WENDIGO

Evie's POV

I was sitting in the back of the Impala writing in my journal blocking out the boring part of hunting which was the long hours spent driving down back roads in the middle of nowhere but out of the corner of my eyes I could see Sam restless in his sleep and it was severely starting to worry me because he hadn't gotten any sleep and when he did he was constantly waking up from nightmares which he refused to talk about but Dean and I knew it was getting worse.

"Dean maybe we should wake him?" I closed my journal bookmarking the page and leaned forward.

"Nah let him sleep, it's the most sleep he's got in a week Eve" I frowned but nodded and crossed my arms resting them on the seat leaning my chin on it. "How are you doing?" I looked up confused.

"Huh, what about me?"

"The voodoo, how's your shoulder it still sore" I shook my head.

"Nope, barely feel it anymore" I replied just as Sam gasped sitting upright in his seat, Dean and I both looked over him concerned. "You okay?" I asked and he turned to me.

"Yeah I'm fine" I frowned knowing that was a total lie and it only served to worry me more, what was it with the Winchesters that they bottled things up to an unhealthy level especially these two muttonheads.

"Another nightmare?" Dean asked him clearly not believing him either, Sam cleared his throat but didn't answer him. "Wanna drive for a while?" I looked up in shock as did Sam because that wasn't like Dean at all.

"Dean, you're whole life you never once asked me that" Sam argued and I stared at him shocked because I would've just shut up and taken the deal straight away.

"Just thought you might want to, never mind" I rolled my eyes but then looked up at Dean.

"Hey, how come you never offer to let me drive?" I protested.

"You're different, I've seen you're driving and wouldn't wish that upon poor Baby" I glared at him but then smiled.

"You know that incriminates you since you're the one who basically taught me to drive" he stared forward as Sam laughed a little and it felt good that I'd made him laugh even if it was for a split second.

"That may be true and besides we have a deal remember Shortstack, say it with me" I groaned.

"Evie can drive Baby only when Dean is unable to do for himself for whatever reason" I chanted along with Dean and I saw Sam smile.

"You got it kiddo" I glared and hit him in the back on the head.

"Kiddo, I'm two years younger than you jackass" Sam shook his head still with the briefest of smile playing on his face before it fell and he looked up at us.

"Look guys, your worried about me I get it and thank you but I'm perfectly okay" I stared blankly at him while Dean made no acknowledgement that he'd heard him clearly ignoring it too before Sam sighed deeply then grabbed the map from the dashboard. "Now, where are we?"

"We are just outside of Grand Junction" Dean replied as I leaned back in my seat again and picked up my journal intending to finish the passage I'd been writing about the latest hunt, adding it to my collection and really thought about calling my Dad, I hadn't done it in a few weeks and he'd probably be getting worried if it wasn't for the updates I gave him through emails.

"You know what, maybe we shouldn't have left Stanford so soon" I looked up a little startled by Sam since he was the one who wanted to get on the road as fast as we did to follow the coordinates their Dad left us, I turned to Dean and we shared a sympathetic look since we both felt horrible about what happened to Jess but there wasn't anything to find so moping around Stanford wasn't going to get us anywhere.

"Sam, we dug around there for a week, we came up with nothing, if you wanna find the thing that killed Jessica-"

"We gotta find Dad first" Sam said cutting Dean off and we shared a small look again before I sighed closing my journal since writing was the last thing on my mind right now and I leaned forward against the front seat again.

"With your Dad disappearing and with this thing showing up again after twenty years it's no coincidence, I'm sure your Dad will have answers, he'll know what to do" I cut in placing my hand on Sam's shoulder.

"It's just weird, these coordinates he gave us, this Black Water Ridge"

"What about it?" Dean and I asked him at the same time.

"There's nothing there just woods" Sam replied then dropped the map into his lap looking up out the front windscreen. "Why's he sending us to the middle of nowhere?" we all shared a look but neither of us had the answer and wouldn't know until we found John.

We passed the sign welcomed us to 'Lost Creek, Colorado' national forest and I sighed sitting back in my seat and I pulled out my phone flipping it open and dialed my Dad's number but it rang out so he mustn't have been home or he was out in the yard.

"Hey Dad it's Evie, just calling in to say hi, if you get this and wanna call back you know the number…okay bye" I hung up and saw both boys looking at me. "What?" they both shook their heads and I rolled my eyes, they we're still sore on my Dad after the fight between our fathers.

We stopped at the ranger station to get a better idea of why John had sent us here and to get a case of the area but it was still confusing to say the least.

"So Blackwater Ridge is pretty remote, it's cut off by these canyons here, rough terrain, dense forest, abandoned silver and gold mines all over the place" I nodded as Sam and I overlooked the 3D map of the area.

"Check out the size of this frigging bear" Sam and I both turned our heads to look at Dean staring at a photo of a grizzly bear on the wall and I raised an eyebrow.

"And a dozen or more grizzles in the area, it's no nature hike that's for sure" I replied walking up to him as he continued to stare at the photo, I was totally not prepared for this one, I hated the woods since nothing ever good came from a hike through the forest.

"You three aren't planning to go out near Blackwater Ridge by any chance?" we turned and saw a Park Ranger standing behind us.

"Oh no sir, we're environmental-study major's from UC Boulder, just working on a paper" Sam replied and Dean and I we're a little surprised by his cover story but quickly hid it and went with it just like John had taught us too.

"Recycle man" Dean added holding up a fist and I hit his shoulder discretely.

"Bull" the ranger said calling our bluff and I mentally panicked just a little. "You're friends with that Haley girl, right?"

"Yes, yes we are…Ranger Wilkinson" I replied quickly after considering this and thought it might lead somewhere on what we we're supposed to be doing here and the boys looked at me a little surprised and I knew it was because I was usually a terrible lair and usually let Dean take the lead on stuff like this.

"Well I will tell you exactly what I told her, her brother filled out a back country permit saying he wouldn't be back until the 24th, so it's not exactly a missing persons now is it?" Dean shook his head. "Tell that girl to quit worrying, I'm sure her brothers just fine"

"We will" Dean replied as the Ranger walked back towards his office. "That Haley girl's quite a pistol, huh?" I turned and glared at him.

