SHADOW

Dean's POV

I pulled the Impala up to the sidewalk parking and got out chancing a look at the back seat where Evie was currently passed out looking every bit the angel she was making me smile before heading towards the boot to grab the tool box ignoring the itchiness of this costume Sam was making me wear.

"All right Dean, this is the place" I closed the boot seeing Sam had gotten out looking back at Eve as well. "Should we wake her?" I looked back down at Eve and knew she hadn't been sleeping very well lately so I shook my head.

"Nah let her sleep, it'll only take us a sec" he seemed like he wanted to argue but didn't and we started towards the victim's apartment building. "You know I gotta say Dad, Eve and I did just fine without these stupid costumes, I feel like a high school drama dork" I added smiling back at him as he laughed. "What was that play that you did, that…what was it…Our Town…yeah you were good, it was cute"

"Look you wanna pull this off or not?" he asked me.

"I'm just saying these outfits cost hard-earned money, okay?"

"Whose?" he asked.

"Ours, you think credit card fraud's easy?" I spat back and he shook his head as we went inside and with almost no real hard convincing the lady that owned the building let us into the victims apartment.

"Thanks for letting us look around" Sam said after she opened the door.

"Well police said they were done with the place, so…" she trailed off and when I looked at the door I saw the broken chain before turning and looked around at the blood splatters on just about every surface in the main room. "You guys said you're with the alarm company?"

"That's right" I replied looking around.

"Well no offence but your alarms about as useful as boobs on a man" she replied and I looked back at Sam as he smiled.

"Well that's why we're here to see what went wrong, stop it from happening again"

"Now ma'am you found the body?" Sam asked her.

"Yeah" she nodded.

"Right after it happened?"

"No, few days later Meredith's work called she hadn't shown up, I knocked on her door, that's when I noticed the smell" she trailed off.

"Any windows open, any sign of a break-in?" I asked checking the windows.

"No windows were locked, front door was bolted, chain was on the door we had to cut it just to get in"

"And the alarm was still on?"

"Like I said bang-up job your company's doing" she replied.

"Mm-hmm, you see any overturned furniture, broken glass, struggle?"

"Everything was in perfect condition" she replied and I looked down at the blood stains. "Except Meredith"

"And what condition was Meredith in?" Sam asked turning from the window.

"Meredith was all over in pieces, the guy who killed her must have been some kind of a whack job but I'll tell you if I didn't know any better I'd have said a wild animal did it" the woman replied and I turned to Sam with the same look.

"Ma'am you mind if we take some time, give this place a once-over?" Sam asked turning back to her.

"Go right ahead, knock yourself out" she replied then left leaving us alone so I quickly got to work grabbing out the EMF detector from the tool box because I didn't want to be away from Evie any longer than necessary since she was having nightmares and had been waking up in tears almost every night so I didn't want her waking up without us there and had no idea just how long she was gonna stay awake.

"So the killer walks in and out of the apartment, no weapons, no prints, nothing"

"I'm telling you, the minute I found that article I knew this was our kind of gig" Sam added right as the EMF buzzed with a positive reading.

"I think I agree with you" we stood up.

"You say you talked to the cops?"

"Uh…yeah I spoke to Amy, a charming perky officer of the law"

"Yeah what did you find out?"

"Well she's a Sagittarius, she loves tequila…I mean…oh and she's got this little tattoo right-" I replied completely joking but it was fun especially when Evie's not around to hit me or glare at me with those blue eyes that just instantly make me feel guilty.

"Dean!" Sam snapped.

"What?" I asked turning to him. "Yeah uh nothing we don't already know except for one thing they're keeping out of the papers, Meredith's heart was missing" I added and he turned towards me with a dumbfounded look.

"Her heart?"

"Yeah, her heart"

"So what do you think did it to her?" he asked.

"The landlady said it looked like an animal attack, maybe it was…werewolf" I supplied walking towards him.

"No not a werewolf the lunar cycles not right, plus if it was a creature it would've left some kind of trace, it's probably a spirit" Sam replied just as I looked down at the blood stains and swear they almost formed a pattern of some kind.

"See if you can find any masking tape around" I spoke up and when we did find some tape I started joining the blood stains up using the tape before stepping back reveling I'd been right, it was a symbol.

"Ever see that symbol before?"

"Never" I replied.

"Me either" he added before snapping a photo for later if need be before we packed up cleaning up and left with Sam thanking the landlady as we did and we walked over to Baby but my mind went into hyperdrive when I didn't seen Eve in the back seat.

"Evie?" I looked around not seeing her anywhere.

Evie's POV

I'd woken up with a jolt startled out of another nightmare practically feeling those hillbillies hands on me again but when I looked around I noticed I was safe in Baby but neither Sam or Dean were here which instantly had me panicking until I saw the newspaper on the front seat and looked up seeing we'd arrived at the place where Sam found our next case which calmed me down a bit.

