Chapter Eighteen

It took a hour to get through all the pictures and she skillfully skipped the ones she'd taken of them sleeping in the middle of the night. After that they took turns showering while Autumn ran out to Mc Donald's to get breakfast. They ate quickly while Autumn put away the bed. Athena kept rattling off tourist things they could do, which seemed to be a foreign idea for Sam and Dean. Since the girls had grown up tied to a farm they'd never had vacations, so to make up for that they made sure to do something ridiculously tourist in every town they stopped in. A lot of times it was something their mother, who had grown up in town, did when she and her family went vacationing. The boys didn't remark verbally but the looks on their faces was enough to alert Autumn that her sister was making them look like fools. Autumn herself was still marveling that for the first time since she was a little kid she'd shared a bed with a guy, and all those horrible stories her parents, and foster parents had drilled in her head seemed to be myths.

"Dude." Autumn said looking at her sister who took the hint and backed down. "I was thinking more along the lines of digging around and finding out about the twins. There has to be a reason to get in that house tonight, and I'm doubting I can just go by and off to baby sit tonight." Dean and Sam seemed warmer to this idea, it was so radical for a hunter.

So about an hour later they found themselves in front of Kenny and Madeline's house. Athena and Sam walked up to the front door while Autumn and Dean drove off so they weren't seen. Athena rang the doorbell and not a minute later a lady with brown hair and green eyes opened the door.

"Hello, ma'am. My name is Athena, my friend, Sam and I bought some movie tickets for a show tonight, but my grandmother has fallen ill and is in the hospital. She had a heart attack and we don't expect her to live more than a week. We were curious if maybe you and a friend would like to take our place?" Athena made her eyes water so it looked as if she were about to cry.

"I'm terribly sorry about your grandmother, miss." The lady had sympathy in her voice. She believed Athena's act. "Mike, honey, come here!" she called.

"What's the matter Lily?" a bigger, muscular man came up stood beside his wife.

"This young lady and her friend have movie tickets, but her grandmother had a heart attack and they don't expect her to live much longer. They're here to see if we'd like to take their place."

"What movie is it?" The man asked grabbing a tissue box from his left. He handed it to Athena who took one and began dabbing at her eyes. Sam put his arm around Athena and moved his hand up and down on her back to comfort her.

"It's Black Rose. We waited for weeks to get the tickets, sold out everywhere." he said. "It would mean the world to Athena's grandma if we were there with her. They used to spend hours and hours together everyday when she was younger. From what I've heard, you couldn't separate the two. And now that she's dying I'm sure all she's waiting for is Athena to be sitting beside her holding her hand." Athena sniffed and wiped the water from her eyes with the tissue the man was polite enough to give her.

"I'm sorry," she said. "so can you go? I need to get going to the hospital before it's too late."

"We've… actually been trying to get tickets for the show. I've heard nothing but good things about it." Lily mentioned.

"We'd love to go. Do you have the tickets with you now?" Mike asked.

"Oh. Yes, we do." Sam pulled the tickets out of his pocket and handed them to the man. "Thanks again. I'm glad we found someone to go so our money didn't go to waste." Sam smiled at the two and turned and walked off with his arm still around Athena. She leaned into his arm as they walked off the young couples' driveway and stayed that way until they were out of sight. They walked down the street a little ways and turned onto the first road they seen. Dean's car wasn't too far down, they could see two people turned towards each other talking. Sam opened the car door for Athena who got in and sat down. He then walked over to the other side and got in.

"Well? How'd it go?" Dean asked.

"Pretty good, actually. Athena made herself cry." Sam answered.

"Did you use the 'granny's dying' story or 'aliens abducted my dog and I can't go' story?"

"Granny's dying."

"Aww, I was hoping you'd pick the alien one. It would have been WAY more fun."

"The movie starts at 9, that's usually when kids go to bed, right? And the baby sitter always watches TV when the kid is asleep, so we shouldn't have too hard of a time getting in." Athena interrupted the two's conversation.

"So now we just wait for the rest of the day?" Autumn asked.

"Yeah, for the most part. We could still do some research, but what fun is that?"

"Yeah… hey Sammy? How did you get those tickets if they're sold out everywhere?" Dean questioned.

"It's Sam. And I pulled a Dean, they're fakes. But it'll get them in to see the movie." he replied.

"Very nice. Can't picture you doing something like that, but very nice."