Here you go guys! I hope you like it. I got to finish it today since classes were canceled due to a bomb threat on campus. Happy Late Halloween!
"I'm Bobby. Are you the poor girl these two idjits have holed up in here with them?"
"Help." Aubri said as she gestured at the two guys behind her.
Bobby shook his head and patted her on the shoulder as he walked past her and over to where the guys were. Folsom trotted along behind him, tongue lolling out of the side of his mouth as he waited to be greeted by the newcomer. "Well who is this fella?" Bobby asked, finally noticing Folsom and leaning over to pat him on the head.
"That's my dog Folsom." Aubri said as she sat down and rested her head on the table again. "He got brought over here with me somehow. Now can you make those two stop acting like four year olds so we can get back to figuring out what is going on around here and what happened to me?"
Bobby laughed softly, "I've been trying to get those two to quit acting like snot nosed brats ever since I met them. They ain't never gonna change." He turned to look at Sam, then Dean, "Now are you two gonna give me the scoop on what is going on around here?"
Aubri kept her head on the table while Sam and Dean recapped what had happened over the past couple of days. They kept going back and forth about how different parts of their story had actually happened and all Aubri could do was laugh quietly to herself. At least they were giving him the important stuff in between all of the arguing. She looked up briefly and saw Bobby nodding, asking questions when he needed to, all while Folsom leaned against his leg and the old man absentmindedly rubbed the dog's head.
When the guys got to the part of the story that had happened about an hour before Bobby got there he stopped them. "Ok I've heard enough. I'm surprised at you two, really, I am."
Aubri couldn't help but smile at the tone Bobby was using on the guys, he sounded like a dad who had caught his kids doing something stupid. Which, she guessed, was pretty much what was going on.
"First off, Sam, Dean did not steal your computer." When Sam started to protest Bobby held up a hand and shushed him. "And Dean, Sam did not touch your car. And if you two bothered to pull your heads out of your asses, it all would have been pretty clear."
"What?" Dean asked as Aubri picked up her head and started listening a little more closely.
"What you're dealing with."
"I got nothing." Dean said shaking his head.
"Me neither." Added Sam.
Aubri's brow furrowed as she remembered something she had learned in one of her classes. They had all been required to study a different culture's mythology behind their religions and something was ringing a bell here, she just couldn't put her finger on it.
"You've got a trickster on your hands." Bobby explained.
Dean snapped his fingers and smiled, "That's what I thought."
"What?!" Sam asked laughing, "No you didn't."
"I've gotta tell you," Bobby added, "You guys were the biggest clue."
"What do you mean?" Sam asked.
Aubri raised her hand slowly, waiting for someone to notice her as Bobby explained further, "These things create chaos and mischief as easy as breathin' and it's got you so turned around and at each other's throats, you can't even think straight."
"The laptop."
"The tires."
"It knows you're onto him and it's been playing you like fiddles."
"So what is it? A spirit? Demon? What?"
At that Aubri cleared her throat loudly and they all looked at her. "It's basically a demi-god. You know, Norse mythology, Loki was a trickster and all he did was run around and cause trouble. That's what this sounds like."
Bobby looked at her with a look of pleasant surprise on his face. "She's right. They're immortal and they can create things out of thin air, things as real as you and me and make them vanish just as quick."
"Like an angry spirit or an alien or an alligator." Dean said, finally getting it.
"The victims fit the MO too, except for you Aubri. From what Sam told me I'm thinkin' what happened with you is something completely different. Anyways, tricksters target the high and mighty; knock them down a peg, usually with a sense of humor. Deadly pranks, things like that."
"So what do these things look like?" Dean asked.
"Anything they want." Aubri chimed in.
"Yeah, but human mostly." Bobby finished.
Dean turned towards Sam slowly as he connected the dots. "What human do we know that's been at ground zero this whole time?"
Sam's eyebrows drew together as he thought and then relaxed once it hit him. "The janitor."
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The next day, while the guys were out talking to the janitor, Aubri hung back at the motel with Folsom and Bobby. Aubri was flipping through the channels on the TV while she rubbed Folsom's head that was resting in her lap. When she finally decided nothing good was on she turned to Bobby who was flipping through the pages of some old book. "So, how long have you known Sam and Dean?" She asked.
He looked up at her, taking a minute to process her question, "Since they were kids. I helped out their dad some and the boys would get left with me every now and then."
"So hunting these things is kind of like a family thing for them?"
"Not really. John got into it after Mary, the boys' mom, died. He became obsessed with finding the thing that did it and he finally figured out what did it, but he died before he could kill the thing."
"The Yellow Eyed Demon." Aubri said under her breath.
Bobby caught what she said and looked at her curiously, "Yeah, how do you know about that?"
"Did Sam not tell you about what I think happened to me?"
Bobby shook his head, "All he said was you had some crazy theory that you were from a parallel universe."
