Because I Told You So

by sPaRkLiNG-dIaMoND34

The third part in stroy that started with 'Annie' then 'Forever Love'. The four are on the road again and with the bonus of Annie's new powers. But what happens when they learn about the consequences of these gifts and how do they over come them?

19. The Finality

So last chapter? The next story won't be up as fast as the others because I have the ending for this one but incorporating that into the beginning of the next story is going to be a challenge since unlike 'Annie' and 'Forever Love' this one is not ending with them trying to find something to hunt. So it may be a day or two… but like I said no flames at the end please? Especially since you know that it isn't the end.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own the song 'Don't Stop' it belongs to Saving Jane.

Title help still needed: 'Come Down to me' 'Last Time' 'Reasons Why' 'Missing you' 'Speeding Cars'

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Chapter 19: The Finality

(Awhile after the moving)

Within the next three weeks Dean and I had gotten settled in and were trying to adjust to the new 'normal' life style, Sam and Gabi were going crazy with wedding planning. Well more Gabi then Sam, just because she was crazy anyways. And my dad had past away.

I had been calling him at least once a week, but we never got to go back to Maine. It took us longer then expected to get our lives together and now it was too late. Gabi and I had flown out to go to the funeral. Sam and Dean offered to come, but I really didn't want to deal with Dean on a plane. So it was just the two of us.

But that was a week ago, and I was doing better. Sure it really wasn't fair having no parents at all, but you had to take what life gave you.

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"Come in!" I yelled to the door. Gabi opened it and came in the living room with me.

"Hey there, guess what!" She said excitedly.

"What?" I asked her smiling.

"I got a job!" She announced. Gabi was the lucky one. She had an NYU degree in psychology and a minor in human resources, not to mention she didn't have a criminal record like the rest of us. But she had always wanted to be a designer. That is why she went to NYU in the first place. She just got the other degree's to make her parents happy.

"But I thought you were going to go back to school to do more designing, isn't that what you wanted?" I asked her.

"I am going back to school, but I still needed a job in the meantime since Sam is having a hard time finding one because of the whole record thing and the fact that he dropped out of school, but since he is going back to one of us is definitely going to need a job so since I already had degree's it was much easier for me to get one." She told me.

"Well where are you working?" I asked her.

"I'm doing human resource stuff for a line of clothing stores. That way I can do what I am qualified to do and still be around what I love." She said.

I was proud of her. Suddenly she seemed really grown up to me, more grown up then me.

"Gabi! I'm really proud of you!" I told her smiling. She smiled back and hugged me.

"Thanks! I haven't told Sam yet. I mean not because I don't want to, but I just haven't seen him since this morning and he is in class right now so I can't really call him… which reminds me, I have a class to get to. See you later Annie!" She said before jolting out the door.

I laughed to myself. "And that is Gabi… Here one minute and gone the next." I said to myself, summarizing my cousin.

John had called Dean and asked him to meet him for lunch but just him. So I was home alone and had nothing to do. I was really wondering what those two were talking about though, but seeing as how just sitting on the couch wondering wasn't going to ease my boredom any, I got up and walked into the guest room and into the closet.

The guest room, well it wasn't really a guest room. It was actually kind of our office. It had all of our supernatural hunting gear in it. Along with my laptop and all of the newspaper articles, journal entries, books, and printouts we had collected over the years. This room also had a huge closet which I had made my own.

When Gabi and I had gone back to Maine we had gotten all of my old stuff that I had wanted and brought it back. This included my guitar, my keyboard, a few memorable stuffed animals, all of my Tiffany's jewelry that I had gotten for my birthday since I was eleven, a few pictures and many pairs of shoes.

None of this stuff would fit in my bedroom closet, so I had to make room for it somewhere else.

I looked in it and got my guitar out. I hadn't played it in so long and it was way out of tune. I stepped out of the closet and sat on the floor in the room and tuned it before playing it.

It took me a minute to recognize what I was playing, and then it hit me. It was a song I had written in high school. I wrote it after my first boyfriend had kissed me for the first time.

It was a decent song… but man had I over analyzed a simple kiss. But I had never finished it. After the first verse and chorus I had quit.

'This is when the ink stops flowing
This is when my head starts going
This is when I just can't get it out
This is when the hits keep comin'
Just when I think I'm on to something
This is when the bottom bottoms out

I promise good enough for you
Then I never keep it
I pace the floor at night when all the pretty world is sleeping
And all the world is sleeping

When the lights go down and the girls are screaming,
Don't Stop Now.
Then I catch my breath and my heart is beating and all I'm thinking is
Don't Stop Now.'