"That is putting it mildly" the Ranger replied and I frowned because that was just offensive to women, if a guy was passionate about something it's different but if a girl is then we're crazy, it's so wrong.

"Actually, you know what would help is if I could show her a copy of the backcountry permit, you know so she could see her brother's return date" Dean asked and I shook my head when the Ranger agreed getting it for him before we left.

"Are you cruising for a hookup or something?" Sam asked as we walked back towards the Impala and I turned giving him a glare then quickly hid it reminding myself he didn't know about me and Dean.

"What do you mean?" Dean asked casting a quick nervous look at me but I avoided his eyes moving ahead of them.

"The coordinates point to Blackwater Ridge so what are we waiting for, let's just go find Dad" I turned to Sam a little surprised by his outburst. "I mean, why even talk to this girl?"

"I don't know maybe we should know what we're walking into before we actually walk into it" Dean replied looking up at his brother from across the roof of the Impala.

"Dean's right Sam, we need information before we go barging out into the woods" I added and Dean smiled over at me appreciating me siding with him then we both turned to look at Sam.

"What?" he asked us.

"Since when are you all 'shoot first, ask questions later' anyway?" I asked leaning forward against the side of the Impala.

"Since now" Sam replied blatantly then got in the car, I turned to Dean and he smirked at his brother.

"Oh really?" I rolled my eyes at his look as he climbed into the driver's seat so I followed suit getting into the back shaking my head because this wasn't like Sam.

We drove to the address written down on the permit and Dean knocked on the door a few times before the door opened revealing a girl who looked anything but pleased that there were people on her doorstep.

"You must be Haley Collins, I'm Dean, this is Sam and Evie, we're with the Park Service, Ranger Wilkinson sent us over, we wanted to ask you some questions about your brother Tommy"

"Let me see some ID" the girl replied after checking us over with her eyes and I noticed her gaze rest on Dean a little longer then Sam and me making me frown a little as Dean pulled out a rough job badge for Park Services he'd quickly done before we came here. "Come on in" she opened the door then paused looking over at the Impala parked against the curb behind us. "That yours?"

"Yeah" Dean replied proudly.

"Nice car" she replied then led us inside, Dean turned back mouthing 'Oh my god' and I stared angrily at him as Sam and I followed him inside.

"So if Tommy's not due back for a while how do you know something's wrong?" Sam asked getting straight down to business.

"He checks in everyday by cell, he e-mails photo's, stupid little videos but we haven't heard anything in over three days now"

"Well maybe he can't get cell reception" Haley shook her head at Sam's suggestion.

"He's got a satellite phone too"

"Could it be he's just having fun and forgot to check in?" I asked as Haley went back into the kitchen gathering more food as she set the table we were all standing around.

"He wouldn't do that!" the younger brother at the table argued defensively and Dean turned shooting him a dark look and the kid turned away from Dean's stare, I shook my head moving forward to stand beside Dean.

"Our parents are gone, it's just my two brothers and me, we all keep pretty close tabs on each other" I nodded at Haley understanding that except for the parents gone, I still had my Dad but the part about being close with her brothers I understood since growing up Dean and Sam we'd had been closer than siblings and I'd do anything for them.

"Can I see the pictures he sent you?" Sam asked her.

"Yeah" she agreed then showed us the photos on her laptop and even pointed Tommy out for us as we crowded around the screen before she played the latest video her brother had sent her.

'Hey Haley, day six, were still out near Blackwater Ridge, were fine keeping safe so don't worry okay, talk to you tomorrow' Tommy said on the video but during the video I could've sworn I saw a shadow flicking past, I'd looked at Sam and he looked back at me with a knowing look which told me he'd seen it too.

"Well we'll find your brother, we're heading out to Blackwater Ridge first thing" Dean spoke up while Sam and I still we're still staring at the screen.

"Then maybe I'll see you there" Haley replied making me look up at her. "Look I can't sit around here anymore, so I hired a guide I'm heading out there in the morning and I'm gonna find Tommy myself"

"I think I know how you feel" Dean muttered and I frowned standing up ready to leave.

"Hey, you mind forwarding these to me?" Sam asked looking up at Haley.

"Sure" she replied and once Sam gave her our email we left.

Our next stop ended up being a bar so Sam could look into Tommy's video and we found a table taking a seat, I pulled up a chair beside Dean but leaned back into it letting my eyes scan over the décor as I was still angry at his behavior back there.

"So Blackwater Ridge doesn't get a lot of traffic, local campers mostly but still this past April two hikers went missing out there, they were never found" Sam explained.

"Any before that?" Dean asked him but I could feel his eyes on me so I continued to avoid his eyes.

"Yeah in 1982 eight people all vanished in the same year, authorities said it was a grizzly attack and again in 1959 and again before that in 1936" Sam replied pulling out his laptop. "Every 23 years just like clockwork, okay watch this here's the clincher" I leaned forward a little intrigued since I'd also spotted this back at Haley's. "I downloaded that guy Tommy's video to the laptop, check this out" Sam played the video in slow motion and you saw the shadow we'd seen cross the screen in three frames.

"Do it again" Dean said leaning forward so Sam did.

"That's three frames, it's a fraction of a second" I cut in and they turned to be shocked making me roll my eyes. "Whatever that thing is, it moves fast" I added leaning back in my chair again just as Dean hit Sam in the shoulder.

"Told you something weird was going on" I rolled my eyes looking up as I guy passed our table and winked at me when he caught me looking and I saw Dean's eyes catch the guy's flirt too making me smile because two could play at his game.

"Yeah I got one more thing" Sam quickly said getting both our attention back to him. "In '59, one camper survived the supposed grizzly attack, just a kid barely crawled out of the woods alive"

"Is there a name?" Dean asked sounding angry and Sam looked at him curiously.

We did have a name; Shaw, he was an older man now with greying hair and he let us in once we claimed to be Park Rangers and I felt horrible when I saw the memories flashing past his eyes as we asked what happened that day.

