SKIN

Evie's POV

I was resting back in the Impala with my eyes closed pretending to be asleep or more like trying to fall asleep for the last two hundred miles but to no avail and felt the Impala suddenly pull off the road before Dean turned off the ignition.

"Alright I figure we hit Tucumcari by lunch then head south then Bisbee by midnight" I rolled my eyes underneath my eyelids at Dean's words since we've already been cooped up in the Impala for over twenty-four hours and don't get me wrong I love her but I really just wanted a bed right now. "Sam wears woman's underwear" I chuckled silently.

"I've been listening, I'm just busy" I heard Sam reply.

"Busying doing what?" Dean asked and I heard his door open and felt the movement of someone getting out so I chanced a peek and saw we were stopped at a gas station, I guess Baby needed a fill up.

"Reading emails" Sam replied.

"Emails, from who?" Dean asked as I closed my eyes again feeling a headache coming on from overall lack of decent sleep.

"From my friends at Stanford"

"You're kidding you still keep in touch with your college buddies?" Dean asked him and I rolled my eyes.

"Why not?" Sam asked him right back.

"Well…what exactly do you tell them?" Dean asked walking towards Sam's side. "You know, about where you've been, what you've been doing?"

"I tell them I'm on a road trip with my big brother and my best friend, I tell them I needed some time off after Jess"

"Oh so you lie to them" Dean replied.

"No I just don't tell them everything" Sam argued defensively.

"Yeah that…that's called lying" Dean replied and I shook in silent laughter again. "Look man I get it, telling them the truth is far worse"

"So what am I supposed to do, just cut everybody out of my life?" Sam asked and I opened my eyes seeing Dean shrug. "Your serious?"

"Look it sucks but a job like this you can't get close to people, period" I rolled my eyes.

"Speak for yourself" Sam laughed.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Dean asked.

"Uh Evie, you're pretty close with her" Sam replied

"That's different!" Dean protested.

"Don't drag me into your petty arguing" I spoke up making them both jump and laughed.

"It works for you guys, your both antisocial"

"Ouch Sammy" I remarked smiling at him.

"Eh whatever" Dean shrugged and I rolled my eyes but smiled opening the car door climbing out since I needed to stretch my legs.

"God" Sam suddenly mumbled making Dean and I turn to peek through his window.

"What?" I asked curiously seeing him staring down at his phone still.

"This email from this girl Rebecca Warren, one of those friends of mine"

"She hot?" Dean asked so I hit the back of his head, he turned back to glare at me.

"I went to school with her and her brother Zach, she says Zach's been charged with murder, he's been arrested for killing his girlfriend, Rebecca says he didn't do it but it sounds like the cops have a pretty good case"

"Dude, what kind of people you hanging out with?" I asked Sam but then I couldn't talk, I was literally dating Dean and people would say he was almost a raging lunatic.

"No I know Zach, he's no killer"

"Yeah well maybe you know Zach as well as he knows you" Dean remarked and Sam looked up at us.

"They're in St Louis, were going" I raised an eyebrow towards Sam.

"Look, sorry about your buddy okay but this doesn't sound like our kind of problem" Dean argued.

"It is our problem, they're my friends" Sam argued right back and I sighed rolling my eyes.

"St Louis is 400 miles behind us, Sam" I cut in even though I got that these guys were friends of his but I had been really hoping to just continue on and find a bloody motel so I could sleep in a decent bed but Sam just pulled the puppy eye look and I sighed. "Fine sasquatch but get in the back, I'm startin' to cramp back there" he smiled nodding his head then jumped over the seat into the back and I looked up at Dean who was staring at me. "It won't hurt to check it out Dean and besides it's not like we got a case anywhere else" he sighed rolling his eyes before he finished filling up Baby and I quickly ducked inside for a coffee since this was gonna be a long drive.

When I returned to the Impala Dean was already in the driver's seat waiting and when I climbed into the passenger seat he didn't waste any time speeding back out onto the road leaving skid marks as we drove back down the road we came and I was right it was a long silent drive to St Louis.

When we drove into St Louis Sam directed Dean to this Rebecca's address and he parked before we headed up the porch steps and Sam knocked while Dean and I stood behind him, I could tell he wasn't happy about the change of plans so I grabbed his hand squeezing it and ran my thumb over his knuckles and he smiled down at me just as the door opened.

"Oh my god, Sam!" the girl exclaimed seeing Sam.

"Well if it isn't little Becky"

"And you know what you can do with that 'little Becky' crap" she replied pulling Sammy into a hug.

"I got your email" Sam said once they let go and I looked up at Dean feeling severely ignored.

"I didn't think you would come here"

"Dean, older brother" Dean finally spoke up stepping past Sam to shake Rebecca's hand. "This is Evie…my girlfriend" I smiled at Dean then turned to Rebecca and shook her hand as well.

