Heart
It had been three weeks since Kaylee had been stabbed with the silver dagger by Meg and she was finally getting enough strength back to be able to walk around Bobby's house. He walked into the lounge room to find Kaylee packed her clothes into her duffel bag.
"Going somewhere?" Bobby asked leaning against his door frame and taking a swig of the beer he was holding. Kaylee winced and held her shoulder as she turned around to face him.
"Yeah… It's not that I don't appreciate you letting me stay here these last few weeks but if I'm healthy enough to walk then I'm healthy enough to hunt with Sam and Dean. I called them; they are on their way to get me now" Kaylee explained and Bobby raised an eyebrow before chuckling.
"You're an idjit, you need rest. I know your used to healing within hours, days but you were stabbed with a silver dagger. Now it might not kill you cause of your weird ass demon blood but that doesn't mean you don't need to rest" Bobby explained making Kaylee smirk at him and shrug.
"Can't help it. I've never been good at sitting around and doing nothing" Kaylee explained before grinning amused.
"Besides Sam and Dean are useless without me. I mean, they got themselves caught up with a Trickster and had no idea. You had to go bail them out" Kaylee added amusement shining in her eyes. Bobby choked on his beer as he laughed loudly.
"That's true but I mean, they did manage to put that spirit to rest who was stuck reliving the night of her death" Bobby countered and Kaylee raised an eyebrow at him.
"I'd be worried about their career choice if they couldn't do that by themselves" Kaylee teased making Bobby chuckle again just as Sam and Dean pulled up and honked the horn. Bobby and Kaylee stopped laughing and looked at each other, Bobby walked over to Kaylee and pulled her into a gentle hug, careful not to hurt her more than she already was.
"Take care of yourself. And the boys" Bobby said and Kaylee nodded, kissing his cheek.
"I will" She promised before picking up her bag with her good arm and left Bobby's house and jumped into the Impala.
"Keen to get back on the road?" Sam asked from the passenger seat.
"Oh, hell yes! Now where are we going?" Kaylee asked excitedly.
"San Francisco, California" Dean replied before speeding out of the driveway.
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"Here he is, detectives" The coroner said to Kaylee and Sam as they went to the local morgue to check out the latest body. The coroner pulled it out to reveal a male that looked like a wolf had teared it to shreds. Kaylee stiffened and Sam frowned confused by her behavior.
"That's a pretty nasty bite. You know what bit him?" Sam asked as Kaylee went silent trying to think of what she was going to do.
"I haven't quite determined that just yet" The Coroner said simply.
"Come on, doc, off the record" Sam urged quietly.
"Okay, way, way off the record" The coroner said firmly and Sam looked at Kaylee but she was still deep in her own thoughts.
"Sure" Sam agreed.
"If I didn't know better, I'd say the guy was attacked by a wolf. But unless the zoo is missing one of their lobos, I'm going with pit bull" The coroner guessed as Sam looked over at Kaylee finally realizing why she was so quiet.
"One more thing. This guy... was his heart missing?" Kaylee asked finally speaking up.
"Yeah, how did you know that? I haven't even finished my report" The coroner asked Kaylee confused.
"Lucky guess" Kaylee said dryly before she and Sam left the morgue.
"So… werewolf?" Sam asked as they jumped into the Impala and Kaylee nodded.
"Yeah, definitely" She confirmed as they drove back to the hotel room where Dean was waiting.
"This lawyer guy the first heart-free corpse in town?" Dean asked as Kaylee went and grabbed a beer from the fridge handing one to Sam and Dean.
"First man. Over the past year, several women have gone missing. Their bodies all washed up later in the bay... too deteriorated to draw firm conclusions" Sam explained.
"But no hearts?" Dean asked.
"No hearts" Kaylee confirmed.
"All hookers working at Hunter's Point. Cops are trying to keep things under wrap. They're looking for a serial killer" Sam continued.
"And the lunar cycle?" Dean asked looking at Kaylee.
"Yeah, all the murders happened in the week leading up to the full moon" Kaylee confirmed still trying to figure out what she was going to do. She has never hunted one of her own before, with the exception of her old pack.
"Which is this week, right?" Dean asked and Kaylee nodded.
"Hence the lawyer" She said simply.
"Awesome" Dean said excitedly as Sam scoffed.
"Dean, could you be a bigger geek about this?" Sam asked annoyed.
"I'm sorry, man, but what about a human by day... a freak animal killing machine by moonlight don't you understand? I mean, werewolves are bad ass" Dean said excitedly before looking over at Kaylee and winking but Kaylee didn't return the friendly gesture, she was staring down at her beer bottle.
"Okay, sparky, and you know what? After we kill it, we can go to Disneyland" Sam mocked.