"Look Ranger, I don't know why you're asking me about this, it's public record I was just a kid, my parents got mauled by a-"

"Grizzly, that's what attacked you?" Sam asked cutting the old man off, he nodded turning to us.

"The other people that went missing those were bear attacks too?" Dean asked him. "What about all the people that went missing this year?" I frowned because we we're torturing this poor guy you could see it on his face. "Same thing?" I looked at Dean and shook my head because this wasn't a good idea but he pressed on. "If we knew what we were dealing with we might be able to stop it"

"I seriously doubt that" the old man replied looking over at us. "Anyways I don't see what difference it would make" he added taking a seat. "You wouldn't believe me, nobody ever did"

"Mr Shaw, I can assure you we're not like everyone else, so can you tell us what you saw?" I asked taking a seat on the bed looking kindly at the old man.

"Nothing" he replied looking up at us. "It moved too fast to see, it hid too well, I heard it though a roar like no man or animal I ever heard"

"It came at night?" Sam asked taking a seat beside me and Shaw nodded. "Got inside your tent?"

"It got inside our cabin, I was sleeping in front of the fireplace when it came in, it didn't smash a window or break the door it unlocked it" I frowned and shared a look with the boys. "You know of a bear that could do something like that, I didn't even wake up until I heard my parents screaming"

"It killed them?" Sam asked him.

"Dragged them off into the night, why it left me alive…been asking myself that ever since" I gave the man a sympathetic look. "Did leave me this though" he pulled his shirt and sweater aside and we saw a nasty scar like claw marks but they weren't no grizzly claw marks, they were too clean and precise. "There's something evil in those woods, it was some sort of a demon"

"Thank you Mr Shaw" we left and headed down the hallway as Dean knocked off the likely candidates but I shook my head because it wasn't like an actual demon to do something like this, I would know from all the stories my father told me. "Spirits and demons don't have to unlock doors, they just go through the walls" I cut in following in-between them.

"So it's probably something else, something corporeal" Sam replied, Dean and I turned to look at him.

"'Corporeal' excuse me professor" I laughed shaking my head at Dean as I walked beside him.

"Shut up, so what do you think?" Sam asked him.

"The claws, the speed that it moves…could be a Skinwalker, maybe a Black Dog" could be plausible but I doubted it, there was just something not right. "Whatever we're talking about, were talking about a creature and it's corporeal" I scoffed shaking my head at Dean.

"Which means we can kill it" I added and Dean nodded before we headed down to the Impala and started packing up weapons, everything and anything considering we didn't know exactly what was out there but we had everything under the sun to kill the supernatural. "Dean, we can't let that Haley girl go out there"

"Oh yeah, you gonna tell her that she can't go into the woods because of a big scary monster?" I shook my head because it never turned out well for us when we tried to tell the truth.

"Yeah" Sam replied honestly making Dean and I look up at him.

"Her brother's missing Sam, she's not just gonna sit this out, no we go with her, we protect her and we keep our eyes peeled for our fuzzy predator friend" Dean replied grabbing the duffel bag he'd filled with weapons.

"So finding Dad's not enough?" Sam replied slamming the trunk down. "Now we gotta babysit too?" I furrowed my brows staring at Sam because honestly I had no idea what's gotten into him, this can't be just about Jess. "What?" he asked seeing our stares again.

"Nothing" Dean replied shrugging then threw the bag at Sam before we got into the Impala and found a motel for the night but this time we got two rooms and in the middle of the night I woke up to the sound of my door opening so I tensed and reached for the gun underneath my pillow but sighed in relief when I saw the familiar shadow.

"Dean?"

"Yeah" I moved the covers up and he slid in beside me and I laid my head against his chest as he wrapped his arms around me.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing I just needed you" I smiled looking up but I could see there was something else wrong.

"You're worried about Sam arent you?" he sighed then nodded so I sat up positioning myself over him with my thighs on either side of his waist. "I am too but I don't see a way that's gonna satisfy him until we find your Dad but that doesn't mean we leave innocent people to die, that's not what we do" he nodded running his hands up my thighs.

"I know but I don't know how to handle him Eve, I'm not used to Sam being this way, he's acting…acting like me" I shook my head.

"You're not like that Dean, you show compassion for protecting the innocent and right now Sam is focusing on anger and revenge but eventually he's gonna see that it's not the way to go to find your Dad and the thing that killed Jess and your Mom, we just have to give him time to realize that, even though it feels wrong" I leaned down pressing my chest against his moving my hands around his neck. "He'll come around, I hope" he nodded moving his hand up under my shirt skimming over my back making me shiver.

"God I've missed having you like this, I wish we didn't have to hide but with Sam the way he is, now is not the time" I nodded then smiled.

"Well right now Sam is asleep in your room so we have mine all to ourselves" he smirked then pulled me down crashing our lips together and I sighed against them because it feels like so long since we kissed or did anything intimate. "I love you Dean"

"Me too Shortstack" it was as close as you could get to Dean saying 'I love you' but I didn't need to hear him say the words for me to know that he loved me since for Dean his actions always spoke louder than his words, I've heard the actual words 'I love you' twice from Dean over the course of our one year relationship and every time was enough for me.

The next morning I awoke to an empty bed but smiled anyway knowing he would've snuck back into their shared room early this morning while Sam was hopefully still sleeping but Dean was quick on his feet to think up a lie that even Sam would believe so I didn't have to worry and showered quickly throwing on a pair of denim shorts, red singlet top, a flannel overshirt that I'd stolen from Dean eons ago and never returned then pulled on my combat boots before locking up and went to meet the boys, I knocked first just in case then walked in and saw them ready to go with our weapon bags.

"Okay boy's whose ready to kill this son of a bitch" Dean looked up with a smile but his eyes widened seeing me as had Sam. "What?" I asked looking down at myself.

"Nothing it's just not your typical wardrobe" Sam replied and I smirked flipping my hair back.

"Well we are about to hike through thick forest so I want to be comfortable, now we ready or not?" they both nodded then Sam walked out leaving me with Dean who picked up the duffel back and checked me up and down making me smile. "Eyes up here tiger" he smirked moving past me but stopped just shy of me.

"You're lucky we got work to do or I'd throw you up against the wall" my breath hitched and I looked up at him as my cheeks flushed.

