Alex Annie Alexis Ann Part 1

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

The Impala pulled up to Jody's cruiser and stepped out into the rain. Angela unbuckled Grace from her car seat.

"You three are a sight." Jody smiled at the three hunters.

"Hey, Jody." Angela greeted.

Jody immediately took Grace from Angela's arms. "She's getting so big!"

"I know." Sam chuckled. "She'll be a year old in a few weeks."

"Wow. Time just flies by." Jody murmured. "How have you guys been?"

"Peachy." Angela shrugged.

"Touch and go," Sam said at the same time.

Jody looked between the couple. "I know the feeling."

"So, what you got for us?" Dean questioned.

Jody handed Grace back to Angela before opening up the trunk of her cruiser. The dead vampire's body was inside next to his head. Sam quickly looked around and then bent down and pressed a finger to the gum of the vampire, causing a fang to push out.

"Yeah, uh, that's a vamp, alright," Sam muttered.

"I don't know, guys," Dean smirked. "Looks like Jody might not need our help anymore."

"Oh, they grow up too fast." Sam teased lightly.

"Don't they?" Angela agreed, a small smile on her face.

"Yeah, joke all you want." Jody rolled her eyes. "There's more where this came from."

"More?" Dean raised his brows.

"My men brought in a runaway last night. There's no I.D. on her—nothing on her, actually, except for a bus ticket out of Nebraska." Jody explained. "Total Jane Doe. She won't even give me her name. Girl's basically feral. She's got zero manners, didn't even thank me for saving her." She added. "Anyhow, this thing went to plenty of trouble to get at her. And to hear him tell it, the 'others' will want her at least as bad as he did."

"Sounds like a nest," Angela noted.

"Yeah." Sam and Dean agreed.

"Nest?" Jody's eyes widened. "I'm guessing that's not half as cute and cozy as it sounds."

"Oh, I'm afraid not," Dean replied.

~/~\~

In the interrogation room, Sam was performing a dental I.D. on the girl while Dean and Angela looked on. When he finished, Sam stepped behind her and shook his head at Dean and Angela in answer to their unspoken question.

"Wilson, Fisher, and Joyner?" the girl glared. "You three are FBI, then I'm Taylor Swift. That wasn't a dental I.D. It was a fang check. You're hunters."

"And you're alive because, uh, hunters trained the sheriff." Dean retorted. "I think the first words out of your mouth should be a thank you. So, who are you to this vamp, anyway? Hmm?" he hummed. "What's so special about you? Is there a nest?"

As Dean was asking the questions, Sam noticed some scars on the girl's neck. He went to look closer but she noticed him watching and shrugged her shirt collar higher to cover them. Suddenly, Jody opened the door and popped her head in.

"Sorry to interrupt." She started. "We got a match on her DNA."

~/~\~

The three hunters stood in the hall with Jody.

"Annie Jones. Reported abducted outside of Kenosha in '06." Jody explained. "Raised by an elderly grandparent. No living kin. You think the vamps are the ones who took her?"

Angela adjusted Grace in her arms and frowned. "Eight years is a long time for a human to live with vampires without getting killed or turned."

"You're the experts," Jody shrugged. "But there was something… familiar about the way this vamp talked to her."

"Jody's right." Sam agreed. "And she had scars on her neck, feeding scars. Uh… they're layered, as if they'd been built on for years."

"So, she's a blood slave," Dean concluded. "We've seen it before—vampires keeping people as pets, human feedbags. Sometimes these slaves…"

"Stay loyal to their captors." Angela finished.

"Yeah," Dean muttered.

"Right." Sam sighed.

"So… This girl's not talking 'cause she's got a case of… what?" Jody raised her brows. "Vampiric Stockholm syndrome?"

"She's protecting the nest," Angela noted.

~/~\~

"So, you feel a debt," Sam noted.

"They gave you a home, raised you," Dean added.

"Annie, we get it." Angela continued. "Loyalty is a very powerful thing."

"My name is Alex." She corrected.

"No, it's not," Sam replied. "Your name is Annie Jones."

"Those vampires stole you," Dean explained. "They're monsters, Annie."