"Know what the best part is? We already know how to bring these suckers down. One of these bad boys right to the heart" Dean said picking up a silver bullet. Kaylee looked at the silver bullet and couldn't help but institutionally moving away from it and holding her shoulder.
"Kaylee, you okay with killing your own kind?" Dean asked seriously and Kaylee broke her contact with the silver bullet and looked up to see Dean and Sam watching her concerned.
"Let me explain something to you; pureblood werewolves are trained to live by one rule; clean up after yourself. We are taught by birth to leave no trace of bodies we kill. In packs, purebloods clean up after normal werewolves have their lunar turn. But on occasion a pureblood will go rouge or get sloppy in the clean-up. When this happens, a member of the pack is ordered to track down and kill the rogue. That was my job. This werewolf started off killing by our law; they killed high-risk humans who wouldn't be missed but now they are moving onto low-risk humans who are certain to be missed. They have gone rogue so it's my job as a pureblood to put them down" Kaylee explained and Dean and Sam nodded before she looked over at Dean.
"But keep those damn silver bullets away from me" Kaylee added making the brothers chuckle.
"What's our next move?" Dean asked.
"Talk to the girl who found the body" Sam said as they stood up and left the hotel room.
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"I don't understand. I already gave my statement" Madison said to Sam, Dean and Kaylee as they walked into her home. Kaylee could smell the werewolf on her immediately but she also recognized something else; she had no idea what she was. This changed things for Kaylee, dramatically and she wasn't sure how Sam and Dean were going to take it.
"Right. Yeah, well, we just need to verify a few things" Sam said as they followed her into the lounge room to find a male. Kaylee resisted the urge to growl annoyed. Another werewolf and not aware of what he was. Kaylee resisted the urge to just pack up and leave this hunt to the two brothers.
"This is my neighbor, Glen. Glen, this is detective…" Madison went to introduced before trailing off, not remember their names.
"Landis. And Detective Dante and Detective Walker" Dean introduced.
"Well, guess I'll leave you to it. Just call if you need anything" Glen said before leaving.
"He's sweet. He came over to check on me. Have… have a seat" Madison said as Sam and Dean sat down at the table with Madison while Kaylee stood between them watching Madison carefully.
"You must be pretty shaken up. You were Nate Mulligan's assistant, right?" Sam asked.
"For two years, yeah" Madison confirmed.
"So, you knew all about him?" Dean asked.
"Probably knew more about him than he did. Nate was… He was nice" Madison said but she was hiding something.
"But?" Kaylee asked curiously.
"Nothing really, I... He had a few scotches and started hitting on anyone... in a five-mile radius. You know the type" Madison said and Kaylee chuckled.
"Yeah. I do, actually" She said looking at Dean, who stopped chuckling and frowned slightly.
"Did he have any enemies?" Dean asked.
"What do you mean? It sure looked like an animal attack" Madison asked genuinely confused. She had no idea what really happened.
"No. Yeah, we're just covering all the bases. Anyone that might've had a beef with him? Former client, an ex?" Dean asked before Madison thought of someone.
"What?" Sam asked catching the change in her facial features.
"This is embarrassing but my ex-boyfriend, Kurt" Madison stated.
"Kurt have a last name?" Dean asked.
"Mueller. After we broke up, he went kind of nuts. He's... well, he's kind of been stalking me. He got it in his head that something was going on between Nate and I. He showed up at my office" Madison explained
"What happened?" Sam asked.
"Kurt got into it with Nate. Threw a punch before security grabbed him. I was lucky to keep my job" Madison explained.
"When was the last time you saw Kurt?" Kaylee asked thinking that maybe there was another werewolf. Werewolves get very territorial around the humans they've turned. It's the reason why Tully, Kane and Josh meant so much to her. She turned them to save their lives.
"A few nights ago. Actually, the night Nate died. We were grabbing drinks at this bar and Kurt showed up" Madison explained.
"And?" Kaylee asked.
"Nothing. It was like he was watching me. Then he was gone. To tell you the truth... he scares me" Madison confessed before they excused themselves and left Madison's house.
"So, what do you think?" Dean asked
"Stalker ex-boyfriend? He hates the boss. And he was there that night" Sam explained.
"You think he's our dog-faced boy?" Dean asked not even realizing how insulting that was for a werewolf to hear and Kaylee was standing right next to them.
"Well, it's a theory" Kaylee said shrugging, deciding to keep the information about Madison and Glen a secret for now.
"We've had worse. What do you say we pay Kurt a visit?" Dean asked looking at Kaylee who was looking back at the house Madison was in.
"Kaylee?" Dean asked snapping her out of her thoughts.
"Uh… yeah, sure, fine. Let's go" Kaylee said distracted. She had to think of a way to explain to the brothers that Madison didn't know what she was and that Kaylee couldn't kill her because of that small detail.
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