That was all I had, and I really wanted to finish it. I didn't know why, but it felt right to finish it, so I attempted it.

I started thinking about how I felt about life then, how I pretty much hated anything that got in my way and hid from the world while I secretly wished that I could see what everyone else saw in me. I thought about how everyone told me I was beautiful and told me I was special but I had never found that in myself. And I had never believed them.

Then I thought about everything in between. How there were ups and downs with everything such as family, relationships, friends, school. And nothing ever seemed stable.

And then there was now. There were still the ups and downs, but with different things. But the majority was perfect and fitting. It was like I finally found where I belonged and what I was meant to do. Dean, Gabi, Sam, the whole saving innocent people, and now having a simple life for once. Sure, there was still pain, but it was better then ever before.

'This is when my hands are shaking' I wrote and sang. Then the rest just started to flow.

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(Dean's POV)

When I got home I immediately heard the strum of a guitar coming from the room. I peeked in on Annie and saw her intently trying to create something. So I decided to stay out of site and listen.

"This is when my hands are shaking" She sang slowly and softly as she wrote it all down. But that wasn't the end. Her words started to flow out of her almost as if it was magic.

'This is when the rules are breaking
This is when the music plays too loud
This is when it's now or never
When it goes from bad to better,
This is when it all makes sense somehow

I promise good enough for you
And pray that I can keep it
And all the world is watching
While I'm open-mouthed and dreaming

When the lights go down and the girls are screaming,
Don't Stop Now.
Then I catch my breath and my heart is beating and all I'm thinking is
Don't Stop Now.'

She had stopped writing a while ago and became consumed by the music. I loved watching her like this. It was almost like she was meant to do it. There was so much passion in her playing and in her voice that it sometimes made me a little jealous. But then when I would let myself here her voice again, all of that doubt would fade.

'I promise good enough for you
And find that I can keep it
And all the world is right with me
And all we are is breathing

When the lights go down and the girls are screaming,
Don't Stop Now.
Then I catch my breath and my heart is beating and all I'm thinking is
Don't Stop Now.

This is when the ink starts flowing
this is where my heart is going
This is when my hands belong to You.'

"I know you are out there." She said breathlessly once she was done. I walked in smiling.

"You sounded great." I told her as I sat down next to her.

"Thanks, it felt good." She said as she flashed one of her bright smiles at me.

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(Annie's POV)

I had heard Dean walk in but I didn't feel like stopping. Everything came to me at once and I knew once I got up that it would be gone. So I finished the song and once I was done I announced to him that I knew he was out there. He came in and sat next to me.

"You sounded great." He told me.

"Thanks, it felt good." I told him smiling. He smiled back and grabbed my hand. "What did your dad need to see you about?" I asked. He hesitantly sighed.

"Just wanted to see how we were." He lied. Dean actually was a very good liar, but I knew him well enough to tell when he was.

"Ok, and then he said…" I pushed. He looked around for a minute but I kept my gaze on him. "Dean, look at me." I said.

I tried to stare him down but it wasn't working.

"Annie, just be careful." He said before getting up and walking out of the room.

Oh no, he was not getting away with that one.

"Dean! What is going on? You have to tell me!" I demanded as I followed him.

"I don't want to!" He said childishly. I rolled my eyes. I hated standing up and arguing with him because physically I felt like a bird arguing with a bear or something. But in the end I always seemed to get him to tell me.

"Hmm, not a good enough reason, sorry." I told him.

"Do you always have to be so sarcastic?" He asked. I laughed coldly.

"Look whose talking!" I replied. He shrugged.

"Ok you got me there." He said. I softened my tone and got closer to him.

"Dean, come one. You know I'm not doing this because I'm nosy. But if I need to be watching out for something I would like to know what it is." I said. He softened a bit to and turned towards me.

"The good powers that we thought we didn't have to worry about anymore, well apparently we do. When I told my dad what was going on with them he started to track them for me. They are just waiting for the right time to strike. I guess they wanted to make sure the demons were really gone." He told me reluctantly. I closed my eyes and slid down the wall.

"I hate this." I said shaking my head. He came down with me and snaked his arm around my waist.

"Me too." He whispered. I leaned onto his shoulder and looked around.

"Dean I don't want to be their puppet. I want my life, what is so wrong with that?" I asked. I heard him take a deep breath as he pulled me closer.