"Were here to help, whatever we can do" Sam cut in.

"Come in" she replied so we all walked in and Dean closed the door behind us and I stopped to stare, this place was massive.

"Nice place" Dean and I said at the exact same time as we followed them through the house.

"It's my parents, I was just crashing here for the long weekend when everything happened, I decided to take the semester off I'm gonna stay until Zach's free"

"Where are you folks?" Sam asked her.

"They live in Paris for half the year so they're on their way home now for the trial, you guys want a beer?"

"Hey" Dean replied pointing at her.

"No thanks" Sam cut in glaring at his brother then turned back to Rebecca. "So tell us what happened?"

"Well um…Zach came home and he found Emily tied to a chair and she was beaten up and bloody and she wasn't breathing and so he called 911 and the police they showed up and…and they arrested him but the thing is the only way Zach could have killed Emily is if he was in two places at the same time" she replied choking up with tears glistening in her eyes. "The police, they have a video it's from the security tape from across the street and it shows Zach coming home at 10:30, now Emily was killed just after that but I swear he was here with me having a few beers until at least after midnight"

"You know maybe we could see the crime scene, Zach's house" Sam said looking up at me and Dean.

"We could" Dean reluctantly agreed.

"I mean why?" Rebecca asked us. "I mean what could you do?'

"Well me, not much but Dean's a cop" Sam replied and Dean chuckled nervously.

"A detective actually" Dean spat out when Rebecca looked at him.

"Really, where?"

"Bisbee, Arizona" I sighed under my breath then smiled at Rebecca.

"But he's off duty now" I added to our horrible lie.

"It's so nice to offer but I just…I don't know" Rebecca argued looking down.

"Beck look, I know Zach didn't do this, now we have to find a way to prove that he's innocent" Sam replied and she looked around before nodding her head.

"Okay, I'm gonna go get the keys" she walked away and once she was out of sight Dean whistled walking over to Sam.

"Oh yeah man, you're a real straight shooter with your friends"

"Look Zach and Becky need our help" Sam argued glaring at Dean.

"I just don't think this is our kind of problem" Dean argued back.

"Two places at once, we've looked into less" Sam replied then they both turned to me for my input.

"Don't look at me, I ain't getting in the middle of this" I replied throwing my hands up in surrender since I knew better than to get in the middle of the brothers arguments, I'm perfectly happy to stay Switzerland.

Becky returned with the keys so we went out to the Impala with Sam getting in the back with Becky while I rode shot gun as Dean followed the directions Becky gave him to Zach's place and we pulled up in the neighborhood and got out in front of an apartment block with one of them surrounded by police tape.

"You're sure this is okay?" Becky asked looking at Dean.

"Yeah I am an officer of the law" he replied glancing over at me and Sam then we headed in with her opening the door for us and we ducked under the police tape going inside but Sam and I turned back seeing Rebecca hesitating by the door.

"Beck, you wanna wait outside?" Sam asked but she shook her head coming inside.

"No I wanna help" I nodded my head then turned back to the crime scene frowning at all the blood as I walked carefully looking for any clues on what happened.

"Tell us what else the police said?" Sam asked her.

"Well there's no sign of a break-in, they say Emily let her attacker in and the lawyers they're already talking about a plea-bargain" she replied then looked around and got choked up again. "Oh god"

"Look Beck, if Zach didn't do this it means someone else did, any idea who?" Sam asked her as Dean and I continued to look around.

"Um there was something, about a week before somebody broke in here they stole some clothes, Zach's clothes, the police they don't think it's anything I mean where not that far from downtown, sometimes people get robbed" I nodded then walked back towards the door where the dog next door was going nuts at the fence barking right at us. "You know that used to be the sweetest dog" Becky said coming up behind me.

"What happened?" I asked her.

"He just changed" she replied and I felt Dean come up behind us.

"Do you remember when he changed?" he asked her.

"I guess around the time of the murder" I frowned looking up at Dean and we shared a look before walking towards Sam who was staring at the fridge at a photo.

"So the neighbor's dog went psycho right around the time Zach's girlfriend was killed"

"Animals can have a sharp sense of the paranormal" Sam muttered.

"Yeah maybe Fido saw something" Dean added and Sam smirked.

"So you think maybe this is our kind of problem" I chuckled at Sam then looked back at Dean and he smirked himself and shook his head.

"No probably not but we should look at that security tape, you know just to make sure" Dean replied which meant he did think this was our problem just didn't want to admit he was wrong, we turned back to Becky as she walked towards us. "So the tape, the security footage think maybe your lawyers could get it?" Dean asked her. "See I just don't have that kind of jurisdiction"

"I've already got it, I didn't want to say something in front of the cop" Becky replied looking at Sam but nodded her head at Dean. "I um…I stole it off the lawyers desk, I just had to see for myself"

"All right" Dean replied then gestured for her to lead the way, we went back to Rebecca's parents place and she showed us the security footage that showed four different cameras.