"Maybe later, I think you got plenty last night" I replied seductively then turned and brushed up against his front before I followed after Sam getting into the back as Dean followed me out locking up the room.

The drive up to the entrance to the woods was filled with silence as I rested back in the seat humming along to Led Zeppelin which was playing and I looked up seeing Dean's eyes watching me in the rearview mirror making me roll my eyes since it wasn't like he hadn't seen me in shorts before especially since he's seen me naked as well but it was good to tease him for a change.

We pulled up seeing Haley, her brother and another man already here, I was assuming the other guy was the guide Haley had mentioned hiring and they looked like they were getting ready to hike in so Dean pulled up and we got out.

"You guys got room for three more?" Dean asked.

"Wait you wanna come with us?" Haley asked once again looking Dean up and down.

"Who are these guys?" the guy behind Haley asked and I watched his eyes look me over making me uncomfortable so I inched closer to Dean.

"Apparently this is all the Park Service could muster up for the search and rescue" Haley replied looking back at him before returning her eyes to us.

"You're Rangers?" the guys asked looking at as again and I noticed his eyes skim over me again making me glare because that was a sexist swift of his eyes, he didn't believe a woman would be a Ranger.

"That's right" Dean replied, his voice laced with venom to trained ears and I had a feeling it was because the guide had done nothing but check me out since we got out of the Impala.

"And you're hiking out in biker boots and jeans?" Haley asked giving Dean yet another once over, Dean looked down at himself then looked back up at her.

"Well sweetheart, I don't do shorts" I snorted then followed after Sam who was carrying the weapon bag.

"What, you think this is funny?" the guide asked us and I turned to glare at him. "It's dangerous backcountry, her brother might be hurt"

"Believe me, I know how dangerous it can be" I nodded my agreement since this wasn't our first time hiking through woodland in search of a creature to kill.

"We just wanna help them find their brother, that's all" I added then turned and walked ahead of them but we all entered the woods together with their guide who we'd learnt went by Roy leading with Dean following close behind him while Sam took up the rear and me in the middle keeping our eyes on the surrounding trees for anything.

We spent at least twenty minutes hiking in silence and I was already sick of nature as I'd nearly tripped over some roots or fallen tree roots and I'd seen Dean catch it and smirk the bastard but this was necessary since I wasn't staying back letting them do all the fun stuff like killing this thing.

"So Roy, you said you did a little hunting" Dean spoke up breaking the silence.

"Yeah, more than a little" Roy replied and Dean made a uh-uh sound.

"What kind of furry critters do you hunt?" I rolled my eyes at Dean's need to have a pissing contest with the man when it was obvious what his reply would be.

"Mostly bucks, sometimes bear"

"Tell me, Bambi or Yogi ever hunt you back?" Dean asked and Roy grabbed the back of his jacket pulling him back and my hand reached back to the gun in my waistline but it didn't need to go further. "What are you doing Roy?" Roy picked up a stick then used it to trigger a bear trap that Dean would've walked right into so I relaxed and looked up seeing Sam had seen my reaction.

"You should watch where your stepping Ranger" I shook my head at Roy as he continued forward.

"It was a bear trap" Dean muttered back to us and I rolled my eyes walking forward as he started following Roy.

"Maybe focus on the hunt instead of having a pissing contest Dean" he turned surprised by my tone but I really didn't care, there we're more important things to worry about then the crap he'd been jabbing on about for the past five minutes.

I fell back again taking up the rear with Sam instead and turned my eyes back to our surrounding keeping watch but looked up when I saw Haley speed up to fall into step with Dean and glared towards them.

"You didn't pack any provisions, you guys are carrying a duffel bag, you're not Rangers so who the hell are you?" Haley asked pulling on his arm making him stop as Ben walked past them but Sam and I stopped, Dean gave us the ok to keep walking and I did with a little resistance.

"So what's going on with you and Dean?" I looked up at Sam and shot him a confused look.

"Nothing's going on, why?" I asked glancing back.

"Nothing" he muttered walking forward more and I looked back at Dean one last time before trailing after the others.

Dean's POV

I watched Sam and Evie go the latter with a lot more resistance and I smiled watching them walk away because it was fun making Evie jealous but I knew when not to push it obviously, I turned back to Haley and shrugged my shoulders.

"Sam and I are brothers and Evie she's…she's my girlfriend but my brother doesn't know and we'd like to keep it that way for now, we're here looking for our father, he might be here we don't know, I just figured you and me we're in the same boat"

"Why didn't you tell me that from the start?"

"I'm telling you now" I remarked. "Besides aside from Evie that's probably the most honest I've ever been with a woman, so we're okay?"

"Yeah, okay" she agreed after a second and I inwardly sighed in relief.

"And what do you mean I didn't pack provisions?" I asked then held up a bag of M&M's then winked and we caught back up with the others, I reached Evie and smirked holding out the bag. "Want some?" she glared at me for a second before it softened and she took a handful, chocolate was her weakness just as much as pancakes were which is where her nickname 'Shortstack' had come from, I'd started it when we were kids and it's just stuck.

Evie's POV

Dean and Haley caught back up with us and although I tried to stay mad at Dean he held up a bag of M&M's and smirked knowing chocolate was one of my weaknesses so I took a handful and stuffed them into my mouth rolling my eyes at him as we kept hiking on with Dean and I taking up the rear this time and Sam following behind Roy.

"Sam's getting suspicious" I whispered and Dean turned to me. "He asked what was going on between us"

"What'd you tell him?"

"I told him nothing was going on but Dean he's gonna realize sooner or later and I'd rather it come from us directly"

"Your right" I looked up a little shocked that he'd agreed so fast. "After this hunt we'll tell him and I mean it's not like it wasn't predictable anyway, we've been dodging around our feelings for each other for years" I nodded with a small smile and discreetly squeezed his hand.

He was right, I'd had a crush on Dean since I was twelve but I didn't realize the extent of those feelings that I'd been pushing down until much later and especially noticed them when I started hunting with him and John.

"This is it, Blackwater Ridge" Roy spoke up breaking me out of my thoughts.