They were probably inside working the case and Dean had told Sam to leave me behind to sleep since I knew he'd noticed my strange and unnatural behavior lately after the last hunt but every time I closed my eyes I was back with those assholes getting…raped and every time they got further than they actually had.

I sighed rubbing my hands over my eyes still feeling the exhaustion and effects of my nightmare and looked up seeing a sign across the street for a café and got out quickly walking across the busy road into the café ordering myself a tall black coffee in hopes to keep me awake and grabbed a box of doughnuts for the boys since I doubted they'd stopped to eat yet, I grabbed the box and my coffee heading back towards the Impala seeing Sam and Dean just walking towards it and watched Dean look straight into the back for me visibly looking panicked given I wasn't there.

"Evie?" he spun frantically around so I walked faster.

"How'd it go?" I asked walking up casually and Dean spun around relaxing with a heavy sigh. "So you's find anything?"

"Don't do that" Dean spat instead of answering and I rolled my eyes setting the box of doughnuts on the hood opening up the box grabbing one out.

"Guess you should've woken me up then huh" I replied and got an eye roll in response from Dean then turned to Sam knowing he'd at least treat me like I wasn't weak since he had to understand what I was going through given his nightmares kept him awake just like mine were. "So, any idea what we're dealing with sasquatch" he rolled his eyes at the use of my nickname.

"Nope, not yet pipsqueak" I smiled stuffing the doughnut in my mouth with a sip of my coffee.

"Well then we got work to do boys" I closed the box since they hadn't even looked at them and hopped in the Impala with them following and Dean drove to the bar Meredith worked at and Dean got to work charming the female bartenders for information while I watched from afar rolling my eyes as his flirting.

"Hey nice legs-"

"If you say 'what time do they open' I'll punch you in the throat" I said cutting off the guy who'd just approached me and he smirked undeterred.

"No dice huh?"

"Not in your life time, now move along cause I ain't interested" I spat and he shrugged moving along before my eyes fell back over at Dean as he was looking straight at me with a look, I rolled my eyes since it's alright for me to watch him flirt but god forbid a guy approaches me and he's allowed to be a jealous boyfriend so I looked away and saw Sam come back in after getting their Dad's journal from the Impala so I grabbed my beer heading over to him at the same time Dean left his bitch walking over as well.

"Talked to the bartender" Dean said straight away taking the seat across from Sam as I sat down next to them.

"You get anything?" Sam asked him and I scoffed.

"Besides her number?" I added looking down at my nails seeming disinterested.

"Eve, I'm a professional, I'm offended that you would think that" he replied as I looked up and he smiled finally admitting it holding up a napkin with a phone number on it, I grabbed it scrunched it up and threw it at his head.

"You mind doing a little more thinking with your upstairs brain, Dean?" I spat glaring at him and he sighed.

"I'll show you my downstairs brain if you want Shortstack" he replied but I just stared back at him unamused so he rolled his eyes. "There's nothing to find out Meredith worked here, she waited tables everyone here was her friend, they all say she's normal she didn't do or say anything weird before she died, so…" he shrugged as he turned to Sam. "What about that symbol, anything?" they'd shown me the symbol but I hadn't seen it either.

"Nope nothing, it wasn't in Dad's journal or any of the usual books, so I'll just have to dig a little deeper I guess" Sam replied looking around the bar.

"Well there was a first victim right, before Meredith?" Dean asked him.

"Right yeah, his name was…his name was Ben Swardstrom, last month he was found mutilated in his townhouse, same deal the door was locked, the alarm on"

"Is there any connection between them?" I asked looking up at Sam.

"Nothing I can tell I mean not yet at least, Ben was a banker, Meredith was a waitress they never met, never knew anyone in common, they were practically from different worlds"

"So to recap, the only successful intel we've scored so far is the bartender's phone number" I rolled my eyes at Dean since he was not taking any of this seriously but Sam suddenly fixated on something across the bar.

"What?" Dean and I asked him at the same time but he didn't answer and stood up walking away from us and Dean turned to me confused but I shrugged having no idea what that was just about so we got up and followed him seeing him talking to a short-haired blonde girl.

"…you were going to California" we heard Sam say as we approached.

"Oh I did, I came, I saw, I conquered, oh and I met what's-his-name, something Michael Murray at a bar"

"Who?" Sam asked her and I rolled my eyes.

"It doesn't matter, anyway the whole scene got old so I'm living here for a while" she replied and Dean took that moment to clear his throat.

"You're from Chicago?" Sam asked ignoring Dean's attempt to get his attention.

"No Massachusetts, Andover" she replied then smiled even wider. "Gosh Sam, what are the odds we'd run into each other?" I frowned since the odds weren't good in our line of work and something about this girl just seemed off to me, I didn't know what.

"Yeah I know, I thought I'd never see you again"

"Well I'm glad you were wrong" she replied and Dean coughed a bit louder this time. "Dude, cover your mouth" the girl said as I glared at her.

