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?"
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