"Alex." She corrected again.

"And they didn't love you. They loved your blood. They fed on you." Dean reminded.

"I fed them. My choice." Alex argued. "My brothers—they brought me food when I was hungry. So, when they struck out on a hunt, I fed them. They're my family."

"Okay, you care about them, but, Alex… There's a reason you decided to run away," Angela said gently.

Alex shifted in her seat slightly. "It was time… to move on and get out on my own."

"And how do you think that decision is gonna sit with the rest of the nest?" Dean quirked a brow. "One of them already pursued you. You think when the rest of them find out that you left that they're just gonna shrug and cut their losses?"

"You lived with them for years," Sam added as he adjusted Grace in his arm. "They've tasted your blood. They have your scent down cold. I mean, how far can you run and for how long?"

"You didn't think this out, did you?" Angela asked as a tear ran down Alex's face. "What would happen, who might get hurt—your, uh, 'brother,' for one."

"His name's Cody. And she killed him." Alex motioned to Jody, who was looking on.

"Because of a choice you made." Angela reminded firmly. "These are the consequences."

"You got two options—them or you. And we can help you. We can keep you safe." Sam explained. "But you have to help us."

"Where's the nest?" Dean questioned.

"I can't." Alex shook her head. "After what's happened… mama finds me, she'll kill me."

~/~\~

Later, Sam was doing some research on the computer in the sheriff station while Angela sat next to him with Grace on her lap. Jody stood by lost in thought as Dean walked up with a fresh cup of coffee.

"Mills, you okay?" Dean asked gently.

"No wonder she didn't thank me." Jody murmured. "That creep was her brother. I'm fine. You know, mostly, I'm just—I'm hung up on the name. Alex and Annie—they're so close already. Why'd they change it?"

"Okay, so we know from her ticket that Alex hopped a bus out of O'Neill, Nebraska, right?" Sam spoke up.

"Mm-hmm." Jody hummed.

"Obviously, it'd be better to go in with a firm location, but the town ain't that big." Sam continued. "There are no caves or other natural hiding places."

"Alright, so go in, canvass it cold." Dean nodded.

"Well, Angie and I worked together a short list of possible nest locations," Sam replied. "Uh, there's an empty fire station, four or five derelict homes. Nothing we couldn't hit in a day."

"Okay." Dean nodded.

The three hunters got up to leave and Jody followed them.

"Are you okay to babysit by yourself?" Angela asked.

"Oh, well, girl's a flight risk, not exactly friendly, but I think I can handle babysitting detail," Jody replied.

"The station's been made. It might be worth heading upwind for a while." Sam noted. "I mean, vamps are trackers."

"Terrific," Jody muttered sarcastically.

"Yeah," Sam replied.

"Well, I've got an old family cabin outside of town." Jody shrugged. "I can take Grace with us."

"That'll work," Dean replied.

"Okay," Jody pursed her lips as she took Grace from Angela. "Well, shouldn't raise too many eyebrows, me being gone for a day."

"Maybe, but you, uh, sure you don't want backup?" Angela raised her brows.

"You want me to enlist my men in a protection detail against vampires?" Jody asked. "Frank's still in the dark about what hit him last night. The guy still has nightmares about the barn episode of 'Walking Dead.' They're good cops. They're not ready for this."

"Jody, in your late-night reading, did you ever come across anything about dead man's blood?" Sam quirked a brow.

"Mnh-mnh." Jody shook her head.

"It takes vamps down like a horse tranq," Sam explained.

"I would not say no to some of that," Jody replied. "I mean, not that I'll need it. You guys are gonna get the jump on these vamps and be back here before they even realize their kin's missing, right?"

Angela pressed a gentle kiss to Grace's forehead. "See you soon, baby girl."

~/~\~

The Winchesters approached a rundown house and entered cautiously, searching with flashlights. The house was clearly being lived in, as there were beds made on the floor and food in the kitchen.

"This place is a foreclosure, right?" Dean asked curiously.

"Yep." Sam nodded. "It is, just like the rest of them."

"Well, somebody's squatting here," Angela muttered.

"Blackout windows," Sam noted.

