I will post one more chapter after this, then I will be gone for three days and I am expecting a million bazillion reviews… deal? If not I will be very upset.
Chapter 8: The Job
"So it is a doppelganger…" Sam said. I stuck my tongue out at Dean.
"Told you so!" I exclaimed. We had been arguing over this for the past hour or so. He knitted his eyebrows together and tried to look like he was mad. But it didn't work. I just ended up laughing at him. "You are pretty adorable when you try to pretend babe." I told him.
He smirked and rolled his eyes. "Hey I am always pretty damn adorable." He said.
"Of course you are." I said as I leaned over and kissed him on the cheek.
"Ok, so now that we know what this thing is how do we get rid of it?" Gabi asked. The rest of us of course new the answer to that question.
"We just have to kill it. It is pretty simple actually, well tracking it down isn't, but the rest is. The only problem is, if we kill it then we kill a part of the person that it is duplicating since it is a repressed memory or emotion." Dean said.
"So we just have to find it, shoot it, then we are done? This won't be as hard as I thought." Gabi said sounding relieved.
"Hold on now, it isn't that easy. These things are strong and not the nicest thing to come across in a dark alley. Getting a hold of it isn't going to be that easy." Sam told her. Her relief washed off her face.
"So why does this guy even have a doppelganger?" Dean asked. I looked back at my papers.
"Umm, his little sister was just murdered. And now this thing is haunting him saying it was his fault. I think he must feel responsible. Maybe he did something before she died that made her angry enough to leave and the night she left was the night she was murdered." I suggested. It was only a guess, but we didn't really need to know why the thing was after this guy, just that it was and that we needed to kill it before it hurt him or some one else.
"K, well we will go to his house tonight to search for it." Sam said. We all nodded and just chilled until time to leave.
"Three more days…" Dean said. "Man Annie you are getting old!" He teased. I punched him lightly on the arm.
"Hey, look who's talking 'Mr. I am only three years away from being 30'" I retorted.
"Hey that is three years and two months!" He defended. I laughed and kissed him.
"It's ok. I will love you even if you are an old man." I told him. We just stared into each others eyes for a minute smiling and taking in the moment. Then the silence became to much for me.
"So, what exactly are you doing for my birthday?" I asked. He smiled and leaned down to whisper something in my ear.
"Well if I told you then it wouldn't be much of a surprise would it?" He whispered. God when he did that it sent shivers up my spine.
"Sometimes surprises aren't really my thing…" I replied weakly. He kissed my neck and put his hand on the small of my back.
"But still, I think you will like this surprise." He whispered again. I just shut my eyes and nodded, which was about all I could do. I allowed myself to be pulled into his arms and just let him hold me close for several minutes.
"How can we have moments like this that are so simple and so perfect and still believe in evil?" I said, just thinking out loud. He sighed and held me tighter.
"Because we have seen evil, and battled it, and even though we don't want to, we know that if we don't keep fighting it then there is a good chance we won't be able to have any more of these simple and perfect moments." He said. Wow, that was deep… for Dean anyways. I looked up into his eyes and smiled.
"I believe you were just sentimental my dear." I teased. He smirked his signature smirk.
"Yeah, well only expect that like once every five to ten years. Other then that, I am completely unemotional." He said.
"Hmm, well I guess I either have to deal with that or change it huh?" I said smiling.
"Guess so, but changing it will be very hard." He replied as our faces got closer and closer together.
"I kill demonic forces of evil on weekly basis; I think I can manage you." I whispered right before our lips met.
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(Gabi's POV)
"I feel so left out!" I exasperated and I fell back onto one of the beds in the hotel. Dean and Annie went for a walk, so Sam and I had the room to ourselves. But I was too involved in my self pity at the moment.
"Why do you feel like that?" Sam asked as he sat down next to where I was lying. I sighed.