"Yeah I'm sorry Meg" Sam said and I raised an eye finally knowing this girls name. "This is um…this is my brother Dean and his girlfriend Evelyn"

"This is Dean and Evelyn?" she asked making me frown that not only did we not know who this was or how Sam knew her but she knew us.

"Yeah" Sam nodded.

"So you've heard of me?" Dean asked her with a smile.

"Oh yeah, I've heard of you" Meg replied looking at him. "Nice, the way you treat your brother like luggage" she said and I glared since that was uncalled for and untrue.

"Sorry?"

"Why don't you let him do what he wants to do, stop dragging him around God's green earth"

"Meg, it's alright" Sam cut in stopping her just as I clenched my fist.

"Okay awkward, I'm gonna get a drink now, coming Shortstack?" I nodded taking his hand and we approached the bar.

"I don't like her" I whispered to him. "Something just doesn't scream right about any of this"

"Yeah I know" he waved down the bartender as we looked back over at them and Sam had his phone out obviously taking down her number and there was a lot of smiling before Sam walked away so Dean and I quickly downed the tequila shots the bartender had poured and we quickly caught up with him.

"Who the hell was she?" Dean asked him as soon as we walked out of the bar.

"I don't really know" Sam replied making my frown deepen, not at all happy with this situation. "I only met up with her once, meeting up with her again…I don't know, it's weird" I raised an eye surprised Sam was thinking almost the same thing I was.

"Well what was she saying, I treat you like luggage?" Dean asked swinging his arm over my shoulders as we walked. "What were you bitching about me with some chick?"

"Look I'm sorry Dean it was when we had that huge fight when I was in that bus stop in Indiana but that's not important just listen-"

"Well was there any truth to what she was saying, are we keeping you against your will?" Dean asked sounding like he was getting angry.

"No of course not!" Sam replied instantly. "Now would you listen"

"What?" Dean asked taking his arm off and spun to Sam.

"I think there's something strange going on here Dean"

"Yeah tell me about it, she wasn't even that into me" I rolled my eyes.

"No I mean our kind of strange, like maybe even a lead" Sam replied making me look up raising an eye. "I met Meg weeks ago literally on the side of the road now I run into her in some random Chicago bar, I mean the same bar where a waitress was slaughtered by something supernatural, you don't think that's a little weird"

"I don't know, random coincidence it happens" Dean shrugged it off.

"Well yeah it happens but not to us, look I could be wrong but I'm just saying there's something about this girl that I can't quite put my finger on"

"I bet you'd like to" was Dean's reply and I rolled my eyes again.

"Honestly Dean, I think Sam's right that this doesn't seem right"

"Maybe she's not a suspect, maybe Sammy's just got a thing for her and maybe he's thinking a little too much with his upstairs brain" Dean smirked.

"Do me a favor, check and see if there's really a Meg Masters from Andover, Massachusetts and see if you guys can dig anything up on that symbol on Meredith's floor"

"What are you gonna do?" I asked looking at Sam.

"I'm gonna watch Meg" Sam replied and I rolled my eyes seeing Dean's smirk straight away.

"Yeah you are!"

"I just want to see what's, what, better safe than sorry" Sam protested straight away.

"Alright you little pervert" Dean remarked.

"Dude" Sam exclaimed.

"We're going, we're going" Dean said grabbing my hand and we walked leaving him to take the Impala as we walked back to the motel we were staying at and luckily it wasn't that far of a walk.

Once we got in I went straight towards Sam's laptop which was on the table intending to get started on research but felt hands grab my waist and begin pushing me back towards one of the beds as Dean's lips found their way against mine.

"Dean what…we have to focus"

"I am" he replied with his familiar sexy panty-dropping smile. "We have a few minutes and for once don't have Sam breathing down our necks" I sighed knowing this was irresponsible and if John was here and knew about us he'd surely kick our asses but I gave in.

Seeing the hesitation leave my eyes Dean smirked again grabbing my leather jacket throwing it over my shoulders following quickly with my t-shirt leaving me just in a bra making me feel to exposed so I grabbed the plaid overshirt off his shoulders as we kissed backing up until my knees hit the end of the bed so I was forced to lay back with Dean settling his weight evenly over me.

"This is so irresponsible of us" he laughed reaching around for my bra clasp.

"Yeah but it's fun Shortstack" I rolled my eyes but reached down for his jeans. "Hey, hey there's no rush"

"Yeah there is" I replied managing to undo the button and fly before he grabbed my hands securing them beside my head holding them there.

"Nope, I'm planning on taking my time with you" I raised an eye in question but it was thrown out the window when he started going down on me after removing my pants and I couldn't help the screams of pleasure.

One thing that could be sure about Dean is he was never dull in bed, not that I'd had any experience aside from Dean but he never sought gratification himself until he was sure I was well spent and that's one of the things I loved about him but my favourite moments were always the aftermath when I was laying against him as his hand brushed through my hair playing with the tips almost nulling me to sleep but pushed that away since I knew we had to start researching so I sat up reaching over the side of the bed for my shirt pulling it on.

"Where are you going?"