"What coordinates are we at?" Sam asked him so Roy pulled out his GPS and checked.

"Thirty Five at minus one eleven" I looked up at Dean because those we're the exact coordinates from John, we walked up to Sam listening intently to the forest around us.

"You hear that?" Dean asked him quietly.

"Yeah" Sam replied. "Not even crickets" I gulped nervously because no sounds in a forest was usually a very bad thing.

"I'm gonna go take a look around" Roy spoke up and we all spun to him.

"You shouldn't go off by yourself" Sam replied turning back to the trees.

"That's sweet, don't worry about me" I rolled my eyes at his smile as he pushed past us holding up his riffle.

"Alright, everybody stays together, let's go" Dean cut in and we walked further in before Haley suddenly stopped sitting down so we took a small break while we waited for Roy to pretend to be the leader.

Dean took a seat on a rock and Sam walked over giving us a frustrated look but there was nothing we could do, we had to stay with these guys since we still had no idea what was actually out here, I leant against a tree and took a sip of water from the bottle I'd thought to bring since the boys didn't even pack provisions if you miscounted Dean's bag of M&M's, I held it out to Dean and he took it taking a drink as well before I looked up and saw Ben and Sam wondering off so I followed them.

Ben moved some foliage away from a rock and I saw an Anasazi symbol painted on it, it looked extremely old so it was obviously legit and Sam made an impressed scoff which made Ben turn confused.

"That's a hell of a find Ben, those are Anasazi"

"What's that?" Ben asked.

"Ancient Indians, they we're this whole civilization that just vanished completely" I replied and Sam looked back at me impressed but he wasn't the only smart one, I'd had an entire supernatural library growing up and often read just to satisfy my own curiosity on my Dad's life before I started hunting for myself.

"No one really knows why" Sam added then turned back to the symbol. "I've seen that symbol somewhere before" he muttered and I cast a look back at the symbol but couldn't pick it where'd I'd seen it either.

"Haley, over here!" Roy called out so we turned and ran heading in his direction running out into a clearing seeing a destroyed campsite with torn tents and blood splatters everywhere. "Looks like a grizzly" I rolled my eyes again because it was obvious this was no grizzly.

"Tommy, Tommy!" Haley yelled out dropping her bag but Sam ran over to her and shushed her because the thing might still be hanging around and screaming wasn't a smart idea. "Why?"

"Something might still be out there" Sam replied.

"Sam, Evie!" I spun eyes widening when Dean wasn't next to me and his voice sounded further away so Sam and I followed his voice and found him a few yards out of camp kneeling down so we walked up and saw drag marks. "The bodies we're dragged from the campsite but here the tracks just vanish, it's weird"

"Well that means it's no Skinwalker or Black Dog" I replied and Dean nodded then gently started pushing me back to the camp with Sam in tow.

We saw Haley kneeling on the ground holding a busted up phone and Dean walked up to her and offered a small amount of comfort by saying her brother might not be dead…yet and any anger towards her vanished as I thought about that being Sam or Dean but that thought was quickly cut off as we all looked up hearing a scream.

"Help!" Roy took off and Dean was quick to follow pulling out his pistol so we all followed because staying together was better than splitting up. "Help!" we ran through the woods following the screams. "Help me!" but it suddenly stopped so we stopped all looking in different directions.

"It seemed like it was coming from around here, didn't it?" Haley asked as we stood listening out for more cries.

"Everybody back to camp" Sam suddenly said sounding panicked and no one argued we went back to camp because something felt wrong.

"Our packs!" Haley exclaimed seeing that all our bags were gone including the weapon bag.

"So much for my GPS and satellite phone" Roy muttered.

"What the hell is going on?" Haley asked and I looked up at Sam and Dean because this was no ordinary run of the mill monster.

"It's smart" Sam replied looking at her. "It wants to cut us off so we can't call for help"

"You mean someone, some nutjob out there just stole our gear" Roy argued glaring at Sam.

"I need to speak with you two, in private" Sam said coming up to me and Dean so we followed him a little bit from camp and I noticed Sam's eyes watching the trees which had me on edge watching them too. "Okay, let me see Dad's journal" Dean reached into his jacket pocket and pulled it out handing it to Sam as we waited for an explanation. "Alright, check that out" he turned to a page then handed it back to Dean so I leaned forward to read as well.

"Oh come on" Dean smiled in disbelief at the creature page Sam had flipped too. "Wendigos are in the Minnesota woods or Northern Michigan, I've never even heard of one this far west" Dean argued.

"Think about it Dean, the claws, the way it can mimic a human voice" I sighed believing it because it was all right under the Wendigo lore.

"Great" I mumbled looking up at them.

"Well then this is useless" Dean added holding up his pistol, Sam walked past us putting John's journal against Dean's chest who grabbed it.

"We gotta get these people to safety" Sam quickly added over our shoulders before we all walked back to camp. "Alright listen up, it's time to go things have gotten more complicated"

"What?" Haley asked.

"Kid don't worry, whatever's out there I think I can handle it" Roy cut in before we could say anything.

"It's not me I'm worried about" Sam argued turning to Roy. "If you shoot this thing you're just gonna make it mad, we have to leave now" Sam was right there was nothing worse than a pissed of Wendigo, I would know I still have the scar from the last one we dealt with when I was still semi-new to hunting.

It was my second real hunt and I was with John and Dean in the woods tracking the thing when we heard a voice yell out and instinctively we'd all ran towards it but with my stamina not as well as the two men I fell back and that's when it hit me, I screamed as the claws dug into my side before passing out.

I woke up a little later to the sound of Dean's voice screaming out my name and I tried to look up as much as I could with my hands tied above my head suspending me off the ground, I was covered in blood, my blood and felt weak from it.

"Dean!" I whispered, my voice raw from lack of water.

"Evie!" he exclaimed coming into view. "Oh Evie" he cut me down but I was too weak to stand and fell into his arms just as John rounded the corner of the cave we we're in.