Suddenly, there was a sound of a loud machine from behind the house. The three hunters moved to investigate. They noticed a woodchipper out back and a man was shoving dead bodies into the grinding jaws of the machine.

"Hey!" Angela approached from behind. "Hey, you need a hand with that? Oh." She chuckled dryly as she pointed to the dead hand sticking out. "I guess not."

The vampire bared his teeth and made a move towards Angela. However, Sam and Dean jumped in and cracked him over the head with two shovels.

~/~\~

The hunters had tied the vampire, Dale, to a chair in the house.

"You go out with the family, bring home a nice dinner," Dean commented. "How did you get stuck doing the dishes?"

"We all have our roles to play." Dale glared.

"Yours being destroying the evidence, yeah?" Sam quirked a brow. "Nice job. Ralph Hedges. Stacy Kepler. Any reason you targeted them?"

"Yeah. Hunger." Dale snarled.

"And, so, the family's what?" Angela tilted her head. "Out taking a nice after-dinner stroll?"

"Oh, I'm sure they'll be back real soon." Dale drawled.

"What I asked was…" Angela grabbed Dale's hair and jerked his head, so their faces were extremely close. "Where are they?"

~/~\~

Angela threw a punch right into Dale's stomach. "You don't want to talk. No skin off my back. 'Cause you see, a blood-sucking, body-chipping vamp—that's bad enough, but vamps… that kidnap kids…" she glared darkly. "Well, I'm going to enjoy putting you down."

"Of course. Oh, I knew this was about Alexis." Dale scoffed. "I warned mama that girl would screw everything up for us one day."

Sam's brows furrowed. "Mama? As in one vamp turned you all?"

"Well, all of us but little sis," Dale replied. "She was, uh, 'too good to turn.' Mama couldn't bring herself to, no matter what we said, no matter how bad Alexis got."

"Bad?" Dean questioned.

"Let me guess," Dale smirked. "You never had a teenage sister. Dragging her heels, whining, near constant, about everything, but more and more about the blood, like she's somehow above it, like she's better than us 'cause she don't feed on people."

"She is better than you, dumbass," Angela replied darkly.

"Her moping? That teenage crisis-of-conscience crap? It's annoying as hell, but it's just an act." Dale explained. "When the chips are down, she'll always choose us over humans. I mean, how do you think we stayed off your radar all these years? Pretty, young, lost-looking think like her?" he smirked. "Irresistible, especially to the kind of man few people would miss. I mean, sure, we hunt sometimes for sport, but it's a lot easier and a lot safer to get delivery."

"She's your lure." Dean frowned deeply.

"Best a vamp could ask for." Dale chuckled. "And you better believe you don't get that good at it unless you enjoy it. In her own sweet way… Girl's as bloodthirsty as any vampire."

"Jody and Gracie." Sam's face fell as he realized.

~/~\~

Sam, Dean, and Angela were all on their phones.

"You got it. Thank you." Sam said, ending his call.

"She's not answering," Dean grumbled.

"She's not replying to my texts," Angela added.

"I just ran the victims' names through the local P.D. They both worked at the O'Neill bus station." Sam explained.

"So, they killed them for Alex's location," Dean replied as his phone started ringing. "Jody?"

"Dean, what's up?" her voice rang through.

"Listen to me," he said firmly. "The vamps know that Alex went to Sioux Falls, okay? They're probably already there. We're on our way there next. But there's something else. There's something about Alex."

"It can wait. They're here." Jody replied.

"What?" Dean's face fell.

"At the cabin. Now." Jody replied frantically.

"We're on our way," Dean assured.

"Hurry." She stressed before hanging up.

"She hung up." Dean sighed heavily.

"Alright." Sam nodded. "We're moving."

"Yeah. I'll meet you guys outside." Angela replied.

Angela walked back into the room with Dale and without even missing a beat, she beheaded him in one downward stroke of the machete.

A/N: Hey, guys, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Things are really starting to heat up ;) Also, Snapshots will be back next week, because school's been a little wild. I'm still adjusting to the new semester. As always, thank you for the recent reviews! Love you guys, xoxo.

~Emily