trying to figure out what was going on.

And the only way he'd find out what was going on was to get to the police station. Because even though Dean was being silent, Sam figured that his older brother knew exactly what he knew. Absolutely nothing.

His eyes glanced over at Dean and the girl. There was something weird about this entire situation. Why would there be a little girl in the middle of the road, in the rain? And why would she latch herself onto Dean like she was?

Sam shook his head and turned his attention back to his task at hand. Finding the police station. There had to be one nearby. Normally they wouldn't go to the police, but this was different. They didn't know anything about this girl, and with all the weird disappearances, they couldn't be too sure.

Sam heard his brother sigh. Out of the corner of his eye, Sam saw Dean whispering something in the girl's ear, but he didn't catch what Dean actually said. The little girl just shook her head vigorously.

"Can you tell me your name?" Dean asked, finally breaking the silence.

The little girl didn't answer. "Come on…" Dean said after a few moments of silence. "We can't help you if we don't know what your name is…"

There still wasn't an answer from the girl as her grip on Dean tightened. Sam could tell just by the look on his brother's face that he wasn't thrilled.

He had to force back a chuckle as he spotted a building. Sam squinted to see the writing.

Kittany Ridge Police Department

Finally. Sam slowed down slightly and pulled in. "We're here," he said quietly. He turned the car off and looked over at Dean and the little girl. The two of them were still drenched to the bone.

"Well… here goes nothing…" Dean said, slowly opening the door and making sure to support the little girl as he got out so she wouldn't fall.

The three of them walked almost nonchalantly into the police department.

An elderly man was the first one to rush up to them. "Sophie?" he asked, a tone of almost disbelief in his voice. Sam just looked at the man. He looked like your everyday elderly guy. White hair, glasses, but there was a look of shock… surprise even, in his eyes.

"Sophie?" Dean asked.

The little girl turned to look at the man. "Pop-pop…" she said, her voice shaking slightly.

Obviously this girl had been missing. That would be why she was in the middle of the road in the rain.

Dean kneeled down to the ground to put the girl down, but she still refused to let go. "Sophia…" the man said again. "We were so worried…"

Sam could tell. He didn't exactly know what was going on, but he was beginning to get an idea.

Dean tried to force the girl off him, but her grip just got tighter. "Come on Sophie," Dean said. The girl still wouldn't move. He looked at the older man and shrugged to the best of his ability.

This was when Sam decided it was his time to interject. He looked at the old man. "Can I talk to you for a minute?"

The man turned to look at Sam, and then back at Sophia. He nodded and followed Sam a bit away from Dean and Sophie.

"Do you think you could tell me what's going on?" Sam asked slowly.

The man looked at him for a long time, not responding at all. "About a week ago… my daughter and her husband were taking Sophie up to Hawk Mountain, she had left her backpack there… and," his voice left him for a few moments. "That was the last we heard from any of them. Jake… their son, he went up to try and find them. But he wont… he refuses to talk to anyone."

Sam just listened to the man's story. That answered a lot. They were the last family to disappear. Sam remembered looking it up on the internet.

Before he got a chance to talk, the older man asked one question, but it was a big one. "How did you find her? We've been looking for all of them for the past week…"

Sam sighed. "We were driving, and she was just standing in the middle of the road."

Before the conversation had a chance to go any further, Sophia ran over, obviously having finally decided to let go of Dean, and tugged on her grandfather's shirt.

The man smiled and lifted the little girl up. Not as easily as Dean had, but the little girl latched onto her grandfather like she had been latching onto Dean before.

Dean walked over and whispered something in Sam's ear. "Get anything?" He just nodded.

The old man looked at the two of them. "I don't know how to thank you two…" he said.

"It was no problem, sir…" Dean said, that Dean Winchester smile flashing on his face. The two of them looked happy, relieved.

"Now we just have to hope that Jake comes too soon… maybe then we can find my daughter…"

Dean looked over at Sam, then back at the man. "Jake?" Dean asked.

The man sighed. "Sophie's older brother. They found him in the woods near the Schambacher House, up near the top of the mountain… doctors seem to think he's gone crazy… he won't stop repeating the same thing…"

He said it quietly enough that the little girl would barely make out what they had said, and Sam picked up on that right away. "Well hopefully everything works out for you…" Sam said slowly. "My brother and I need to go."

The man just looked at them. "Thank you again…" he said. Sophie wriggled in his grip. The two had barely heard the girl speak, and that was just a bit odd.

"No problem…" Sam said, pulling Dean out of the police office, but not into the rain. Not yet.

Dean looked at Sam as Sam said, "You know what we gotta do now, right?"

"Burn that house down?" Dean asked.

Sam didn't chuckle. "No. We have to go visit that kid…"

Dean shook his head. "You heard what the man said. He's just been saying the same thing over and over again. He's not gonna be any help. We'll check the house out first."

Without another word, Dean walked out into the rain and got in the driver's side.

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A/n: So waddy'all think? I'm thinking of changing the title of the story to "Rain" but I wanted to see what y'all thought. So tell me in a review!

Thanks to my amazing reviewers: EternalDragon101, M.Kena, ashlyns, Ghostwriter, sweetie420, rozzy07, and depressedone.

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