"Get her out of here, get her help, I'll meet up with you two later" I looked down not wanting to see the disappointment in John's eyes. "Go Dean, now!" Dean swept me up into his arms and ran…

I snapped myself back out of the memory and my hand traced the claw mark scars that ran up my side under my shirt and saw Dean look over at me with both worry and concern etched in his eyes so I offered a small smile to let him know I was fine.

"One your talking nonsense and two you're in no position to give anybody orders" Roy yelled and I looked up glaring at him.

"Relax" Dean yelled out.

"We never should have let you come out here in the first place alright, I'm trying to protect you" Sam added.

"You, protect me!" Roy exclaimed walking up to Sam. "I was hunting these woods when your mommy was still kissing you goodnight" I frowned hand itching towards my gun but Dean stilled my hand shaking his head.

"Yeah, it's a damn near perfect hunter, it's smarter than you and it's gonna hunt you down and eat you alive unless we get your stupid sorry ass out of here" Sam replied with a humorless smile and Roy laughed harshly in his face.

"You know you're crazy right?"

"Yeah you ever hunt a Wend-" Dean and I stepped in pushing Sam away from Roy before he said something he shouldn't.

"Chill out!" Dean warned when Sam pushed us off him.

"Roy stop!" Haley cut in holding Roy back. "Stop it, everybody stop" we turned to here. "Look Tommy might still be alive and I'm not leaving here without him" I sighed in frustration but knew they weren't gonna give up and leave so we better make camp because it was gonna be one long night.

"It's getting late, this thing is a good hunter in the day but an unbelievable hunter at night, we'll never beat it not in the dark" I spoke up.

"We need to settle in and protect ourselves" Dean added.

"How?" Haley asked him but he got to work drawing out the Anasazi symbols which would hopefully keep the Wendigo away while I built a fire as the sun set before falling into darkness and I shivered sitting right by the fire because I hadn't dressed for nighttime. "One more time that's-" Haley asked watching Dean draw more symbols into the dirt.

"Anasazi symbols, it's for protection the Wendigo can't cross over them" Dean replied and Roy laughed sarcastically making me turn and glare up at him.

"Nobody likes a skeptic Roy" I spat at him and Dean shot me a smile before standing up and I watched as he shed his jacket putting it around my shoulders before he walked over to Sam.

"So you and Dean, huh?" I looked up shocked at the girl. "He told me and he told me how his brother doesn't know" I sighed looking over at Dean seeing them having a brother moment and I had a feeling Dean was talking to Sam about his 'not fine' behavior during this whole hunt.

"It's complicated" I looked back down at the fire and hugged into the jacket but after a few seconds I looked up over at the boys again and saw it'd gotten even more serious so I stood up and walked over taking a seat next to Sam.

"…this book, this is Dad's most single most valuable possession, everything he knows about every evil thing is in here and he's passed it on to us, I think he wants us to pick up where he left off, you know saving people, hunting things the family business" I smiled at Dean and nodded.

"That makes no sense" Sam argued rubbing his hands over his face. "Why…why doesn't he just call us, why doesn't he tell us what he wants, tell us where he is?" I frowned moving my hand to his shoulder and squeezed.

"I don't know" Dean replied. "But the way I see it Dad's given us a job to do and I intend to do it" I looked over at him, he'd always been the faithful son who latched on to John's every word so it was easier from him then it was for Sam.

"Dean no" Sam argued looking up at Dean. "I gotta find Dad, I gotta find Jessica's killer it's the only thing I can think about"

"Okay alright, Sam we'll find them I promise" Dean replied and I felt like this was a sibling moment and really shouldn't have come over her but in truth I was scared, I hated Wendigos ever since the one that got me and Dean was my comfort blanket. "Listen to me you've got to prepare yourself, I mean this search could take a while and all that anger you can't keep it burning over the long haul, it's gonna kill you, you gotta have patience man" I smiled recalling our talk last night and nodded a Dean.

"How do you guys do it, how does Dad do it?" Sam suddenly asked making me look up at him.

"Well for one Sammy, them" I replied smiling over at Haley and her brother.

"She's right, I figure our families are so screwed to hell maybe we can help some others, makes things a little bit more bearable" I nodded in agreement rubbing my hands up my legs cause they were starting to freeze away from the fire. "I'll tell you what else helps, killing as many evil sons of bitches as we possibly can"

"Hey that's my line" I argued making Dean laugh and Sam smiled a little.

"Help me!" a voice suddenly screamed cutting our laughs off as we all looked up and moved towards the fire. "Please!" Dean cocked his pistol as Sam scanned the tree with his flashlight. "Help!"

"It's trying to draw us out, just stay cool, stay put" Dean spoke up as I clung to his arm shivering in fear this time instead of the cold.

"Inside the magic circle?" Roy asked scoffing and I rolled my eyes without looking back at him.

"Help!" it was getting closer. "Help me, plea-" it cut itself off and roared making it sound like an attack.

"Okay that's no grizzly" Roy finally said for once sounding like he was starting to believe us, another growl sounded and Haley screamed as the two boys with guns swung them around following the sounds.

"It's here" Dean stated pointing out the obvious, it kept running around us but we couldn't see it since it was moving so fast and Roy started firing off shots before a loud screech echoed and it seemed to take off which was probably just a trick.

"I hit it" Roy said proudly and took off after it.

"Roy no!" Dean yelled then looked back at us. "Don't move!" he took off after Roy and I panicked going to follow him but Sam called me back.

"Eve no, I'll go" I stood frozen in place watching as Sam followed after him and I waited in absolute torture but finally saw them come back and sighed in relief running to them throwing my arms around Sam first since he was closest.

"Don't do that to me guys!" I protested angry then moved to hug Dean.

"Roy?" Haley asked and I finally looked up not seeing him with them, they both shook their heads which I took for the worst.

We sat around the fire with none of us managing to get any sleep being too terrified to even think about shutting our eyes and I stuck close to Dean which obviously made him worry since I rarely was clingy like this unless I was terrified and he knew that.

"Evie I'm not gonna let anything happen to you okay, you know that right?" I looked up and nodded.

"I know Dean, it's just after last time…I bloody hate Wendigo's" he nodded leaning his head on top of mine as I laid it on his shoulder.