Aubri sighed and launched into a thorough explanation of her parallel universe theory. She explained how there was a show called Supernatural in her world that was basically their lives and how everything from her world was here, but her friends didn't know her and her house was in shambles and it was basically like she didn't exist. "The only problem is I can't remember what happened right before I woke up in the parking lot. I remember walking to Skylar's house for the graduation party she was throwing for me and that's it. Next thing I know Folsom is licking my face and Sam and Dean are staring at me."
"Not the most pleasant thing to wake up to." Bobby said nodding solemnly.
"Tell me about it. Anyways, I thought I recognized them, but I couldn't figure out where from until I took Folsom on a walk and it just hit me. I had seen them on a show one of my guy friend's watches. It is the only thing that makes sense to me. I just can't figure out how or why I'm here now. If I could just remember what happened after I went to Skylar's then maybe that would help us figure out what is going on with me."
"Well you keep thinkin' on that and in the meantime you can help me do some research." Bobby said, passing her a dusty old book and smiling faintly at her.
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A few hours later Bobby got a call. Aubri watched him closely as he spoke quietly to someone that seemed to be Sam. "Ok see you there." He ended as he flipped the phone shut. "Sounds like the boys have pinned the janitor as the trickster. I'm gonna go head over to Crawford Hall to give them a hand. You stay here."
Aubri scoffed as she stood up, "No way. I'm not getting left behind. You can ask the guys, I've been helping, I know what I'm talking about, and I've watched enough Buffy in my day to be able to stake something. How hard can it be?"
"Pretty damn hard sweetheart." He said gruffly.
Aubri rolled her eyes, "What is up with you men and calling me sweetheart? And even if it is harder than I think, at least I can be there to run interference, I can distract the trickster, something, anything, but I'm not getting left behind." Her heart was racing because this was a slightly terrifying situation, but her jaw was set determinedly, she was going to help, she had to help, and no one was going to stop her.
Bobby and Aubri stared at each other for a moment, but when Bobby caught the determined glint in her eye, the same look Dean had given him since he was a kid and had set his mind to something, he sighed and gave in. "Fine you can come, but you better be able to hold your own because we don't need any distractions while we are trying to get this thing. Trickster's are nasty and this one has got to go."
Aubri smiled triumphantly as she followed Bobby out the door, patting Folsom on the head as she walked out.
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They met Sam outside of Crawford Hall and they all stood in a circle as they figured out their next move. "Ok so Dean and I made the trickster think we got in a fight and that we were splitting up, so he doesn't know that we are going to show up." He explained. "Bobby, you take one door to the auditorium and Aubri you come with me to the other door."
Bobby and Aubri nodded and they walked into the building, Bobby going off to the left while Aubri followed Sam to the right, slowly rolling the stake she had in between her hands. She was trying to come to terms with what was about to happen. They were going to go kill a trickster, something that wasn't even supposed to be real. How did you kill a myth? Apparently you staked it through the heart while it wasn't looking, but they didn't tell you that in the story books.
They stopped just outside of the auditorium doors and Sam held up his hand, signaling her to wait. He put his ear up to the door and listened, waiting for whatever it was Dean was supposed to say to let Sam and Bobby know to come in. Sam straightened up when he heard the signal and pushed open the door.
Aubri tried to look threatening, but after realizing she probably looked like an idiot she gave in to standing there cluelessly with her stake. "That fight you guys had outside… that was a trick?" The trickster said with a hint of admiration in his voice. "Not bad." Just as Dean pulled out his stake, the trickster spoke up again, "You wanna see a real trick?"
Aubri heard a chainsaw fire up just behind her and Sam and looked over her shoulder just in time to see a masked man lift the roaring chainsaw in the air. She quickly dove to the side as the guy with the chainsaw slashed at Sam. She popped her head up over the chairs in front of her to see Dean fighting with one of the lingerie wearing girls and the trickster watching. She set her jaw and began climbing over the rows of the chairs as quietly as she could while everyone else was distracted.
Dean was being pummeled by the playboy bunny wannabes and Sam and Bobby were struggling to avoid decapitation as Aubri made her way closer and closer to the trickster. Just as she got to the row behind him the chair she stepped on squeaked and he whipped around. "Oh it's you." He said as his eyes landed on her. "Pops has got big plans for you sugar." The last part he said just loud enough for her to hear before he flicked his finger and she went flying backwards, but not before she threw her stake over his head.
The stake landed near Dean and he grabbed it, standing up just as the trickster turned around, "Now Dean, I did not want to do th-" He was cut off when Dean jammed the stake into his chest.
"Neither did I." Dean said through gritted teeth. Dean twisted the stake a little further into him and the chainsaw main and lingerie girls disappeared. Once they were gone, Dean pulled back on the stake and pushed the trickster back onto the seats behind him.
Aubri, who had landed on some chairs a few rows back, stood up slowly, rubbing her head and wincing as her shoulder protested. She limped out of the row and down the aisle towards Sam, Dean, and Bobby. "Everyone okay?" Dean asked as he wiped the blood off of his lip.