"Here he comes" Becky pointed out looking at the bottom right camera.

"22:04, that's just after 10, you said time of death was about 10:30" Dean pointed out.

"Our lawyers hired some kind of video expert, he said the tapes authentic it wasn't tampered with"

"Hey Beck, can we take those beers now?" Sam suddenly spoke up and I turned to him confused but suspicious since maybe he'd seen something.

"Oh sure" she replied getting up.

"Hey uh…maybe some sandwiches too?"

"What do you think this is, Hooters?" she remarked at Sam then walked out and Dean chucked.

"I wish" I glared up at him so he cleared his throat then looked at Sam. "What is it?" he got up and walked over to where Sam and I were.

"Check this out" Sam said as we got closer to the TV and he rewound the tape and I watched as Zach walked in front of one of the cameras and I noticed his eyes were white, just white.

"Maybe it's just a camera flare" Dean theorized but I shook my head.

"That's not like any flare I've ever seen" I replied looking at him since as a kid I used to be into photography and my room back home was covered in pictures I'd taken but I've never seen a camera flare like that.

"You know a lot of cultures believe a photo can catch a glimpse of the soul" Sam said and I nodded reading that once upon a time. "Remember that dog, maybe he saw this thing, maybe this is some kind of dark double of Zach's something that looks like him but isn't"

"Like a doppelganger" Dean replied and I nodded my head.

"Yeah that would sure explain how he was in two places at once"

We told Becky we'd get back to her and headed to a motel to research anything that would explain the appearance of someone else or the eyes but came up with nothing so Dean and I went to bed both feeling exhausted but were rudely woken up by Sam.

"Dean, Evie get up" I groaned rolling over pulling the pillow over my head.

"Go away Sam!"

"I got an idea, we gotta go" I sighed looking over at the alarm clock and saw it was 5:15am and growled angrily.

"This better be good" I replied getting up and headed into the bathroom closing the door and had a quick shower changing clothes before meeting the boys outside in the Impala getting in the back and Sam told Dean to go to Zach's apartment and to pull into the back alley.

"Alright so what are we doing here at 5:30 in the morning?" Dean asked sounding as tired as I felt and we were both chugging down coffee like water.

"I realised something, the video tape shows the killer going in but not coming out"

"So he came out the back door" I replied taking another sip of my coffee.

"Right" Sam said walking towards the garbage bin. "So there should be a trail to follow, a trail that the police would never pursue"

"Cause they think the killer never left, they caught your friend Zach inside" Dean replied leaning against the hood of the Impala.

"I still don't know what we're doing here at 5:30 in the morning" I muttered sitting next to him and leaned my head on his shoulder suppressing a yawn. "We're getting our own room next time" I mumbled then looked up seeing Sam walk over to a pole and look down at it.

"Blood, somebody came this way"

"Maybe the trail ends, I don't see anything over here" Dean replied looking around at our feet but we all looked up as an ambulance sped past us before we all shared a look and followed it seeing police and ambulance workers surrounding a building taping the civilians off.

"What happened?" I asked a girl near us.

"He tried to kill his wife, tied her up and beat her"

"Really?" Sam asked her as we looked on.

"I used to see him going to work in the morning, he'd wave say hello, he'd seemed like such a nice guy" we saw a man being put into the back of a police car before sharing another look with each other before Sam and I walked around to the back of the building and followed his theory that whatever was killing these people always snuck out the back.

We walked around looking for blood trails and even checked the inside bins before Dean walked up to us having been doing recon out the front asking around.

"Hey remember when I said this wasn't our problem?" Sam and I nodded. "Definitely our kind of problem"

"What'd you find out?" I asked him.

"I just talked to the patrolman who was first on the scene he heard this guy Alex's story, apparently the dude was driving home from a business trip when his wife was attacked"

"So he was two places at once?" Sam asked him.

"Exactly" Dean gloated. "Then he sees himself in the house, police think he's a nutjob"

"Two dark doubles attacking loved ones in exactly the same way" Sam replied and I suddenly thought about reading something in one of my Dad's books.

"Could be the same thing doing it too" I replied and waited for them to catch on and it was Sam first.

"Shapeshifter, something that can make itself look anyone?"

"Every culture in the world has a shapeshifter lore" I smirked and Dean stared at us. "Legends of creatures who can transform themselves into animals or other men"

"Right skin walkers, werewolves"

"Alright encyclopedias" Dean cut in staring at us and I rolled my eyes smiling at him. "We got two attacks within blocks of each other, I'm guessing we got a shapeshifter problem in the neighborhood"

"Let me ask you this: in all the shapeshifter lore, can any of them fly?" Sam asked looking at me but I shook my head.