When the sun rose finally we all took a small sigh of relief but that didn't mean we were safe since they still hunted in the day and Haley seemed to start panicking so Dean stood and tried to calm her down before she lapsed into a panic attack.

"I don't…I mean these types of things they aren't supposed to be real"

"I wish I could tell you differently" Dean replied picking at some bark around some scratches in a tree.

"How do we know it's not out there watching us?"

"We don't" I replied with my eyes scanning the trees just in case because she was making me paranoid.

"But we're safe for now" Dean added crouching in front of her.

"How do you know about this stuff?" she asked up looking at him.

"It kind of runs in our families" he shrugged as Sam came towards us so I stood and shed Dean's jacket giving it back to him since I didn't need it anymore, he smiled and put it back on.

"Hey, so we got half a chance in the daylight and I for one wanna kill this evil son of a bitch" I rolled my eyes since everyone was stealing my line.

"Well hell you know I'm in" Dean replied with a smile on his face.

"Where you two idjits go, I go" I added smirking up at them, 'idjits' was my father's word but when he wasn't around it was mine.

"Wendigo is a Cree Indian word it means 'evil that devours'" Sam explained for the two non-hunters so they we're better prepared since they still refused to leave.

"They're hundreds of years old, each one was once a man, sometimes an Indian or other times a frontiersman or a miner or a hunter" Dean added.

"How's a man turn into one of those things?" Haley asked us.

"Well it's always the same, during some harsh winter a guy finds himself starving cut off from supplies or help, he becomes a cannibal to survive eating other members of his tribe or camp"

"Like the Donner Party" Ben said looking up at Sam.

"Cultures all over the world believe eating human flesh gives a person certain abilities: speed, strength, immortality"

"If you eat enough of it over the years you become this less-than-human thing, you're always hungry" I added looking up at them.

"So if that's true, how can Tommy still be alive?" Haley asked looking at Dean who was still preparing the firebombs from stuff around the camp since the only way to kill a Wendigo was to burn it alive, Sam, Dean and I all shared a look before turning back to her.

"You're not gonna like it"

"Tell me" she insisted.

"More than anything a Wendigo knows how to last long winters without food, it hibernates for years at a time, when it's awake it keeps its victims alive it…uh it stores them so it can feed whenever it wants" Dean replied.

"If your brothers alive, it's keeping him somewhere dark, hidden and safe and we gotta track it there" I added remembering my brief capture by one of these son of a bitches and shivered subconsciously running my hands over my scars again.

"And then how do we stop it?" Haley asked us.

"Well, guns are useless, so are knives" I replied holding up my useless gun.

"Basically we gotta torch the sucker" Dean added holding up his homemade firebombs before we set out tracking the thing and again I stuck closer to Dean than anyone else with Sam taking up the rear again with Haley and Ben between us.

We we're walking for at least a few hours following claw marks in the trees and marks on the ground before we heard Sam calling for us so we turned and walked back to him seeing his eyes we're staring up into the trees.

"What is it?" Dean asked looking around, I followed Sam's gaze and saw multiple claw marks high up in the trees and it almost seemed too many to be normal which couldn't be good.

"You know, I was thinking those claw prints, so clear and distinct" Sam said then scoffed shaking his head. "They're almost too easy to follow" I nodded in agreement just as a loud growl came from nearby and we all spun around frantically following the sounds before we heard Haley scream just as something fell out of the tree nearly landing on her if she hadn't of moved. "You okay?" Sam asked going over to her.

"Damn it, necks broken" Dean spoke up examining the body of Roy. "Okay, run, run, run" we all took off back towards camp but Ben tripped and Sam and I turned back to help him up before we ran again but I heard Haley scream so I pushed faster before we stopped not seeing Haley or Dean anywhere.

"Haley!" Ben yelled out as I searched for Dean.

"Dean!" I yelled then turned when Sam picked up the broken bottle neck from the firebomb that Dean had. "Dean!" I screamed out again filling with panic that I started to hyperventilate.

"Evie, Eve calm down, we'll find him" I shook my head so Sam grabbed my face lifting my eyes to meet his. "We'll find him but you have to calm down" I nodded taking a deep breath, I couldn't let my emotions get in the way, John had always told us that.

"I'm good" he nodded letting me go then we started to walk in search of any clue on where they went.

"If it keeps its victims alive, why would it kill Roy?" Ben asked us.

"Honestly I think because he shot at it, he pissed it off" Sam replied stepping over a log but my eyes fell to the ground seeing an M&M sitting on the ground and other's just like it leaving a perfect trail that could only be Dean.

"Sam, they went this way" I showed him the blue M&M and he scoffed smiling.

"It's better than breadcrumbs" I nodded and we started following them. "So how long have you and Dean been together?" I turned and stared at Sam in shock.

"I…I'm…I don't…we're not" he smiled shaking his head.

"Come on Evie, you've been my best friend my entire life and he's my brother, you guys can't lie to me, I've known the whole time I was just waiting for you two to say something" I sighed. "Especially since I heard Dean sneaking back into the room last night and I could hear the two of you moaning half the night" I blushed hiding my face to the side.

"It started happening just after you left for college and I started hunting with your Dad and Dean and we officially decided to try the whole couple thing just shy a year now, we meant to tell you but with the hunt in Jericho and then Jess, it just never seemed like the right time"

"I'm happy for you guys, really" I smiled and leaned into the arm he wrapped around my shoulders. "Dean needs someone like you in his life" I nodded then looked up worriedly.

"I can't lose him Sam"

"We're not going to" I nodded again then we climbed down a small rocky hill and found the end of the M&M trail which lead into and abandoned silver mine with a sign that read 'Warning Danger extremely toxic material' I groaned because it was typical Wendigo.

Sam went in first and Ben hesitated so I nodded him in with a small encouraging smile before following him in and we followed the tracks but the further we got the harder it was to see and Sam's flashlight was the only light source we had but we quickly heard growling and Sam turned it off as we hid then watched the Wendigo walk past us.

Ben went to scream so I quickly clamped my hand over his mouth and shook my head holding a finger to my lips telling him to be quiet or he was going to get us all killed, once the coast was clear we pressed on following the tunnel but we stood on some creaky boards before they collapsed underneath us sending us crashing down landing in an underground room.