"Yeah, I guess." Sam said as he stared at the body of the trickster.
"Well I gotta say, he had style." Dean said with a smile as he turned around, groaning slightly from the pain of his injuries. He saw Aubri cradling her arm, blood trickling slowly from a cut on her forehead. "You ok?" He asked quietly, concern evident in his voice as he walked over to stand in front of her.
"Yeah, I think so," she said slowly, "I just landed kinda funny."
Dean pushed her hair away from her face slowly, letting out a low whistle as he saw the three inch long gash running along her forehead just below her hairline. "We should head back to the room so we can all clean up and we can fix up that cut you have there."
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When they got back to the motel Bobby grabbed his things and headed back to his place, telling the boys to call him if they needed anything and that Aubri was welcome to bring Folsom and stay at his place if she got tired of babysitting. Aubri was sitting on the bed facing Dean while he wiped as much of the blood as he could off of her face. Sam was out digging around in the trunk of the Impala looking for some butterfly bandages and an Ace bandage for wrapping up Aubri's ribs. "If you don't want to stay with us we can take you to Bobby's in the morning, but just so you know," his hazel-green eyes met her blue ones, "you are more than welcome to stay with me and Sam until we figure out what is going on with you. That is, if you want to stay with us."
Aubri blushed slightly and broke eye contact, "I'll think about it." She said quietly. Aubri didn't know if she could handle being tossed around like a ragdoll on a daily basis. I'm sure this life was great if you were raised into it, but she just wasn't built for this kind of life.
They sat in silence for a moment before Sam walked back in with the bandages. "Here you go man." He said as he tossed Dean the boxes.
At that moment, Folsom decided to jump onto the bed next to Aubri. He whined and leaned heavily against her, causing her to suck in a breath and wince. "Get off Folsom, please, that hurts." Tears welled up in her eyes as she tried to fight through the pain in her shoulder and ribs long enough to push him off of her. "Sam? Can you take him for a walk please? I just can't keep pushing him off every time he jumps up here, it hurts too much."
"Yeah no problem." He said as he pulled Folsom to the door by his collar.
"Ok look here now." Dean asked as he finished cleaning the gash on her forehead and got out a few of the butterfly bandages. He tried to be as careful as he could as he put the bandages on her forehead, wincing slightly every time she did. Once he was done he looked at her awkwardly. "Um so if I'm gonna wrap your ribs I'm gonna need you to take your shirt off." Dean couldn't figure out why he felt weird about asking her to take her shirt off. He took girls' shirts off all the time and never had a problem, but for some reason it was different now.
Aubri blushed slightly and nodded. She tried to pull her shirt over her head and stopped when the pain got to be too much. Her arms were sticking out to the sides and her shirt was halfway up her stomach, stopping just below her bra. She let out a whimper, "I'm stuck." Her lower lip stuck out in a pout as her face got even redder. "God this is so awkward, can you help?"
Dean laughed nervously, "Yeah, sure." He said as he reached over and helped her get her uninjured arm out of its sleeve. Aubri tried to duck her head as Dean lifted her shirt and pulled it over her head and Aubri held out her hurt arm as much as she could as he slid the sleeve down and off of it. "Ok just hold your arms out as much as you can and I'll try to not make this hurt." He said, briefly making eye contact with her, his heart speeding up as his eyes met her bright blue ones.
Aubri shivered slightly as she felt his rough hands graze her side. She kept her face turned down to hide the blush that was lighting up her face. She couldn't believe that she was sitting in front of a gorgeous guy, granted he was an annoying gorgeous guy, but gorgeous all the same, in her bra. It wasn't even a cute bra, just plain and white.
They sat in silence as Dean wrapped the ace bandage around her and when he was done he sat back. "I'll get you a shirt." He said, clearing his throat and standing up. He couldn't figure out what was going on with him. Any other girl and he would have been so smooth, he would have been Dean, but something about her was different. Something about her kept him on his toes and he didn't know how she would react. He grabbed one of his button downs and tossed it to her. "This will be easier to get in and out of for now." He explained.
"Thanks Dean." She said, slipping into the shirt and willing her heart to slow down. Once she had buttoned up the shirt she scooted back on the bed and laid down against the pillows. "I think I'm just going to rest my eyes now." She said as her eyes drifted slowly shut and she let sleep overtake her.
Dean walked over to drape a blanket over her as Sam opened the door and walked back in with Folsom. Dean held up his hand, signaling Sam to be quiet as carefully took Aubri's glasses off of her nose and set them on the bed side table. "You think she's gonna stay man?" Sam asked quietly.
"I don't know man, I don't know."
I hope it was all you hoped for! The next chapter is going to be a little filler thing that I made up as a joke with a friend. It was based off of another dream I had. I always have dreams that have the boys in them for some reason. As always, review at will!