"Not that I know of"

"I picked up a trail here, someone ran out the back of this building headed of this way" he pointed towards the alley.

"Just like your friend's house" Dean pointed out.

"Yeah and just like at Zach's house the trail suddenly ends, I mean whatever it is just disappeared"

"Well there's another way to go" Dean replied and we turned to him. "Down" we looked down and saw a sewage cover and I frowned looking down at my clothes, I wasn't dressed to trudge through sewage.

"Ah man" I groaned and when the coast was semi-clear they pulled the manhole cover up and we slipped down the ladder and I looked around with disgust.

"I bet this runs right by Zach's house too" Sam stated looking down the left side. "The shapeshifter could be using the sewer system to get around" he walked over to where Dean and I stood and we both looked up.

"I think your right" Dean stated as we stared at some kind of disgusting sludge substance. "Look at this" Dean knelt down and flipped out his knife using it to lift some up.

"Is this from his victims?" Sam asked.

"You know I just had a sick thought, when the shapeshifter changes shape maybe it sheds?" Dean replied and I felt like I was gonna be sick as he threw the glop back down.

"That is sick" Sam agreed.

We went back up and went to the Impala with Dean going straight to the back and opened up the secret compartment and started rummaging around in the ammo compartment and I knew what he was looking for so I reached around him and grabbed the silver bullet container holding it out and he smiled taking it.

"One thing I learned from Dad: is that no matter what kind of shapeshifter it is, there's one sure way to kill it"

"Silver bullet to the heart" Sam replied as Dean and I started loading our guns with the silver bullets.

"That's right" Dean praised just as Sam's phone rang and he walked away answering it but from the looks and sound of it, it wasn't a pleasant conversation so when he hung up Dean walked over to him while I shut the boot. "I hate to say it but that's exactly what I'm talking about, you lie to your friends because if they found out about the real you, they'd be freaked" Dean spoke up and I frowned up at him. "It's just…it'd be easier if-"

"If I was like you" Sam spat cutting Dean off.

"Hey like it or not, were not like other people" I looked down suddenly thinking that if Dean and I weren't hunters then I probably wouldn't even be with Dean since what he said was true and if we weren't hunters and had other options than maybe…maybe we wouldn't even together. "But I'll tell you one thing, this whole gig it ain't without perks" he added holding out a spare gun for Sam.

Sam scoffed taking it and stashed it in his waistline as they started walking away but I hesitated still thinking about me and Dean and the more I did the more I felt it to be truer, I'd never questioned it before because I didn't want to but-

"Shortstack, you coming or not?" I looked up seeing Dean had stopped and was looking back at me curious.

"Uh yeah" I mumbled then walked catching up with them and we headed back down into the sewage system, this time armed and with proper lights.

We followed the different tunnels for a few minutes with Dean in the lead and Sam taking the back so I was between them looking around with my own flashlight to watch were I was stepping since there was sewage and rats everywhere making me seriously sick and would rather be anywhere else right now especially since my thoughts from earlier kept playing in my head constantly.

We found where the water ran and I had to cover my nose from the stench of it as we walked down another tunnel with pipes all leading the same direction and I shined the light around right on more of the shapeshifters shedding.

"I think were close to its lair" I pointed out nodding at Dean who was now behind me and he looked where my light was shining.

"Why do you say that?" Sam asked without turning to us.

"Cause there's another puke-inducing pile next to your face" I replied and he turned seeing it for the first time.

"Oh god" he groaned then checked to see if any of it had rubbed on his jacket.

"Looks like it's lived here for a while" Dean pointed out shining his flashlight over some more shed piles along with various pieces of clothing.

"Who knows how many murders he's gotten away with" Sam replied then turned. "Dean!" he yelled so we spun just in time to see the shapeshifter before it punched Dean in the face then took off as Sam shot two times at it before it disappeared.

"Get the son of a bitch" Dean groaned as Sam paused to help me stand him up as he clutched his shoulder in his hand since he'd landed on it wrong.

We took off following it and climbed back to the surface seeing that it was the only way it could've gone but when Sam and I looked around we couldn't see it anywhere and quickly stashed our guns since we were in a populated area, Dean grunted as he climbed up holding onto his arm in pain.

"Alright let's split up" Sam suggested.

"Alright I'll meet you's on the other side" Dean replied then sent me a look that read 'Be careful' so I nodded back a silent 'You too' then we each took off in different directions but I couldn't see the thing anywhere so I backtracked and found Sam.

"Sam!" he turned as I approached and I looked around for Dean but he wasn't back yet. "You see him?" he shook his head.

"Hey" Dean called behind us so we turned and saw him finally walking towards us. "Anything?" he asked as soon as we reached us.

"No he's gone" I replied shaking my head.

"Alright let's get back to the car" he said so we nodded and Sam started walking back to where we'd left the car but Dean suddenly pulled me back and crashed his lips down on mine, my eyes widened in surprise and lent back.