"Ow" I groaned feeling my ankle which I'd landed on the wrong way but jumped when Ben did and saw human bones littering the floor.

"It's okay, it's okay" Sam said then I looked up and saw Dean and Haley suspended in the air with their hands above their heads.

"Dean!" I whisper shouted and stood up running over to him and grabbed his sides. "Dean, Dean!" his eyes opened and I sighed in relief. "Hey sunshine, you okay?" I asked with a small happy laugh escaping my lips.

"Yeah" he replied nodding painfully.

"Sam cut him down" Sam moved in with his knife and cut the ropes and we both caught Dean lowering him to the ground and as Sam moved to cut Haley down I pulled Dean into a hug. "God I thought I'd lost you"

"Payback" I looked up confused. "For the last Wendigo, it's payback" I rolled my eyes but couldn't help smile.

"I saved you this time" he nodded with a small smile. "I thought it killed you" he groaned as I set him back against a wall.

"You sure you all right?" Sam asked worriedly.

"Yeah, yeah where is it?" Dean asked us.

"It's gone for now" I replied holding on tightly to Dean as I could without hurting him but saw Haley stand and head over to another body which I guessed was Tommy, Sam stood and followed them over to their brother who didn't look to be breathing but when she touched his cheek he jerked awake.

"Cut him down" Sam did cutting him down and they lowered him to the ground given he was down here a long time and exhausted, I turned and saw our bags.

"Dean our packs" he turned then reached into the bag closest to us and pulled out two guns before I helped him stand.

"Check it out" he called and held them up.

"Flare guns, those will work" Sam smiled up at us, we quickly moved heading to the exit with Sam and Dean with the flare guns as I helped Haley carry Tommy between us but I was quickly replaced with Ben when we heard growling and the three of us stood ready in front of the others.

"Looks like someone's home for supper" Dean pointed out.

"We'll never outrun it" Haley said and I turned knowing that was true with the state her brother was in.

"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Dean asked looking up at Sam.

"Yeah I think so" I shook my head knowing exactly what he was thinking.

"Dean no" he ignored me and turned to Haley and her brothers.

"Alright listen to me, stay with Sam and Evie, their gonna get you out of here" I shook my head, he wasn't John and I wasn't leaving him down here.

"What are you gonna do?" Haley asked him and his reply was a wink before he took off.

"Dean!" I whisper shouted after him and Sam grabbed me before I could follow him. "Let me go Sam!"

"No" he dragged me towards the exit as I listened to Dean screaming to the get the Wendigos attention. "Alright come on, hurry"

"Sam I'll kill you, let me go now" he refused to acknowledge except to tighten his grip on me as we went down the tunnels towards the exit but the Wendigo sounded close so Sam let go off me finally then nodded to Haley and the boys.

"Go, get them out of here"

"Sam no" I argued.

"Go, go!" I sighed nodding my head, save these kids first, kill these two bozo's later.

"Come on" I helped them heading to the exit but I stopped hearing a loud growl and the sound of the flare going off. "Sam!" I saw a shadow approaching us and sighed in a brief sense of relief when I saw it was Sam.

"Go, go!" he yelled since the Wendigo was right behind him so we ran towards the exit but it was getting closer by the second but it was still walking as if it was taunting us.

"Hey!" we heard just as another shot went off and it hit directly in the Wendigos stomach sending it up in flames as it screamed before falling dead to the ground and I sighed in relief seeing Dean. "Not bad huh?" I rolled my eyes but ran up and threw my arms around his shoulders crashing into him hearing his groan of pain.

"Sorry" I apologized and stepped back but he just smiled and brushed some hair out of my face behind my ear and I leaned forward pressing my lips to his surprising the hell out of him making me smile before I leaned back and he looked up at Sam worriedly. "Don't worry, he knows" I whispered then wrapped my arm around his waist helping him keep upright since he was still hurt.

We got out and hiked slowly back to town heading to the Ranger Station and they called the ambulance getting Haley and Dean patched up but they we're taking Tommy into the hospital as a precaution since who knew what internal injuries he had.

I was sitting on the hood of the Impala watching Sam and Ben talk to a ranger about a 10ft grizzly which was our cover story when Dean and Haley came up with Dean sitting beside me and he wrapped an arm over my shoulder making me smile and lean into him just appreciating the fact that he was okay.

"So really, I don't know how to thank you" Dean smirked suggestively so I hit his chest.

"Hey" I protested glaring at him as Haley laughed shaking her head.

"Must you cheapen the moment?" I laughed at her reply and nodded my head.

"Yep that's just Dean"

"You riding with you brother?" a paramedic asked her.

"Yeah" she replied just as Ben and Sam came up to us. "Let's go" Haley looked at Dean before pressing a single kiss to his cheek. "I hope you find your father" she added before walking away with Ben getting into the ambulance with Tommy as Sam sat on Dean's other side and we watched the ambulance drive away.

"Man I hate camping" Dean suddenly burst out.

"Me too" Sam replied and I laughed.

"Amen to that" I added laying my head against Dean's chest closing my eyes because I was frigging exhausted having not slept or eaten a decent meal in 24hrs.

"Sam, you know we're gonna find Dad right?" Dean asked looking over at Sam.

"Yeah, I know" Sam replied making me open my eyes to look over at him. "But in the meantime-" he smiled looking up at Dean. "I'm driving" I scoffed but looked up when Dean threw him the keys.

"So when do I get to drive?" I asked as we all moved to get in.

"Never" they replied at the same time.

"Oh come on Dean, can't I drive her once?" I pouted crossing my arms.

"Of course you can" he replied and my eyes widened.

"Really?" I asked excited.

"Yep, when I'm dying remember" my shoulders fell and I groaned.

"You're an ass"

"And you love me for it" he remarked and I rolled my eyes. "Besides Shortstack, while Sammy drives we can sit in the back and sleep, I'm beat" we climbed into the back seat and it didn't take long before Sam started driving that Dean and I passed out in the backseat with him resting back and I was laying in his lap with his leather jacket laying over me acting as my blanket.