"To work" I pulled on underwear and pants hearing him groan before he too got up and pulled his clothes on before we got to work with me on the laptop searching up Meg while he got on the phone to Caleb to see if he knew anything about the symbol they'd found in the dead girls apartment.

"Anything?" he asked after hanging up with Caleb.

"Yeah" I replied frowning as I stared at the computer. "Sam's probably not going to like it" I spun the laptop towards him and he looked over all the info I'd found on Meg and the fact that there was a Meg Masters in Andover, Massachusetts. "What about you, did Caleb know anything about the symbol?"

"Yeah, I'm gonna call Sam" I nodded turning the laptop back towards me as he dialed Sam's number pressing it to his ear. "Let me guess, your lurking outside that poor girls apartment arent you?" Dean asked and I snickered just imagining Sam's reply especially as Dean's smirk grew. "You got a funny way of showing your affection" I laughed again shaking my head at Dean since he was one to talk about showing affection. "She checks out, there is a Meg Masters in the phone book, Evie even pulled up her high school photo, now why don't you go knock on her door and uh…invite her to a poetry reading or whatever it is you do?"

"Give it up Dean" I sang seeing his smirk just growing with every passing minute that he was teasing his brother.

"Yeah that I did have some luck with" Dean replied answering whatever Sam had asked him and he grabbed his journal in front of him looking down at the drawn symbol. "It's…turns out its Zoroastrian, very, very old school like 200 years before Christ, it's a sigil for a Daeva"

"What the hell is a Daeva?" I asked looking up and Sam must have asked the same question cause Dean rolled his eyes.

"Translates to 'demon of darkness' Zoroastrian demons and they're savage, animalistic you know nasty attitudes, kind of like demonic pit bulls" I raised an eye since that sounded fun…not. "Give me some credit man, you don't have a corner on paper chasin' around here" Dean reacted to something Sam said and I practically knew what it was so I grabbed the phone.

"He called Caleb, he told him" Sam chuckled.

"Sounds about right" Sam replied just before Dean grabbed his phone back off me.

"Here's the thing, these Daeva's…they have to be summoned, conjured…yeah that's what I'm saying and from what I gather, it's pretty risky business too…these suckers tend to bite the hand that feeds them and the arms and the torsos" I frowned since that made this even worse. "Well nobody knows, nobody's seen them for a couple millennia, summoning a demon that ancient someone really knows their stuff, I think we got a major player in town, now why don't you go give that girl a private stripper-o-gram…oh bite her" I rolled my eyes but was unable to hold in the small chuckle. "Don't leave teeth marks just enough to where…Sam…you-" he snapped the phone shut. "He hung up" I scoffed.

"What did you expect?" I asked without looking up from the computer as I continued to look for information on Meg. "Something still doesn't seem right" I whispered to myself looking through Meg's school year book again looking for any other mention.

"Let it go, she checked out Sam's just being paranoid as usual…now that Sammy is still out why don't we…" he shut the laptop in my face.

"Hey!" I protested loudly but he was standing up pulling me up to my feet. "Seriously"

"Sam's out which means we get to play, we figured out the info we needed" I rolled my eyes but smiled letting him lead me back over towards the bed falling down onto it in a heap of tangled limbs as we laughed following up with what Dean and I do best.

It was a little later I was in the middle of pulling my clothes back on after having a shower having needed one after Dean and went another few rounds of fun sweaty passionate love-making while Dean had surprisingly gotten back to looking into the case having had his sexual needs stated again…at least for now and right as I pulled my shirt over my bra the door to our motel room opened and I turned seeing Sam walk in looking frantically around before his eyes fell onto Dean.

"Dude, I gotta talk to you" they spat out at exactly the same time making me laugh rolling my eyes and both brothers raised their eyebrows at the other before Sam dived in telling us everything he'd seen when he followed Meg into an abandoned warehouse.

"So hot little Meg is summoning the Daeva?" Dean asked to clarify and Sam nodded.

"Looks like she was using that black altar to control the thing"

"So Sammy's got a thing for the bad girl" Dean practically said to himself but wanted it to be heard.

"What's the deal with that bowl again?" I asked cutting in needing more info on that part of Sam's story.

"She was talking into it, the way witches use to scry into crystal balls or animal entrails, she was communicating with someone" Sam explained again but it still didn't make any sense to me.

"With the Daeva?" I theorized aloud.

"No you guys said those things were savages, no this was someone different…someone's who's giving her orders…someone who's coming to that warehouse" Sam replied talking more to himself just as Dean looked over at the table towards his notes making me raise an eye as he quickly walked towards them on a mission taking a seat in one of the chairs.

"What?" I asked intrigued walking over to him as he flipped open one of the case files then looked up at Sam and I.

"Holy crap" he said making me raise an eye.

"What?" Sam and I both asked him this time.