"Dean, are you okay?" I asked since that wasn't like him especially when we're working a case.

"Yeah fine, I was just worried about you"

"Guys you coming?" Sam asked and I nodded walking to catch up thinking about what just happened, it didn't seem like Dean but I shrugged it off since Dean wasn't ever normal and usually did crazy stuff like that so it was probably nothing, we got back to the Impala exactly where we left it.

"You think he found another way underground?" Sam asked as we walked up to Baby.

"Yeah probably" Dean replied then smiled down at me. "Evelyn you got the keys?" I reached into my pocket but not for the keys and touched my gun since he never once calls me Evelyn.

"Hey didn't your Dad once face a shapeshifter in San Antonio?" I asked and Sam turned to me curiously but I kept stone faced watching Dean…or whoever this was since I knew it wasn't Dean.

"No it was Austin" he replied looking at me and I frowned since he'd corrected me just like I wanted him too but I still couldn't shake something was wrong with him. "And it turned out not to be a shapeshifter, it was a thought-form a psychic projection remember?"

"Oh right" I mumbled shaking my head then moved my hand and threw him the keys even if something kept telling me this wasn't Dean, he immediately opened up the trunk as I moved away with Sam and gave him a look and he nodded making me sigh in relief, I wasn't the only paranoid one so we rounded the car and instantly raised our guns pointing them at it.

"Don't move!" Sam yelled and the shifter flinched.

"What have you done with him?" I asked.

"Guys chill, it's me alright?"

"I don't think so, I know how my boyfriend acts" I replied glaring at him.

"Where's my brother?" Sam asked it.

"You's are about to shoot him" I glared holding my gun up higher. "Evie calm down" it warned.

"You caught those keys with your left, your shoulder was hurt" Sam spat at it and that must've been what tipped him off.

"Yeah it's better" it shrugged. "You want me to cry?"

"You're not my boyfriend" I replied at the same time Sam said 'You're not my brother'.

"Why don't you pull the trigger then?" it asked us. "Mm cause you're not sure" it added then turned to me. "Eve you know me"

"Don't" I warned taking a step forward and that was the last thing I remember doing before pain erupted in my skull and I was out cold.

I woke up groaning as I felt the sticky feeling of blood running down my face and looked up hearing a soft voice call my name and saw Sam tied down in front of me, I tried to move but was also held down by various ropes keeping me in place.

"Ah god, how bad is it Sam?" I asked turning my face.

"Your bleeding pretty bad" he replied just as the shifter walked in still wearing Dean's look and he walked over to us…to me then slapped me across the face.

"Son of a bitch!" I groaned glaring up at it as it walked away. "Where is he?"

"Where's Dean?" Sam added as if to clarify who I was talking about.

"I wouldn't worry about him" it replied moving back towards us with a bag full of rope. "I'd worry about yourselves"

"Where is he?" I spat glaring and it turned to me.

"You don't really want to know" it replied then chuckled. "I swear the more I learn about you and your family's, I thought I came from a bad background"

"What do you mean learn?" Sam asked it and it looked up raising a medieval looking knife before it suddenly winced grabbing at its head like it just got a hell of a migraine.

"He sure got issues with you" it said once whatever just happened stopped and looked at Sam. "And you sweetheart…there's so much about you" I glared at it.

"Shut up" I spat and it smirked before turning back to Sam.

"You got to go to college, he had to stay home" he dropped the bag in his hand to the ground in front of Sam. "I mean I had to stay home with Dad, you don't think I had dreams of my own but Dad needed me, where the hell were you?"

"Where is my brother?" Sam asked it again.

"I'm your brother" it replied leaning closer into Sam. "See deep down I'm just jealous, you got friends, you could have a life" I frowned wondering if these really were Dean's thoughts that it was somehow downloading into its own head. "Me, I know I'm a freak and sooner or later everybody's gonna leave me, including little Shortstack over there"

"Don't call me that!" I growled at it and it turned with a smile.

"What are you talking about?" Sam asked it before he could do anything or saying anything to me and I was glad for that because I don't want to know what Dean really thinks of me, I already have enough doubt concocted up from my own mind that Dean thought I wasn't good enough and would eventually get rid of me.

"You left, hell I did everything Dad asked of me to and he ditched me too, no explanation, nothing just" he gestured a pfft with his hands. "Left me with your sorry ass" it added looking at me and I looked down. "But still this life it's not without its perks, I meet the nicest people" I shook my head reminding myself that this isn't Dean saying this. "I mean little Becky" it added then turned to me again. "You know Dean would bang her if he had the chance, he's thought about it but then you pop into his mind and hold him back" I looked at him stone faced but inside I felt it cutting into my heart that maybe I did hold Dean back, I was nothing. "Let's see what happens?" it added back at Sam then covered his head and moved towards me. "He does love you Shortstack but deep down you deserve better" it leaned in like it was about to kiss me again so I spat right into its face and it responded by backhanding my face before covering my head as well and I listened to its footsteps leave.

