Chapter 2: The Reunion
I hesitantly walked to the door; I didn't know whether or not to knock though, so I didn't.
"Dad?" I said when I came through the door. I wasn't greeted by him though, but instead a blur of a person grabbed me and embraced me.
"Annie!" It said. I recognized the voice.
"Gabi!" I exclaimed back and hugged her. We pulled away from each other smiling.
"Oh my god you haven't changed like at all!" She said. I looked at her, neither had she, she still had dark blonde, almost brown hair, and her green eyes hadn't changed. But I didn't remember her being taller then me.
"Neither have you, but did you hit some kind of growth spurt you're senior year?" I asked laughing.
"No, you've just always been little." She said. That was true. "So are you not going to introduce me to your friends?"
"Oh right, Gabi, this is Sam and Dean. Guys, this is Gabi." I said. They greeted each other and then we moved into the living room.
"Hey where is my dad?" I asked her.
"Oh, he had some client to meet this morning and won't be back until around two." She said. Well, I guess things really hadn't changed around here.
We talked for a while in the living room, then we all got settled in out own rooms. I took my old one, Gabi was staying in her room that she had at our house since she was little, and Sam and Dean were staying in the room with two beds.
I walked into my room and looked around. Nothing had been touched. It was still huge, the walls were still the same lavender with the white Victorian furniture. My closing canopy was still attached to my bed, and my shelves were full of the same old books and awards.
"Nice room." I heard Dean say from the door way. I turned around to see him.
"It's like stepping into a time warp or something." I told him. He smiled and walked over to me. "Sometimes I wonder if I actually miss it or if I am extremely happy to be gone."
I went over and sat on my bed and picked up a brown teddy bear that my dad had given me the day that I came to live here and held it. Dean laughed at me a little before coming to sit next to me.
"Most people are supposed to look at peace when they come home, but you look the exact opposite." He told me. I shrugged and lay down so that my head was in his lap. He ran his fingers through my hair and I immediately became more at ease.
"I never really accepted this as my home. I mean I was grateful and all, but I remembered my real mom to much. I remembered the warmth of our small little house, and the way her voice sounded when she would sing me lullabies. And here, I mean it was the exact opposite." I told him. "I mean, I feel so much more at home on the road with you and Sam then I do here."
"That's either really pathetic or really sweet." He joked. I reached up with the teddy bear and hit him in the face. "Ok you are going to get it for that one…" He said before picking up a pillow and whacking me with it.
"Ouch!" I whined. I picked up another pillow and hit him back. It was war.
Before I knew it, my room was a mess. Books had been knocked off the shelves, and since I owned about fifteen pillows, they were everywhere.
Dean was trying to dodge a pillow I was about throw at him when he tripped and fell flat on his back. I laughed and walked over to him.
"I think this means I win!" I told him. But instead of giving up, he grabbed my ankle and pulled me down with him so that I was now lying halfway on top of him. I was laughing really hard by now and so was he.
"I don't think you do." He told me.
"I beg to differ!" I told him.
"Oh yea?" He said, his laughing subsiding and his breathing heavy.
"Yep." I said smiling. "But don't worry; I still love you, even if you are a loser." I joked before kissing him lightly and trying to get up. But he wouldn't let me. He pulled me back down and kissed me harder. I returned the favor and relaxed into his arms.
"I knew one of them had to be more then just your friend." I heard Gabi say from the doorway. I reluctantly pulled myself off of Dean and stood up, he reluctantly did the same.
"Hey Gabi…" I said quietly.
"God, what happened did a freaking tornado hit in here?" She asked, taking in the view of my once perfect, now trashed room.
"Umm, you can say that." I said, laughing some.
"Well I was going to see if you wanted to go get coffee with me, but I can see that you are kind of busy so…" She started, Starbucks sounded very good right now.
"No! No, I'll go. I'll meet you downstairs in a second." I told her. She smiled and walked away.
I turned around to see Dean scowling.
