Chapter 5: The Journey

"Ugh…" I groaned when I woke up the next morning.

"Good morning sunshine." I heard Dean's voice say. I sat up and felt the blood rushing through my body. My head pounded.

"Ahh, is there coffee?" I asked meekly. Dean laughed at me.

"Sam just went to get some. And I want you to know that this problem is solved. The spirit is gone and we can all move on." Dean said.

"Oh… well that's good." I said. To be honest I wasn't very happy about it. My tone was pretty obvious.

"What? You don't like evil things that try to kill you being gone?" He said as he came to sit next to me.

"No it isn't that, it's just…" I started, but I didn't want to finish.

"Just what?" He asked.

"Well, just, yesterday was fun I guess. I wasn't alone on the road. I had people to talk to; ideas to share, and no one looked at me like I was insane." I told him.

"What, so you're saying you don't want to leave us?" He asked. I think I blushed a little.

"Yea, that is what I'm saying." He smiled some.

"Well I can see why you wouldn't want to leave me, I mean come on I am only the best looking guy you will ever meet, but why you want to be around my brother is something I don't think I will ever figure out." Dean joked. I laughed and hit him with a pillow.

"Shut up Winchester." I said laughing.

"Shut up? Oh no you did not just say that to me." He replied.

"Oh yea? What are you going to do about it mister?" I asked. Then he got a mischievous look on his face and had no idea what I got myself into. Then in and instant I was pinned underneath him and being tickled.

I don't think I have ever laughed this hard in my life.

"Ok, ok" I said through laughing. "I take it back!"

He had my arms pinned over my head. "You serious?" He said grinning. I stared into his green eyes and lost myself there.

"Yes, I'm serious." I whispered as I caught my breath.

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(Dean's POV)

The tickling thing was an instant reaction that I definitely enjoyed. I think she did to. But now I was on top of her, watching he breath heavily, and I was holding her arms above her head.

"Yes I'm serious." She whispered breathlessly.

Oh god, I could only think of a million other things to do in this position. I didn't move, I just looked into her eyes for a minute, then I could take it anymore. I leaned down and I kissed her. It was even better then I imagined. I let go of her wrists and grabbed her waist. Her hands moved up and down my back.

'Sam please do not walk through that door anytime soon.' I thought as I deepened the kiss.

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(Annie's POV)

Oh my God, he kissed me. And I did not want this to end. When he let go of my wrists, he moved his hands to my waist and started to gently trace them up my sides. This gave me shivers.

I have no clue how far this could have gone, because not to long after this session of intimacy began, Sam walked through the door.

"Ok I have coffee and bagels lets eat and hit the…woah.." He said when he said us. We quickly pulled apart.

"See Dean, I knew you thought she was hot, but I didn't know that you would move this fast." Sam said laughing.

"Shut up Sam!" Dean said. Obviously not mad, but a little irritated.

"Umm, I'm just going to take that coffee now." I said as I went to grab it from Sam.

"No Bagel?" Sam asked.

"No time, I still need to shower and pack my stuff. But thanks for the coffee. Oh and thanks for staying with me last night Sam." I said before tip toeing up and kissing him lightly on the cheek. It didn't mean anything, it's just what I did to thank people sometimes.

But it definitely did not make Dean happy. I looked over and saw Sam sticking his tongue out at him and Dean almost pouting.

"Once again, shut up Sam." He said and threw a pillow at him. I laughed and downed the coffee.

"Ok shower time, umm I will see you guys in a couple minutes k?" I said as I grabbed a towel and headed to the bathroom. Sam left but Dean followed me to the door.

"You know, if you really don't want to be lonely, I can't help unless I'm with you all the time, you know even in places like… oh say the shower. I mean and also lets say some other evil spirit decides to gang up on you while you are in there, and I'm not there to help?" He said. I laughed so hard.

"Well you are very sweet, but this is something I think I can handle." I said before closing the door in his face.

Once I was out of the shower, dressed and packed, the three of us had a much needed conversation.

"So are we hunting together now? As a group?" Sam asked.

"I'm game if you guys are." I said honestly.

"I say we do it, I mean the more people we have the more ways we can team up on these things and get them out of the way." Dean said.

"K, so we travel together now. So where are we going?" Sam asked.

"Well we are almost out of money." Dean told him. "And these fake credit cards aren't going to last us much longer, we need a plan.

"Do we need two cars?" I asked.

"No, not really." Sam said.

"I can sell mine, it's only about two years old, I should be able to get a good deal on it. And I have real credit cards and my own cash." I said.

"K, so that problems solved." Dean said.

"I think we should head to Florida, there's been some weird stuff happening in Tampa, plus it might be good to actually go somewhere a little bit fun." I said.

"I totally agree." Dean said.

"All right, let's go to Florida." Sam said.

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My car was sold that day. Some guy wanted it for his daughters sixteenth birthday. I bought the car brand new for 25,000. And I sold it for 14,000. This town maybe small, but when people have money here, they have money.

So we headed to Florida in the Impala, I let Sam ride up front and I crawled in the back and fell asleep listening to the low volume of hard rock, and thinking about how glad I was to finally have some body to talk to.