After a few minutes Sam and I both managed to shake the bags off our head from years of practice getting out of situations like this and we both tried untying ourselves but the son of a bitch had tied them as tight as he could get them.

"Oh damn it" Sam groaned struggling with his own just as we heard a cough and both looked up towards where it'd come from.

"That better be you Sam and not that freak of nature" I sighed in relief at the sound of Dean's voice knowing it was the real Dean and Sam chuckled.

"Yeah it's me, he went to Rebecca's house looking like you" Sam replied.

"Well he's not stupid, he picked the handsome one" Dean replied and just as I went to laugh I felt something crawling on my shoulder and turned seeing it was a frigging rat so I screamed and shook flinging it off me.

"Oh my god, that is disgusting!" I exclaimed and Sam laughed having seen what happened. "Shut it sasquatch, how bout I let a rat crawl over you huh" I could hear Dean chuckling now.

"And that's got to be the real Evie?" Dean asked.

"Yeah" I replied smiling as he turned his head to see me. "How you doing over there?"

"Not bad, you?" he asked and Sam shook his head at us.

"Other than the vermin and getting hit over the head three times by that son of a bitch, I'm good"

"He hit you!" Dean exclaimed.

"Don't worry, I can take a few hits Dean" I assured him as we all got back to work getting loose as we told him everything the shifter had said and did.

"That's the thing, he didn't just look like you, he was you or he was becoming you" Sam filled in just as I saw Dean had gotten loose and shook the ropes off himself.

"What do you mean?" he asked getting the ropes around his legs.

"I don't know it was like he was downloading your thoughts and memories"

"You mean like the Vulcan Mind Meld?" Dean asked and I laughed.

"Yeah something like that" I replied thinking back to what the shifter had said to me, that I held Dean back from who he wanted to be.

"Maybe that's why he doesn't just kill us" Sam cut in when I stopped and looked down losing track of my own head as it ran with thoughts.

"Maybe he needs to keep us alive for the psychic connection" Dean replied and I briefly looked up seeing he was completely free from his ropes and untying Sam and frowned again, maybe I should just let them find their Dad themselves and go home, Dean didn't need me anymore.

"Come on, we gotta go he's probably at Rebecca's already" Sam said just as Dean got him loose then left him to untie his legs as he came over to me and got started untying my hands.

"You okay Shortstack?" I winced hearing that and he frowned at me seeing it. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing just get me loose" he nodded untying my wrists then helped me with the ones around my legs and helped me stand up but I stepped out of his arms as soon as I could. "We should go" I didn't miss the hurt look cross his face as I started for what looked like the exit and we found our way back up to the alley way and looked around.

"Come on, we gotta find a phone call the police" Sam spoke up helping me out of the sewer cover.

"Whoa, whoa your gonna put an APB out on me?" Dean protested climbing out after me.

"Sorry" was Sam's reply.

"This way" Dean sighed and led the way up the alley way till we found a pay-phone and tipped off the police to get to Rebecca's and we hung low waiting but as we walked past a TV store Dean paused since the news was on and covering the story on what happened at Rebecca's already.

'An anonymous tip led police to a home in the Central West End where a SWAT team discovered a local woman bound and gagged' the news reported said before a drawn mug-shot of Dean came up on the screen. 'Her attacker, a white male approximately 24 to 30 years of age was discovered hiding in the home, shots were fired-'

"Man that's not even a good picture" Dean protested and I rolled my eyes.

"It's good enough" Sam replied nervously glancing up and down the street.

'He may be armed and is dangerous' the reported added before we walked away with Dean trudging behind us clearly sulking.

"Ah come on" he protested accidently stepping in a puddle, he was definitely in a mood and I didn't blame him.

"They said attempted murder, at least we know-"

"I didn't kill her!" Dean snapped cutting Sam off.

"I'll check on Rebecca in the morning, see if she's alright" Sam continued ignoring Dean.

"First I'm gonna find that handsome devil and kick the holy crap out of him"

"We have no weapons, no silver bullets" Sam argued.

"Sam the guys walking around with my face, okay it's a little personal I want to find him" Dean snapped again and I frowned keeping my eyes locked to the ground so they didn't drag me into this as usual.

"Okay, where do we look?" Sam asked nodding his head.

"We could start with the sewers" Dean suggested.

"We have no weapons, he stole our guns we need more" Sam repeated then a look of determination set into his eyes. "The car?"

"I'm betting he drove over to Rebecca's" Dean suggested.

"The news said he fled on foot, I bet it's still parked there" Sam replied and Dean made an angry noise.

