Chapter 17

"No you dont sweetheart...ABBIE!" Dean gently tapped the cheek he had only moments before slapped hard. Her eyes opened.
"Whats going on?" Abbie asked, looking round.
"Er, thats kinda what we wanna know Sis" said Sam.
She slowly started to take in what had just occured back in the diner. Dean told Sam to get the damn car moving and away from there.
Suddenly, her hand flew to her right cheek, where there was a bright red mark. Dean was having a hard time looking at it.
It stung... with an accusing look at her eldest brother, she snapped "You slapped me?"
Small pause.
"Well I ...ah..." Dean felt awful.
"you SLAPPED me!" not a question this time. Tears were on the brink of rolling from from her big blue eyes, she looked so hurt. Dean felt like the biggest bastard ever, yet he acknowledged it had to be done.
"Abbie he had to honey" Sam said from the front.
"Sis you should have seen yourself back there. You were damn well out of control. It didnt even look like you! Plus, what makes me angry is the fact that is was done on purpose... that was no accident like it was in the motel with bitch breath" Dean shouted.

"He pissed me off! You dont even know what he did!" Abbie shouted back.
"I dont care Abbie! you CANNOT go around attacking people just cos they piss you off! If I did that, id have been locked up in the state pen a long time ago!" Dean didnt want to shout at his sister, it was the fact he was actually quite frightnened for her that was making him shout.
The tears had started to fall. Big fat plops of natures salt water made her eyelashes spike.
Looking at her, tears rolling, cheek marked from the vicious slap hed dealt her, Deans heart broke then melted. "Im scared Dean, whats gonna happen to me next?" she sobbed.
He pulled her hard into him, grabbing on and hugging tightly. For a guy who hated showing emotion and what he dubbed "chick flick moments" , it was instinctive.
"Hey... shhhhhhhhhh baby, well help you. Youve always got Sam and me ok? You just frightened us back there"

She sobbed her heart out. She admitted to herself she was totally petrified of what she was suddenly capable of. What shed become. She clung onto her brother.
He sat with his arms wrapped around her for some time, and she fell asleep. After gently disengaging himself, he awkwardly climbed into the front with Sam.
"Jesus Sam. This is freaking me out bro"
Sam looked across at him. "Tell me about it. She obviously cant control whatever power she has. Its raw at the moment. She needs some sort of training or whatever"
"Lets just hope Granny can shed some light on the matter." Dean said absently.

2 and a half hours later, they pulled into a small tidy driveway. It was the address Abbie left from aged 16. There were flowers in the garden. Sam cut the engine.
"Abbie? come on sweetheart, were here" Dean told her. Shed been awake the last 20 minutes. Coming back here depressed her.
They all climbed out. Sam hugged her briefly. "Cmon sis, things ll be ok"
Dean knocked on the green front door. Abbie wondered to herself why it didnt feel natural to just walk right in, after all, she had lived here for 14 years. yet it just didnt.
No response. Dean knocked again. This time, the door opened slowly. A craggy, weather beaten face appeared. Jesus, Gran had aged so much in 4 years.
"Yeah? What do you want?" asked Gran.
Both brothers pushed Abbie infront of them.
"Grandma? Its me. Abbie"

The door opened wider. Grandma looked astounded. "Well I never. and who are these 2?" she gesticulated to Dean and Sam.
No warm welcome indeed thought Sam. How cold can a Grandparent get?
"These..." said Abbie proudly "are my brothers. Dean" she said pointing to him, "and Sam"
"Maam" said Dean not smiling.
"How do you do?" said Sam. Gran raised her brows disbelievingly.
"You better come in then" she said ungraciously.

They all sat down in the front room.
"Well come to you 2 later" she said nodding in both boys direction.
She turned her clear blue eyes towards her granddaughter. Those eyes softened with love as she looked at the beauty Abbie had become. Shed always loved the bones of the girl, just didnt know how to show it.
"I always knew youd be back Abbie. And I think I know why. Where do you want to start?" ...