"What I was gonna tell you earlier, I…uh pulled a favor with my friend…Amy over at the police department while Evie was in the shower" I rolled my eyes since Sam didn't exactly need to know that last part. "The complete records of our two victims, we missed something the first time" I frowned since it was a rare occurrence for me and Sam to miss something crucial to a case so we walked forward both intrigued. "The uh…first victim, the old man he spent his whole life in Chicago but he wasn't born here, look where he was born" Dean added pointing down at the file and I looked seeing the guy's birthplace and frowned reading it over twice to make sure I'd read it right.

"Lawrence, Kansas" Sam spoke up when I hesitated over my words looking up at Dean in shock.

"And Meredith the second victim, turns out she was adopted, guess where she's from" I frowned down at her birthplace to 'Lawrence, Kansas'

"Holy crap" Sam repeated taking a seat in the chair across from Dean.

"Yeah" Dean replied rubbing his hand over his mouth.

"I mean it is where the demon killed Mom, its where everything started" I frowned taking a seat on Dean's lap and he settled his hands on my waist holding me there. "So you think Meg's tied up with the demon?" he added looking over at us.

"I think it's a definite possibility"

"But I don't understand what's the significance of Lawrence and how do these Daeva things fit in?"

"Beats me" Dean replied shaking his head. "But I say we trash that black altar, grab Meg and have ourselves a friendly interrogation"

"No we can't" Sam argued and I looked up surprised. "We shouldn't tip her off, we gotta stake out that warehouse…we gotta see who or what is showing up to meet her"

"I'll tell you one thing" Dean spoke up and I felt his hands tense on my waist warning me this wasn't gonna be an easy thing already whatever he was about to say. "I don't think we should do this alone" I frowned knowing exactly what he meant by that so I got up when Sam walked out to gather the firepower we were gonna need just in case and Dean grabbed his phone dialing the number familiar to us all. "…we think we got a serious lead on the thing that killed Mom so uh…this warehouse, it's 1435 West Erie…Dad if you get this get to Chicago as soon as you can" I heard Dean say before snapping his phone shut.

"Voicemail?" Sam asked having come back in during that.

"Yeah" Dean replied just as Sam threw the duffel bag onto the bed making a loud racket. "Geez, what'd you get?"

"Huh…I ransacked that trunk, holy water, every weapon that I couldn't think of, exorcism rituals from about half-dozen religions" Sam replied pointing as Dean picked up the said things. "I'm not sure what to expect so I guess we should just expect everything, huh?" Dean looked up with a solid nod before grabbing his sawn-off shotgun opening the barrel checking it before holding his hand up to catch the ammo I threw his way as I loaded my own weapon.

"Big night" I looked up frowning at Dean since we had no idea what was gonna come after tonight, if this was the thing that killed their Mom and we managed to kill it thus getting the revenge they'd spent their whole lives trying to achieve then what came after, would we continue to hunt together, would Sam leave again…I had no idea since I didn't know anything different.

"Nervous?" I heard Sam ask and when I looked up he was looking back and forth between Dean and I.

"No…no, are you?" Dean replied looking up at Sam.

"No, no way" Sam replied back then they both turned to me.

"Course not" I smiled but knew by Dean's look that he'd seen straight through it so I quickly looked down busying myself back with my task of loading all the guns in prep.

"God can you imagine if we actually found that damn thing…that demon?" Sam suddenly spoke up making my frown deepen just as fraction.

"Let's not get ahead of ourselves" Dean replied.

"I know…I'm just saying, what if we did it?" Sam asked, asking the question I wasn't sure I wanted the answer to. "What if this whole thing was over tonight?" he added with a smile. "Man, I'd sleep for a month…go back to school" I looked up in shock and a small amount of disappointment of the thought of being without Sam again. "Just be a person again"

"You wanna go back to school?" Dean asked him.

"Yeah, once were done hunting the thing" Sam replied and Dean scoffed throwing down the gun he'd been loading onto the bed moving onto the next weapon. "Why is there something wrong with that?" he added looking up at Dean.

"No, no its great…good for you" Dean replied but I could see straight through it just like he could see through me, we knew each other better than we knew ourselves.

"I mean what are you gonna do once it's all over, both of you?" Sam asked adding the last bit as he looked down at me.

"It's never gonna be over" Dean said before I could say anything. "There's gonna be others, there's always gonna be something to hunt"

"But there's got to be something you want for yourselves, kids maybe?" I frowned looking up at Sam vision clouding with tears knowing that is never gonna be my future, not with Dean anyway and I wasn't ever gonna leave him so knew that kids just wasn't in the cards.

"Yeah I don't want you to leave the second this things over, Sam!" Dean snapped masking up the vulnerability that I could hear in his voice, Sam suggesting kids struck at him.

"Dude, what's you problem?" Sam snapped back as Dean chuckled to himself grabbing a hold of the dresser in front of him.

"Why do you think I drag you everywhere, why I drag Eve everywhere?" Dean asked making me frown. "Why do you think I came and got you at Stanford?" I sat down on the bed sighing knowing this could get ugly.