"Once again, you choose coffee over me. I'm starting to doubt this a little bit." He told me. I laughed at him and kissed him lightly.
"It's not all about the coffee this time, she is my cousin who I haven't seen in a very long time and want to catch up with. Plus I have been in the car with you for the past week, I need a break." I joked. He just rolled his eyes and kissed me on the head before heading to my door.
"Ok fine, but I am still expecting that massage later." He told me. I just laughed.
"Fine by me, as long as I get mine." He smiled at me and walked out. I quickly brushed my hair and went downstairs to meet Gabi.
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"So what's up with you and… Dean? Right?" She asked.
I nodded. "Well, I'm kind of in love with the guy." I told her. She rolled her eyes at me.
"That I could tell, but what about him?" She asked. I smiled.
"Well he pretty much claims that he is in love with me too, so I guess it works out fine." I told her. She smiled.
"Aww Annie has a boyfriend!" She said.
"Shut up Gabi" I said laughing.
"So what is the deal with Sam?" She asked. "He is kind of quiet, but really cute."
"Yea, he is a really sweet guy, but something really bad happened to his last girlfriend who he was totally in love with and it hurt him a lot." I told her, giving away as little as information as possible.
"Aww, poor guy." She said. "So, are you still obsessed with all of that crazy stuff? Like witches and ghosts?" This time I was the one to roll my eyes. "Like do you still go out looking for it and stuff?"
"Yep. That's why I'm here in Van Buren actually." I told her. When we were in high school, she would cover for me when I would go out to hunt at night. She never really understood it, but she never really questioned it or said she didn't believe.
"So you like do it for a living?" She asked amused.
"Yea, I do." I told her.
"What do you tell Sam and Dean?" She asked. Ok, how could she not put this together? Honestly she was one of the smartest girls I knew, but she was so air-headed sometimes that I worried about her. So I didn't answer, I just gave her the 'think about it' kind of looked. Her eyes got really wide.
"They do it to!" She exclaimed.
"Good job Einstein." I said laughing. "But you can't say anything, especially to dad."
"Cross my heart." She said.
We sat in the coffee shop for a little while, just catching up. She told me about NYU, and I told her about all the recent things in San Francisco. Then we decided to go home.
"We're back!" I yelled as I walked in to the foyer. But no one answered.
"Huh, I'll go check their room." She said.
"I'll go with you." I told her. We got there, but they weren't there.
"Was the car out front?" She asked. To be honest I didn't remember. I ran down the stairs and looked out the window. The Impala wasn't there.
'Where are they?' I thought
I walked into my room, got out my phone. I had it on silent while we were talking in Starbucks, and I had four missed calls, all from Dean and all in the fifteen minutes.
I listened to the voice mails.
'Annie, don't come back to the house. Sam and I are coming to find you, and then we have to get Gabi somewhere else. That spirit we were looking for is in your house. So don't go back! We will meet you at the coffee place…." There was more, but the next thing I heard was Gabi scream.
"Gabi!" I yelled before running into her room. She was passed out on the floor.
"Shit.' I thought. I ran to her side and cradled her head in my lap.
"Gabs, wake up baby come on!" I whispered. She groaned.
"Something hit me with you're dads old baseball bat, but I couldn't see anything." She told me.
"We have to get out of here." I told her. I helped her up and went as quickly as I could to the door.
I couldn't get it open.
"Oh god, please don't let this be happening to me." I whispered. We had to get out of here and fast. Suddenly, the house started to shake.
I hated spirits, they were so dumb.
I just rolled my eyes.
"Gabi, I know your head hurts and the world is probably spinning right now, but I need you to stand on your own ok?" I told her
"Is it just me or is the house shaking?" She asked.
"Oh the house is shaking." I told her. She leaned on the door post and I cleared off the coat rack, picked it up and busted open the skinny window next to the door. I helped Gabi out and got the keys out of her pocket. Then I got us both in the car and sped out of there.