"The thought of him driving my car" he protested then carried on so I wordlessly followed. "It's killing me"

"Let it go" Sam argued as we trudged off walking the entire way to Rebecca's place and when we rounded the corner Dean let out a happy breath when we saw the car parked in the alley way.

"There she is" we started walking towards it. "Finally something went right tonight" Dean added just as sirens blared and a cop car turned up so we quickly hid but they'd already seen us and we were cut off from both sides. "Ah crap!" we looked around seeing an opening. "This way, this way!" Dean exclaimed grabbing for my hand but I pulled it out of his way and he frowned but didn't have time to question it as he ran from the cops.

"You guys go, I'll hold them off" Sam spoke up stopping us in our tracks.

"What are you talking about, they'll catch you?" Dean argued stopping.

"They can't hold me!" Sam protested loudly. "Just go keep out of sight, meet me at Rebecca's" I groaned not liking this plan but two out here was better than one. "Stay out of the sewers alone" Sam added as Dean and I jumped the fence then jumped down the other side. "I mean it!" we heard Sam yell.

"Yeah, yeah" Dean responded back before we ran and waited for the cops to disappear with Sam before we rounded back and got Baby then drove a safe distance from anywhere we might be spotted. "Alright Evie talk to me?" Dean suddenly spoke up and I turned to him.

"What?"

"Don't 'what' me, I know something's bothering you so what is it, what did that bastard say to you back there?" I sighed looking out the side window. "Damn it Eve come on!" he exclaimed.

"It's nothing Dean, let it go" I protested.

"No I ain't gonna let it go" I frowned looking down at my hands in my lap feeling tears pooling in my eyes threatening to spill over.

"Do you think I hold you back?" I asked without looking up.

"What are you talking about?"

"The shifter, while it was downloading your thoughts and memories it said that I held you back from what you really want to do with every chick we run into, like Rebecca"

"Come on seriously!" Dean yelled making me turn. "Of course not, yeah I look and have thoughts but that doesn't mean that I'm ever gonna cheat on you Eve, you know that" I looked back down at my hands feeling a single tear spill over so he reached over and turned my face wiping his thumb catching it as he cupped my cheek. "I love you Evelyn Singer and there ain't nothing that's gonna change that, so don't you dare think I'd ever want to leave you for anyone, you got that?" I sighed nodding my head but didn't know if I fully believed him. "There's something else too?" I sighed again.

"Do you think that if we weren't hunters and could've actually grown up…normal that we'd have ever actually gotten together?" I replied then thought about it more and if we'd both grown up normal we'd have never met because my their Dad wouldn't have gotten into hunting, Mary would still be alive and my John wouldn't have come for my Dad's knowledge on the supernatural. "Or even met actually?"

"Does it matter?" I frowned looking up at him. "I don't care what led me to you, I'm just glad it did because none of this life would be worth it if I didn't have you, you make this life livable Eve and you keep me fighting everyday" he pulled me until I was straddling his waist. "You and Sam are the only ones I care about so get that thought out of your pretty little head okay, I ain't going anywhere and I ain't letting you go" I smiled blushing as I tucked my hair out of the way and leaned in pressing my lips to his.

His arms wrapped around me pulling me flush up against him and I let out a small moan when I felt him coming to attention underneath me and he used that to slip his tongue into my mouth tangling it with mine in a passionate dance before we had to break apart from air.

"This is the Dean Winchester I know and love" I mumbled against his lips and he pulled back to stare at me confused and I realised I didn't tell him that the shifter had kissed me.

"What?" he asked then he must have realised the meaning behind my words because his eyes widened in anger. "That son of a bitch, he kissed you!"

"Only once and I pulled back straight away, I knew something wasn't right" I defended myself thinking he'd be angry at me.

"Oh I'm gonna kill him, first he takes my face then kisses my girl" I smiled even if it wasn't that funny but his little rant was downright adorable.

"Dean shh" I put my finger over his lips stopping any other words that were about to explode out of his mouth. "I love you and wasn't fooled by him for a second because of it, I know you better than you know yourself and that's what make us a great pair" I wound my hands through his hair massaging his scalp. "And trust me we'll gank the son of a bitch together"

"Oh I love it when you say stuff like that, makes you all the more sexier" I laughed moving into kiss him again but he stopped pulling me back. "We need to take care of this shifter though, I know Sam said to wait but I hate the thought of what else he's doing out there and I want my damn necklace back" I looked down for the first time noticing he didn't have it on and realized that the shifter had it on the last time I saw him along with his mother's ring which he never took off.

"Oh it's on" he smiled cupping my cheek bringing me into short but no less passionate kiss before we got out and did a quick but thorough inventory check of the weapons before loading up guns with silver bullets.

"I'm sorry Sam, you know us we just can't wait" I smiled over at Dean clipping my round into the gun as he closed the boot before we headed back into town heading to the sewers descending down the rusty metal stairs into the sewer and started following the tunnels again with Dean leading and me right behind him since if I so much as fell behind a step he'd stop and make sure I was still there.