"Not so much left out as stupid. I mean you guys know all this stuff about doppelgangers and spirits and demons and vampires and all that other scary stuff. And I just feel like a tag along." I told him honestly. He sighed and lay down next to me and pulled me into his arms.
"You are in no way a tag along. Firstly, because I love you and now that I have been around you this long I don't think I could ever not be around you, secondly because you are Annie's cousin, and thirdly, because I love you." He said smiling. I laughed.
"Yeah I think you mentioned that one before." I said.
"Look, you may have a lot to learn, but that is ok. We have been doing this for years, and you are picking it up pretty fast." He told me. I smiled and kissed him lightly.
"Hmm, you know you were right. You must love me, and I am pretty sure I love you too. So that part works out pretty well huh?" I joked. He laughed a little.
"Yeah it does, doesn't it?" He whispered before closing the distance between our faces in an amazing kiss.
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(Annie's POV)
"Ok, so North Carolina is pretty and all… but all this mud is so not good… My shoes are ruined…" I muttered to myself. Gabi nodded and Sam and Dean laughed.
This guy lived on some plantation and it was raining, which made the mud awful. The rain was cold to.
"Hey Annie, do you think you can summon this thing?" Sam asked. I shrugged.
"I can try and think of something…" I replied. Dean gave me a worried glance.
'Don't worry' I mouthed to him. He took a deep breath and I closed my eyes and tried to think of a spell.
"Creature of our hosts past, show your face in this loud night, so we can let you go with out a fight…" I chanted.
It was lame. Dumb actually. But it worked. The doppelganger appeared right before our eyes. Dean and Sam shot it at the same time, and just like that, we were done.
"Good job." Sam said. Dean nodded.
"Yeah, now let's get back so we can clean up please!" Gabi begged. We laughed and headed back to the hotel.
I had taken a shower, changed and was now lying down watching TV, something I hadn't done in a long time. I flipped through the channels and found that one of my favorite movies was on…. The Notebook.
"Gabi come here!" I yelled. We used to always watch this movie, eat junk food, and cry about how our love lives would never be that special.
How wrong we were.
"What is it?" She asked as she ran into the room.
"Look!" I said as I pointed to the TV. The movie had just started so we had plenty of time to watch it.
"The Notebook!" She exclaimed as she sat down next to me. "Wait, I told Sam I was going to make him watch this…"
"Told Sam what?" Sam said as he entered the room. Gabi smiled.
"The Notebook is on, and I told you I was going to make you watch it. So, sit down now!" She joked demandingly. He laughed and sat down next to her as he pulled her into his arms.
Dean was only in the shower which was all of five steps away. But seeing them like this made me miss him.
"Ok I will watch it then." He told her smiling. She smiled back and kissed him lightly.
"Good boy." She said and turned her attention back to the TV.
A couple minutes later the three of us were still all sitting on the same bed with a bunch of soda and chips and had some how found a way to make a full size bed comfortable for three. Then Dean walked out of the bathroom.
"What are you all doing?" He asked, giving us a weird look.
"Watching The Notebook." Gabi told him. "You should watch it with us, Annie needs a cuddle partner." She teased. I rolled my eyes at her.
"Isn't this like the biggest chick flick ever made?" He replied. That got him a pillow aimed at his face by Gabi.
"Maybe, but you still need to watch it." Gabi said. I wasn't planning on making him watch it with us. But he just sighed, came over to me, pulled me into his arms and didn't complain.
So the full size bed made for two people was now some how comfortably holding four.
The movie ended, I looked over and saw tears in Gabi's eyes. I wasn't crying like I normally did though. I looked up at Dean and smiled.
"Thanks for watching it with me." I said quietly. He smiled back and kissed me on the forehead.
"Hey, any excuse I get to hold you for a long time is worth it. Even if that is watching a movie I swore to myself I would never be caught dead watching." He joked.
"See, I am changing you already and you don't even know it." I told him. He just laughed a little and kissed me, this time on the lips.
"Yeah, maybe a little." He whispered.