"Because Dad was in trouble" Sam shrugged having believed that was why we had got him but it wasn't the case and even I knew it. "Cause you wanted to find the thing that killed Mom"

"Yes that!" Dean exclaimed looking away again hiding his pain. "But it's more than that man" he added taking a deep breath then turned back towards Sam looking him straight in the eyes. "You, me, Eve and Dad, I mean I want us to be together again, I want us to be a family again" my eyes snapped up towards Dean in shock, he'd never openly put me in the same sentence as the word family and it made me question what he meant by it.

"Dean we are a family" Sam replied sincerely. "All of us" he added smiling over at me. "I'd do anything, for either of you but things will never be the way they were before"

"Could be" Dean argued but I even I knew that it couldn't, things change and that's life.

"I don't want them to be" Sam replied then managed a small smile. "I'm not gonna live this life forever, Dean when this is all over you're gonna have to let me go my own way" Sam added and I saw Dean drop his eyes to the floor before quickly looking up with a hard frown and I knew I was in for a hard act of persuasion if this all ends tonight to help Dean come to terms with letting Sam go.

When we arrived at the warehouse Sam lead us towards an old elevator shaft and told us that we had to climb which clearly I wanted to protest since I didn't fancy climbing and possibly dying from slipping and breaking my neck but climbed up anyway since I wasn't leaving it up to them and when we reached the top we saw Meg standing at her black altar muttering something, Dean nodded for Sam to keep going through the small gap in the elevator chain door so Sam moved across climbing out of the shaft so I followed and Dean was right behind me handing Sam a gun.

We quickly crept around the crates with Sam keeping the gun pointed at Meg the entire time as we knelt down and Dean grabbed out his shotgun from the duffel bag then handed me my favorite pistol.

"Guys" Meg suddenly said making us all raise eyebrows and share looks. "Hiding's a little bit childish don't you think?"

"Well that didn't won't out like I planned" Dean said as Meg turned.

"Why don't you come out" Meg said so we stood up since there was no point hiding and trained our guns on her, especially Sam who now had one of the shotguns, Dean had his usual sawn-off and I had my pistol as Meg walked towards us with a smile.

"Sam…I have to say, this puts a real crimp in our relationship"

"Yeah tell me about it" Sam spat back at her from over the gun.

"So…" Dean cut in and Meg turned to him. "Where's you little Daeva friend?"

"Around" she replied making my glare intensify. "You know that shotgun's not gonna do you much good"

"Well don't worry sweetheart, shotguns not for the demon" Dean replied the smirk never leaving his face.

"So who is it Meg, who's coming, who are you waiting for?" Sam asked cutting in.

"You" she replied and I dropped the gun ever so slightly since I came to the realization that it had been a trap especially when Sam was thrown down by an unseen force that had to be the Daeva and Dean was next and I watched him fly back landing on the crates unconscious.

"Dean!" I screamed just as I felt pain erupt up my left side as I was thrown down with my head smacking against the ground my vision clouding hearing Sam grunt in pain as scratches appeared on his cheek. "Sammy" I whispered feeling the dizziness getting the better and my head dropped to the ground as I slipped out of conscious.

I woke up feeling my hands tied behind my back as I slowly lifted my head seeing Dean and Sam in a similar position but Sam was still out cold and I met Dean's eyes sighing in relief that he was…for the most part okay.

"Hello Evelyn, welcome back" I heard Meg say forcing my eyes to leave Dean to look over seeing her sitting on a crate and I glared but before I had the chance to say anything Sam suddenly moved raising his head.

"Hey Sam" Dean said when Sam looked over at us. "Don't take this the wrong way but your girlfriend is a bitch" Meg looked on with amusement.

"This…the whole thing was a trap, running into you at the bar, following you here…hearing what you had to say, it was all a set up wasn't it?" Sam asked directing it at Meg ignoring Dean's remark. "And that the victims were from Lawrence?"

"Doesn't mean anything, it was just to draw you in"

"You killed those two people for nothing" Sam replied angrily.

"Baby, I've killed a lot more for a lot less" she said, the smile never leaving her face which was enough to make me sick.

"You caught us, good for you" I cut in glaring as she turned to me when I spoke. "It's Miller time, why don't you just kill us already?"

"Not very quick on the uptake are we, guess that's why Sam calls you Dean's bitch, the one who can't do, say or think anything with her boyfriends say so first" I frowned clenching my teeth. "This trap isn't for you's" she added and my frown changed to one of confusion.

"Dad" Sam suddenly said and Dean snapped his head over to him with a look of horror and understanding coming to the same conclusion. "It's a trap for Dad" he added as if needing to clarify and Dean looked back at Meg as she smiled.

"Oh sweetheart, you're dumber than you look because even if Dad was is town which he is not…he wouldn't walk into this, he's too good"

"He is pretty good, I'll give you that" she replied standing up walking towards Dean making me glare and struggle against my bindings. "But you see…" she kicked his legs kneeling in front of him. "…he has one weakness"

"What's that?" Dean asked raising an eyebrow with a smirk.