We found our way back to his lair and saw fresh remnants of him changing skins so Dean and I shared a look since that meant he could literally be anyone again which made our job that little bit harder but as we walked further in we stopped seeing a figure underneath a tarp just like it'd done with us so we walked over to and Dean pulled the sheet away and we saw Rebecca.

"Becca?" Dean and I asked in disbelief then shared a look before he started to untie her.

"What happened?" I asked her.

"I was walking home and everything just went white, someone hit me over the head and I wound up in here just in time to see that thing turn into me" she sobbed then looked up at us. "I mean how is that even possible?"

"Okay, okay, it's okay" Dean replied placating her before she started panicking. "Come on, can you walk?" she nodded. "Okay we gotta hurry, Sam went to see you" we quickly made our way out of the sewers again and headed straight for her place.

Sam's POV

I groaned as I was once again tied up by the what I now knew to be the shifter instead of Becky wearing Dean's face again as he secured the rope around my wrists before he walked past me into the kitchen obviously looking for a weapon to use.

"What are you going to do to me?"

"I'm not going to do anything, Dean will though" it replied opening a draw before closing it.

"They'll never catch him or Evelyn" I replied laughing a little, cause he was an idiot if he thought either of them would go quietly especially without the other, I knew they loved each other more than anything.

"Oh it doesn't matter" it replied. "Murder in the first of his own brother, he'll be hunted the rest of his life and Evelyn well she'll either stupidly go down with him for aid and abetting or she'll dump his ass and find an actual man that'll treat her with the respect a woman of her features deserves" I glared at him for talking about Eve like that because she was practically my sister and saw him turn to the benchtop behind him and picked up a kitchen knife holding it up.

Evie's POV

We finally made it to Rebecca's after what seemed like forever and jumped out of the Impala running in following the sounds of a struggle and saw the shifter as Dean again on top of Sam with his hands around his throat choking the life out of him.

"Hey!" we yelled getting its attention and it jumped off Sam standing up staring at us as we stared back at us from behind our guns.

"It's yours Dean" I spoke up knowing this was Dean's revenge and he didn't waste any time firing two shots off both hitting the shifter in the heart.

"Sam?" Rebecca ran in behind us and went over to Sam as Dean and I walked over to the shifter to make sure it was dead and when we saw no breath or rise of its chest Dean reached over and grabbed his necklace yanking it off its body and held it up, I knew just what that necklace meant to him and he never takes it off.

"Can't have this either bitch" I smirked grabbing his mother's ring then held it out to Dean who smiled and took it off me sliding it back down onto his right ring finger before Dean and I headed outside to the Impala hiding while the cops came and went through everything the Idjits do before we returned and Sam told Rebecca everything while Dean and I waited outside. "Where to next?" I asked as Dean spread out a map on the hood.

"We probably should lay low for a bit, the cops here might think I'm dead but if anyone else recognizes me, we'll be stuck on other sides of a window only seeing each other once in a while"

"I ain't gonna let that happen" I smiled rubbing his shoulders. "We'll get through this just like we get through everything else" I added just as Sam finally came out, they shared a quick hug and Rebecca waved us so we waved back before she went inside closing the door and Sam finally walked towards us.

"So what about your friend Zach?" Dean asked him.

"Cops are blaming this Dean Winchester guy for Emily's murder, they found the murder weapon in the guy's lair, Zach's clothes stained with her blood, now they're thinking maybe the surveillance tape was tampered with, yeah Becca said Zach will be released soon" Sam smirked and I rolled my eyes as we climbed into the Impala and hit the wide open road again.

"Sorry man" Dean suddenly apologized after a few minutes and Sam and I both turned shocked that he'd actually apologized.

"About what?" Sam asked him.

"I really wish things could be different, you know I wish you could just be…Joe College"

"Nah it's okay" Sam passed it off. "You know truth is, even at Stanford deep down I never really fit in"

"Well that's because you're a freak" Dean replied and I swatted the back of his head.

"Yeah thanks" Sam replied smiling as I lent forwards.

"In retrospect we're all freaks and we're with each other all the way" I replied and Sam chuckled nodding his head.

"Yeah I know you's are" I smiled at his reply and rested my chin on my arms as I rested them on the front seat smiling at my boys, Dean's right none of this life is worth it without them in it.

"You know I gotta say, I'm sorry I'm gonna miss it" Dean suddenly spoke up and we turned confused.

"Miss what?" Sam and I asked him at the same time.

"How many chances am I gonna have to see my own funeral?" he replied and I rolled my eyes at him but couldn't help the smile, he was nuts but I loved him anyway and if not I loved him more for his comments like that.

A/N: Honestly one of my favourite episodes and had a lot of fun writing it so I hope you like it too :)