Chapter 2: The Bite

The cemetery.

What a cliché place to be for this mission. But the fire was started with extra wood, and I was standing next to it.

Gabi and I had figured out why this would probably work. Bat's couldn't see in light and couldn't stand it. Fire produced light. Then the whole vampire thing with wooden stakes going through their heart and such… hence the fire wood.

The only thing that wasn't positive was if my powers worked on them.

Dean, Sam and Gabi were together somewhere near. So I started to think about it.

I imagined the bats coming to me and then into the fire. Then I imagined vampires coming towards me and into the fire. But nothing happened. I closed my eyes and imagined it over and over again.

"Vampires." I whispered and held my hand out. Then, I heard a flock coming towards me. But they were coming from behind. I gasped and used my motion power to throw them into the fire one by one.

The strangest thing happened when they went into the flames. They flashed from being bats and then to human form, and back and forth until they turned into ash.

There must have been twenty of them and I felt exhausted. But they were gone.

"Done." I yelled. But that was a mistake.

There was one I hadn't gotten apparently. And it came charging for me.

"Oh no…" I whispered. I tried to use my power to throw it into the fire but I was to worn out and my powers weren't working.

"Help!" I screamed as a last resort. I felt it swoop around my head, so I closed my eyes and tried to throw it again. But it bit my hand.

"Ouch!" I yelped. It started heading for my neck, but then I heard a gunshot and it was pushed into the fire.

"You okay?" Dean yelled as they all ran over to me.

"Yeah, it just got my hand. Wait… I'm not going to turn into a vampire or anything am I?" I asked getting a little scared. Sam and Dean laughed.

"No, they can't kill if they want to make you one but they need more of your blood then this to do it." Sam reassured me. I sighed with relief.

"Come on, I think our work here is done." Dean said as he gently took my slightly wounded hand. We all agreed and went back to the hotel.

We started packing our stuff up so we could leave in the morning.

Apparently this bat hadn't gotten any of my blood and just skin because even though it was just a small cut, it was bleeding pretty bad.

"God was the thing trying to drain me…" I exasperated as I put a third bandage on it.

"Just put pressure on it." Gabi yelled from the bathroom. I pressed a cold rag hard against it.

After a while the bleeding stopped being so bad and I could actually keep a band aid on it for more then fifteen minutes.

"What time do we need to get up?" Gabi asked. I looked at Sam. He was the morning person.

"Probably about seven if we want to head out by eight. So if we go to bed now we should get about five hours of sleep." Sam told us. We all groaned but didn't hesitate.

Dean lay down and I started walking to the bathroom.

"I'm going to take a shower so that way only the two of you will have to in the morning." I said, referring to the boys. They both nodded and then immediately drifted into sleep. I laughed a little at them and went into the bathroom.

The shower felt so good. But they always did after these jobs. You could get pretty gross doing what we did, and it always felt good to be clean afterwards. I was probably in there for an hour before the water started to get cold. Hesitantly I got out, put on a pair of track pants and my favorite old, huge sweat shirt and cuddled up next to Dean. His arms went to my waist and pulled me closer to him and instantly, the Wisconsin cold nights were no more in my eyes.

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'This is the only way I can speak to you Annie…' I heard a voice say. When I opened my eyes I saw all white. Nothing else, it was blinding.

'Who are you?' I demanded. Then a light appeared and stopped in front of me. But as the light started to fade I saw a man. He looked vaguely familiar, almost like I had seen him in a dream. Then I saw his eyes. They were my eyes.

"Dad?" I whispered. He smiled.

"Yes Annie it is me. I am sorry I never got to speak to you before, but now that you have these powers I need to let you know something's before more evil comes after you." He told me. I could feel the tears in my eyes.

"I've never seen you before…" I said softly. He smiled and laid a hand on my shoulder.

"I know, and I wish we could talk about more then what I have to tell you. But we don't have that much time." He said.

"What is happening?" I asked. He sighed.

"Evil knows about you Annie, they know of your powers and wants you to be on their side. Now I know you and I know your heart and you will never do that. But they are going to keep coming after you and the ones you love most until you either join them or defeat them completely." He said. I understood. I had actually been afraid of that.

"But there has to be another way to stop them, I mean other then killing them all because that is impossible!" I exclaimed. He hesitated.

"There is a way to save one of them. But not all of them." He told me.

"Who exactly is 'all of them'?" I asked.

"The ones you are traveling with. They are going to come after all of you. But more specifically that Dean boy." He said. I started to panic.

"But… but you said there was a way to save one of them… what is it?" I said in panic. He smiled.

"An unbreakable bonding." He told me. That was even more confusing.

"What do you mean and unbreakable bonding? Like love? But I love all of them! Gabi is my cousin, Sam is like my brother, and Dean… well, I'm in love with him." I said. My dad just smiled again.

"Yes, but what can secure that kind of bond?" He questioned before starting to face back into the white.

"But dad… which one? Which one can I save for certain?" I yelled out.

"I am always watching out for you Annie…" I heard before he completely drifted out of sight. Then there I was, alone in the light with no answer, only fear.

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I jolted up, but the strange thing was, Sam did to. He stared at me for a second.

"Annie…" He whispered. Dean and Gabi hadn't woken up.

"Did you just…" I asked. He nodded.

"I think so…" He said. I sighed.

"Come on, let's go outside." I told him. We both gently got out of our beds and walked out of the room.

"You saw my dream?" I asked him.

"I think so. All the white and your dad and the unbreakable bond thing." He said. I nodded.

"That was my dream all right. But I don't really think it was a dream, more like a calling." I said. "Wait, I thought you just had premonitions, how could you see into my dreams?"

He shrugged. "I don't know. My dad's friend Missouri told me that my powers would get stronger. She can read minds and things like that and she is psychic. Maybe I can see into other people's dreams, and maybe you need help figuring out what that dream or calling meant."

The kid was smart.

"What do you think?" I asked. "I mean an unbreakable bonding? But with which one of you? I mean I am going to try and keep all of you safe but if I can secure that with at least one of you it would be a huge weight off my shoulders." I said honestly. He didn't seem offended, more like understanding.

"I think he means Dean…" Sam said hesitantly. I didn't get it for a second. We just looked at each other. Then I saw it in his eyes. My eyes widened and I stepped back.

"You mean…. You think that… but, how…" I was tongue tied.

"It is the only thing I can think of. And it makes sense, but the two of you would have to want it for it to work." Sam said.

I looked away in disbelief.

The only way to secure Dean's safety would be marrying him. And I so did not know if I was ready for that. But more so, I didn't know if he was ready for that.