"You" she replied and I frowned knowing how true that was, if one thing was true it was that John loved his sons even if he didn't show it all the time. "He lets his guard down around his boys, lets his emotions cloud his judgements, I happen to know he is in town and he'll come and try to save you and then the Daevas will kill everybody…nice and slow and messy"

"Well I got news for you, its gonna take a lot more than some shadow to kill him" Dean spat back.

"Oh the Daevas are in the room here, they're invisible" I found my eyes looking around the room knowing it was stupid. "Their shadows are the only part you can see"

"Why are you doing this Meg?" Sam cut in and she looked over at him. "What kind of deal you got worked here, huh and with who?"

"I'm doing this for the same reasons you do what you do, loyalty…love, like the love you have for Mommy and Jess"

"Go to hell!" Sam replied breathing heavily through anger.

"Baby I'm already there" she replied crawling towards him and I furrowed my eyes trying to figure out what she meant by that…was she a demon. "Come on Sam, there's no need to be nasty" I looked away with a disgusted face as she straddled his lap. "I think we both know how you really feel about me…you know…I saw you watching me…changing in my apartment" I turned back with an even more disgusted face. "It turned you on, didn't it?"

"Get a room, you two" Dean and I spat out at the exact time.

"I didn't mind, I liked that you were watching me…come on Sammy you and I can still have a little dirty fun" I rolled my eyes but caught sight of Dean using his switch blade slowly moving it against his ropes to get free and frowned since why didn't I think of that, I had a blade too but stupidly realised it was in my boot, I really need to start carrying another one up my sleeve like Dean does.

"You wanna have fun, go ahead then" Sam replied as she kissed his neck enough to make me want to hurl. "I'm a little tied up right now" I rolled my eyes at Sam's horrible sense of humor but heard the metal clang and looked over seeing Dean had dropped his blade and Meg looked up at the sound too before getting off Sam walking towards Dean grabbing it and I frowned since there goes that plan as she threw it far away from him then smiled at Dean before going back over to Sam reassuming her place on his lap.

"Now were you just trying to distract me while your brother cuts free?"

"No" Sam replied shaking his head. "No, it was because I have a knife of my own" he replied moving swiftly grabbing Meg's shoulders before headbutting her forcing her to fall back as Sam groaning in pain since that would have hurt.

"Sam get the altar" I yelled knowing that it might just stop the Daevas.

Sam stood heading over to it and flipped the table over smashing everything and we saw the shadows of these things in the bright areas of the room move towards Meg then we watched as she was dragged towards the window screaming before being thrown out then Sam came back towards us grabbing his knife and quickly cut us lose, I stood up rubbing the rope burns on my wrists as we approached the window looking down at Meg's body lying motionless on the sidewalk.

"So I guess the Daevas didn't like being bossed around"

"I guess not" Dean replied putting his arm over my shoulder pulling me close as I touched my hand against his chest leaning my head against his shoulder. "Hey Sam?" he added and Sam looked over. "Next time you want to get laid…find a girl that's not so buckets of crazy, huh?" I managed a small chuckle before we left heading back to the motel for our stuff since it was best we get the hell out of town. "Why didn't you just leave that stuff in the car?" Dean asked Sam as we approached our room.

"I said it before and I'll say it again, 'better safe than sorry' " I smiled nodding at Sam as Dean stuck the key in the lock unlocking the door and swung it open before we stepped inside but immediately our eyes fell on a shadow standing by the window.

"Hey" Dean called out and whoever it was turned as Sam quickly flipped on the lights as they stepped out of the shadows and my eyes widened seeing John Winchester. "Dad?"

"Hey boys, Evelyn" he smiled at us taking steps away from the window and I got a look at him, he had a beard covering most of his face now but it actually suited him and he looked exhausted but none of that mattered, he was here and Dean wasted no time moving towards him and they hugged making me smile soon following to pull John into a hug of my own with a smile on my face when Dean let go. "Hi, Sam" he added when we let go and Sam had walked up looking shocked and dejected.

"Hey, Dad" Sam replied putting the bag in his hand down and I frowned when they didn't hug.

"Dad, it was a trap" Dean quickly said to ease the sudden tension in the room that came from John and Sam staring at each other. "I didn't know I'm sorry" I turned my frown on Dean since it wasn't his fault and he shouldn't be apologizing but it was just Dean seeking his dads approval.

"It's alright, I thought it might have been"

"Were you there?" Dean asked him.

"Yeah, I got there just in time to see the girl take the swan dive" John replied and the boys and I shared a look. "She was the bad guy, right?" he asked with a slight smile.

"Yes sir" Sam and Dean replied at the same time while I just nodded.

"Good" he replied still smiling which was enough to be starting to creep me out. "Well it doesn't surprise me, its tried to stop me before"

"The demon has?" Sam asked still in a wary voice and I understood given his past…troubles with seeing eye to eye with his Dad.