"I don't know babe, but if I can help it they aren't taking you anywhere." He said trying to reassure me of something neither of us was sure about.

The rest of the day went by; Gabi had told Sam about the job, he was happy for her.

The next day went by. Then the next and the next.

Finally, after days of being scared and staying in the house I got out and took a drive in my new car (yes since we weren't all together I had actually gotten my own).

We were actually living in California so Sam could go to USC and Gabi could go to FIDM. But I didn't feel like going to the beach or anything else. So I found an old park on the outskirts of town.

Something struck me as wrong about it. I hadn't really planned on stopping there, but there was only one child there. No one else. Not an adult, not even an animal.

My current situation about being pulled off the earth or something like that should have been enough to stop me. But that little boy was crying. He was alone and abandoned and I couldn't just leave him there.

So, pushing any instinct I had aside, parked the car and ran to him.

He couldn't have been more then four or five years old.

"Hey…" I said softly as I walked towards him. "Hey little guy what's the matter?"

He looked up at me and then pointed towards the back of the park. It was an area covered with trees. It just looked like normal woods. But I knew more then most people that things weren't always what they seemed.

"Did your parents go back there?" I asked him. He shook his head.

"They are calling…" He whispered. I didn't understand.

"Who is calling what?" I replied.

"Them…" He said trembling. He started to cry harder and then he screamed and buried his head in his hands. "It hurts…" He said, still clutching his head.

This was starting to scare me. The sunny sky suddenly turned grey and the trees ruffled in a scary silence in the breeze.

"Ok where are your mom and dad?" I asked him.

"Gone…" He whispered crying.

I was taken back a little bit but I had to keep it cool.

"Ok sweetie, I am going to call some other people who can help ok?" I said. I reached in my pocket for my cell phone but I must have left it in the car. "Stay here." I ordered.

I ran back to my car, found my phone and called Dean.

"Hey there…" He answered. I didn't have time to flirt.

"Hey, I think we have a problem." I told him. I looked back over to see if the little boy was still there.

He had started to run towards the woods.

"Shit..." I muttered.

"Annie, what's wrong?" Dean asked as I started to run.

"Look I don't have time to explain, but there is this old park outside of town. My car is parked in front of it. But there was this kid and he was crying and so I stopped because no one else was around and he kept saying stuff about how somebody was calling and then the sky went dark… and I think this is our kind of problem..." I rambled as I followed the kid.

I yelled for him to come back but he just kept running.

"Ok where are you now?" Dean asked.

"Running into the woods trying to catch him. I can't just let something happen to him." I said running out of breath.

"I will be there soon, just don't do anything once you find him ok?" He said.

"Ok, hurry." I said before hanging up.

This kid was fast. And I had hunted for almost two months and was a little bit out of shape as far as the whole physical exertion of the whole thing. Then within a second the wind had gotten so strong and it blew me back. I looked for the boy and he was no where in sight.

"Annie!" I heard Dean yell. I turned around and saw him running towards me. I tried to stand up but the wind was to strong. I kept trying but it wasn't working.

Then I figured out why. Instead of just blowing me down the wind had started to pull me backwards. I looked behind me, and what I saw would haunt me forever.

It was a huge white opening in the air. Almost like the bright lights you see when you are dying.

And I instantly knew what was happening.

"Dean!" I screamed. He tried to run to me, but once he got to a certain spot the wind split into two. One was pulling me towards to hole and the other was pushing him back.

"Annie hold on!" He yelled. I tried to hold onto vines, dirt, twigs, everything. But it didn't work. I got closer and closer to the white and I was scared.

"Dean! I'm sorry…. I love you…" I screamed as I cried.

"No!" He screamed. He kept trying to fight against the wind but had no luck.

"I'm so sorry…" I whispered. I looked behind me one last time and heard him scream my name before I was consumed by the brightness.

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(Dean's POV)

"Annie!" I yelled one last time before she was taken out of my site.

The whiteness vanished and the wind stopped. I sat there forever staring into space before it actually hit me.

I let the tears fall down my face.

"No…" I whispered. "God please no…send her back!"

I was hysterical, and I had never been this way before.

"Bring her back!" I screamed.

I couldn't breath, I couldn't think. All I could do was cry as I tried to face the finality of what just happened.

Annie was gone. They had taken her just like they said they would. And I didn't know how to save her. I didn't know if I would ever see her again.

THE END

(ok technically not… but it is the end of 'Because I Told You So' hope you enjoyed. Sorry about the cliffhanger, but I had to do it. It was just so tempting.)