Title: by blood

Disclaimer: Dean doesn't belong to me.

Warnings: spoilers for "Shadow," though nothing blatant.

Pairings: mentions of OMC/OFC

Rating: PG

Wordcount: 150

Point of view: third


She knows who he is the minute he walks in the door, struts his way to the desk. She knows what he'll ask before he asks it; when he utters the words, she makes it easy, giving him what he needs.

Grandma Anna made sure that all of them—her, Gabe, Vic, and Annie—would be a boon to the descendants of the man that let them live.

Robert Winchester gave us our lives, Grandma Anna told them, as they crouched at her knees, half-human and half-raven. Hundreds of other hunters would have killed my father and mother, soon as look at 'em. But Winchester let them live. So I now give you his scent, as my mother gave it to me. She reached into their minds and showed them how to recognize Winchester's blood.

Robert Winchester's great-grandson stands before her and she knows him—so she tells him everything.