"It knows it's close, it knows I'm gonna kill it not just exorcise it or send it back to hell, actually kill it" John replied making me raise an eye since that wasn't possible, you can't kill a demon.

"How?" I asked to intrigued to keep quiet.

"I'm working on that Evie" he replied with a smile that I couldn't help smile back at especially since he called me 'Evie'.

"Well let us come with you, we'll help" Sam added but John shook his head.

"No Sam, not yet" he replied looking at Sam. "Listen try to understand…this demon is a scary son of a bitch, I don't want you in the crossfire, I don't want you hurt"

"Dad you don't have to worry about us" Sam argued but it was futile since John was a stubborn ass which is where is sons had gotten it from.

"Of course I do, I'm your father" John replied looking between Sam and Dean then his eyes fell to me. "And I promised yours that I'd keep you safe" my lips turned up in a small smile as he turned back to Sam. "Listen Sammy, last time we were together we had a hell of a fight"

"Yes sir" Sam replied and my smile dropped.

"It's good to see you again, it's been a long time"

"Too long" Sam agreed before they finally hugged and the smile came back to my face as Dean and I shared a look since it was about time they forgave each other and especially when I noticed that John had a lone tear falling down his cheek but my smile was gone as John was suddenly pulled back and slammed into the kitchen cabinets falling in a heap before Sam was struck.

"No!" I heard Dean yell as I was thrown backwards hitting my head once again against the wall looking up dazed for a second before screaming a blood curdling scream as I felt my torso being ripped open barely seeing Dean, Sam and John in the same positions as blood poured down my face from cuts on my forehead blinding me with the hot liquid.

"Shut your eyes!" Sam suddenly yelled. "These things are shadow demons, so let's light them up" he added throwing a lit flare down which filled the room with light sending the demons away but also filled the room with smoke which we all started coughing from as I fought to stand despite the pain because we had to get out of here.

"Dad" Dean called out since we could barely see through the smoke.

"Over here" John called back so I headed towards that barely finding the strength to stay on my feet staggering into a table knocking a lamp off.

"Eve!" I head Dean add calling out sounding anxious as always when we couldn't see each other in a crisis.

"Dean" I called moving further and finally spotted them through all the smoke, Dean was helping his Dad stand just as I found Sam and together we helped each other out the door and out of the building towards the Impala and John's truck.

"Alright come on, we don't have much time, soon as the flares out they'll be back" Sam said quickly throwing the weapon bag into the backseat.

"No wait, wait" Dean cut in. "Sam wait" he looked over at John. "Dad you can't come with us" my eyes widened in shock.

"What?" Sam asked loudly. "What are you talking about?"

"You guys, you're beat to hell" John argued surprising me even more that he didn't protest.

"We'll be alright" Dean replied clutching onto his side and I really wanted to check over his injuries but didn't want to be all 'worried girlfriend' in front of John, not that he'd probably get suspicious since I'd always fussed over Dean even when we weren't officially together but now was not the time to make him suspicious enough to call us out on feelings we'd suppressed around him.

"Dean, we should stick together we'll go after this demon together" Sam argued as I shook my head.

"Sam, listen to him" I cut in cutting him off and Sam turned to me angrily but I didn't care.

"We almost got Dad killed in there" Dean added when Sam didn't say anything. "Don't you understand, they're not going to stop they're gonna try again, they're gonna use us to get to him"

"Meg was right Sam, your Dad's vulnerable when he's with us" I added as Dean trailed off grunting in pain still holding his side.

"He's stronger without us around" Dean looked at John as he said this.

"Dad" Sam said turning to John too putting his hand on his shoulder as if to stop him from leaving. "No…after everything, after all the time we've spent looking for you…please…I gotta be apart of this fight"

"Sammy, this fight is just starting and we are all gonna have a part to play, for now you gotta trust me son" John replied grabbing a hold on Sam's arm which was on his shoulder. "Okay, you gotta let me go" Sam looked pissed but he nodded finally letting his hand drop and after a few more looks John started to walk away.

"Uncle John wait!" I called out rushing up and threw my arms around him again. "Be safe, those boys need you more than they'd like to admit" I felt him nod.

"I will Evelyn and just so you know, I'm happy for you two" I let go stepping back looking up in confusion but followed his eyeline towards Dean and realised what he was saying.

"I…we're…" I anxiously spat out trying to explain.

"It's okay Evie, I've known something was happening between that two of you long before you two properly did, take care of him and Sammy" he said with a smile so I smiled back because that was all I ever wanted to hear, that he didn't hate the idea of me being with Dean romantically.

"Yes sir" I replied and his smile widened before he cupped my cheeks and pressed a kiss to my forehead before I stepped backwards towards the boys and we watched as he walked all the way to his truck this time and opened the door looking back at us.

"Be careful, all of you" he said so quietly I almost didn't catch it before he was climbing into his truck and we slowly watched climbing into the Impala with Sam in the passenger seat, me in the back and Dean of course in the drivers seat while the truck disappeared before Dean finally started the car and drove in the complete opposite direction.

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