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Chapter 6: The Fact

(Dean's POV)

We had been driving for a couple hours and I was the only one awake. Sam was still having all the nightmares and premonitions so he never got much sleep, and Annie, well she just crashed in the back. To be honest the quiet was nice. It gave me time to think, about dad, about mom, about the trips we had taken and the one we currently were taking, about Sam and his nightmares, about Meg and that whole screwed up deal.

And about Annie.

I tried to block it out, remembering the promise I made to myself not to love anyone. And I am not saying I loved Annie, I mean I barely knew her. But I knew that if I stayed around her for much longer and we kept acting like we were, it was a huge possibility that I might fall in love with her.

And I couldn't do that.

'No Dean,' I thought to myself. 'It is for your own good, and it's for her safety.'

After I thought that the image of what happened to my mother popped in my head, but instead Annie was in her place.

I took a deep breath and shook the image from my mind. After checking the road I quickly turned my head to look at her, sleeping there peacefully.

And even though I would never do this, and I would never admit it to anyone. I actually wanted to cry.

A few minutes later Sam woke up. Thank God, I was saved.

"Hey there, get a nice nap?" I asked to my younger brother.

"Yea, for once I didn't have one of those dreams." He told me. I nodded.

"Well that's good, maybe now you can be on your feet when we hunt this thing." I joked with him. He laughed some, then I saw him look back at Annie.

"Hey Dean, Can I talk to you about Annie?" he said quietly.

"Umm, ok what is there to talk about?" I asked.

"Well a lot of things, about how you feel about her, and there's something weird about her in general." Sam told me. Ok now he was ticking me off.

"Hey there's nothing weird about her! And what do you mean how I feel about her? She is just another girl who happens to be a hunter." I said, covering up everything.

"Yea which explains why you were making out with her, pretty intensely I might add back at the Inn? And why you got so angry when the spirit had hurt her? Or why you wanted her to come along so badly?" he said, his voice rising some.

"Shh, you will wake her up." I whispered, which probably didn't help my case any. "Ok a) I wanted her to come because she is good, she's smart and quick, we could use that. B) I got worried because when you see anyone laying on the ground with blood running from there head, you tend to get that way and c) She is a girl, a very gorgeous one at that, I had the opportunity to kiss her, and I did. Case closed." I said.

"So that kiss didn't mean anything?" Sam asked me. I swallowed hard, not wanting to lie, but I knew it was for the best.

"No, it meant nothing." I said quietly, before letting the once comfortable silence turn into uncomfortable.

I didn't ever want her to hear this conversation.

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(Annie's POV)

I woke up sometime in the middle of their argument, about me.

"So that kiss didn't mean anything?" Sam asked Dean. I kept my eyes closed and prayed that the answer was that it did.

"No, it meant nothing." Dean replied quietly.

Why I wanted to beat him until he died, or jump out of the car, or scream I didn't know. Because I mean I had only known him for a little over a day. And he was a guy, from what I could tell a major player at that. Why should I have expected anything different.

I guess because it meant something to me. A lot to me.

'You promised yourself' I told myself. 'You promised not to fall for anyone, this is just fates way of telling you that your first instinct was right.'

But still, I wanted him to hold me and take it all back.

And I never felt stupider for feel that way.

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A couple hours later we got to another small Inn. I refused to stay at one of their flea bag motels. Eww. So I offered to pay for it.

I went up to the clerk's desk.

"Hi, how may I help you?" He asked.

"I need two rooms please, one with two beds." I said.

"I'm sorry miss, but we only have one room left. It has two beds though." He told me.

'Crap.' I thought. And this was the only decent place we had seen for miles.

"Umm, ok hold that room for me while I go talk to my friends." I said. He nodded and I went to the car.

"Ok they have one room left with two beds. This is the nicest and most reasonable place we have seen for a while; do we take it or leave it?" I asked.

"I say take it." Sam said.

"Fine with me, as long as I don't have to share a bed with Sam I'm fine." He said.

"Yea same here." Sam told me.

I put on the fakest smile I could. "Well then looks like one of you is sleeping on the floor because I'm sure as hell not sharing." I said before walking off.

"Ok we will take it." I said to the clerk when I got back inside. I paid, got the key, and went to grab my stuff.

"Here, I'll help you." Dean said as he tried to get one of my bags. I pulled it away from him.

"No thanks, I can do it myself." I said coldly before walking away from him. He just stared at me as I walked off.

I really didn't like being this way. But I didn't feel like I had a choice.

We got to the room, got set up, and decided we were hungry.

"I'm going to go to this diner I saw down the road, you guys want to go?" Sam asked.

"Sure, I'll go." Dean said.

"No, I'm going to stay here, maybe go out and do some searching back in those woods we saw about a mile back. I think that's where they said most of this stuff has been happening. It sounds mostly like werewolves or some other creature, maybe even a shapeshifter. Only one or two killings, but just a lot of noise and strange disappearances." I said.

"Well I'm not letting you go back there alone, not even I am stupid enough to do that." Dean said. I laughed coldly.

"Well I guess I am, and since when did you care?" I mumbled to him before grabbing my stuff and heading to the door.

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(Dean's POV)

She was going by herself. To hunt for something like a werewolf. Was she insane? Sam and I both new better then that. And she didn't even know if it was a werewolf! It could be something even more dangerous.

"…And since when did you care?" She said.

'Oh no, she heard' was the first thought I had.

But she was going out to look for a creature, or a shapeshifter. She could get herself killed! I looked at Sam, suddenly I really didn't care what he thought. So I rushed out of the door.

"Annie wait!" I heard sigh and then she turned around.

"What is it Winchester?" She said, a little annoyed.

"Ok Sam and I have been hunting these things since we were like twelve, and we know not to do it alone. So if you think I am going to let you go out there alone you are seriously mistaken." I said, coming pretty close to her face, which actually took some effort considering how short she was. She laughed at me. And I mean just flat out laughed at me.

"I have been doing this on my own for about four years now. I didn't need a baby sitter then and I don't need one now." She said before turning to walk off again. This time I grabbed her arm and pulled her back.

"What the hell Dean!" She exclaimed.

"I am not going to lose you." I said, not really thinking of the words that came out of my mouth. I knew I was going to have some explaining to do for that one. She smirked and shrugged me off.

"That's funny because a couple hours ago, you told your brother that basically I was just another girl on your list of accomplishments." She said coldly. She was right, it had sounded that way.

"I didn't mean it." I said quietly.

"What are you? Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? Because I can only take one supernatural thing at a time, and if it happens to be you, then maybe I will just shoot you now and get it over with." She said before turning to walk off.

I knew better then to stop her. And I knew I deserved it. But that didn't change the fact that it hurt. After she was out of site I went back into the room.

"Change of plans Sam, get your stuff we are going out to the woods." I told him as I grabbed my bag.