Ok so since I love you guys so much, and since I probably won't be able to update until Thanksgiving at the earliest, I am going to give you part two of Roadkill. I hope you like it!
As they walked through the woods Aubri stumbled and fell, her glasses falling off of her nose as she did so. She patted the ground around her, looking for them, when a hand appeared in front of her and helped her to her feet. "Lose something Velma?" Dean asked as he set her glasses back on her nose gently. "You should really get some contacts."
Aubri huffed as she pushed her glasses up higher on her nose, "I like my glasses."
"Yeah, but you won't be as cute when some thing comes along and smashes them so that the glass takes an eye out. Some girls can rock the pirate eye patch look, but I don't think you are one of those girls sweetheart." He said as he patted her on the shoulder and turned to catch up with Sam and Molly.
"Don't call me sweetheart." Aubri huffed under her breath as she tried to catch up to the others without falling again.
They drew closer to an abandoned building and they crept forward as quietly as they could in the dead leaves. "This is it; this is where I saw him." Molly said quietly as they peered in through the open door.
Dean walked in first, shining the beam of his flashlight back and forth. "Must have been his hunting cabin." He mused, "Hmm, seems like a real sweet guy." He said as he looked at all of the traps and knives hanging on the walls.
Aubri stood next to Molly, shivering slightly, as Sam walked in, "No markers or headstones outside."
"You're looking for Greely's grave?" Molly asked suspiciously.
"Yeah."
"Why?"
"So we can dig up the corpse and salt and burn it." Dean replied bluntly.
"Oh, sure, naturally." Sarcasm dripped off of every word.
"It's a way to get rid of a spirit." Sam explained.
"And that'll save David?"
Aubri walked over to where Dean was looking at the knives decorating the walls as Sam continued to explain to Molly what they were trying to do. "So what do we do if Greely finds us before we find his body?" Aubri asked quietly.
Dean raised his gun in answer, "Shells filled with rock salt, makes the mean ghost go poof. At least for a little bit."
They walked closer to hear Molly ask Sam, "So you guys are like the Ghostbusters?"
Aubri snorted as she laughed quietly, "That's the best description I've heard of you two." She responded when Dean glared at her.
"Yeah, but we don't wear the jumpsuits so we aren't exactly like the Ghostbusters." Dean answered, ignoring Aubri. "Listen lady, this highway is only haunted once a year and we've got til sun up to wrap this thing up so what do you say we move it along ok? Alright." He said with a smirk as he brushed past Aubri and Molly.
Dean went off in one direction while Aubri followed Sam and Molly. A little ways into the woods Aubri noticed that Molly was no longer behind her and turned around to see Molly walking in the opposite direction. When she turned to look at Sam he was completely oblivious and still trudging along looking for Greely's grave. "Great." Aubri muttered as she hurried along, trying to catch up to Molly.
"Molly!" Aubri whispered, trying to get her attention. "Molly!" She could hear Molly calling for David and had a sinking feeling in her stomach. Greely was going to hear her and Sam and Dean were nowhere to be seen. Of course when I need them they aren't around, Aubri thought to herself, throwing her head back in frustration. When she looked back at Molly she saw Greely standing right to the side of her. "Molly look out!" Aubri yelled as she saw Greely grab Molly.
Aubri ran forward to help, but then, out of nowhere, Dean was there with his gun to Greely's head. "Whoops." He said as he pulled the trigger and Greely vanished in a puff of smoke.
Sam came running up from behind Molly, "Hey are you all right!?"
Aubri walked over to stand next to Dean as Molly asked, "What has that son of a bitch done to my husband?"
"Just take it easy alright?" Sam reassured her, "You're gonna see David again. You will."
"Hey!" Dean called as he spotted something. "Follow the creepy brick road." He shined his flash light on a path through the woods with overgrown brush on the sides.
Aubri stayed close to Dean in the front while Molly and Sam brought up the rear. "If you walk any closer to me, you're going to be under my feet." Dean said under his breath.
Aubri backed off a little, "Sorry, it's just I don't like this."
Dean laughed quietly, "Wishing we left you back at Bobby's with the drool machine?"
Aubri puffed up and set her jaw determinedly, "No, I'm just saying I have a bad feeling about all this, it just, it feels wrong somehow. It's just kind of crazy."
"Welcome to the life sweetheart." Dean said, flashing her a smile.
Aubri rolled her eyes, she was too focused on the sounds around them to complain about him calling her sweetheart right now. They rounded a corner and before them stood a rundown house. "You know just one time I want to round the corner and see a nice house." Dean said to Sam with a laugh.
As they walked up the steps Aubri felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand up and she turned around quickly, peering into the dark brush and trees. She had that awful feeling that someone had been watching her, but she could see who it was. "You ok?" Dean asked as he stopped in front of the door, startling her out of the daze she had been in.
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine." She replied as she followed him into the house where Sam and Molly were already looking around.
"Any headstones outside?" Sam asked Dean as he set his bag down on the couch they were all standing around.
"Yeah right, is it ever that easy?" Dean said as he walked into the kitchen. Dean shined a light on the stairwell, "You two check upstairs. See if you can find any notes saying where he is buried. Aubri you check around down here with me."
Aubri and Dean checked the bottom floor quickly and quietly before heading upstairs to find Molly and Sam. They walked in on Sam explaining why spirits like Greely were here. "Sam always gets a little J. Love Hewitt about these things. Me, I don't like them, and I sure as hell ain't making apologies for them." After Sam and Molly just looked at him for a moment her rolled his eyes and stepped into the room. "There's nothing downstairs, did you find anything?"
"Uh, just about every piece of mail or receipt they ever had. Looked through a couple, but nothing about a grave yet." Sam answered.
Aubri went to look out the window, brushing away the dirt and dust that had accumulated on the glass over the years, while Dean searched around the room. There was something more here, he could feel it, he just couldn't figure out what it was exactly. He stopped by a chest of drawers and looked at it closely for a minute, "There's something behind here." He said as he tossed Sam his flash light and moved the dresser, revealing a small do to what looked like a crawl space. He knocked on it and pushed a couple times as Aubri crossed the room to stand just behind Sam. "It's locked from the inside." Dean said as he stood up and turned his back to the little door. He gave it one kick, trying to open it, and when that failed a frustrated look crossed his face and he gave it another even harder kick to which the little door gave way.
Sam handed Dean his gun and Dean crouched down to go through the little door into the room on the other side. "Smells like old lady in here." He said as he brushed the cobwebs away and the others followed him. They all walked further into the room before Dean turned and the beam of his flashlight landed on a hanging corpse. "That would explain why."
"Oh God." Aubri said quietly as she put her hand over her mouth in shock, "Is that?"
"Yeah," Dean said gruffly, "Well now we know why nobody ever saw her again."
"She didn't want to live without him." Molly said quietly, never taking her eyes off of the corpse of Greely's wife.
Sam stood before Greely's wife, looking up at her for a moment before he turned to Dean, "Dean give me a hand." He asked as he picked up the chair that was lying on its side.
"Really?" Dean asked incredulously.
Aubri's brow furrowed and she gave him a light shove towards Sam, "Go help him." She urged quietly when he looked back at her.
"We can't leave her like this."
"Why not?" Dean asked, earning himself a slap to the back of the head from Aubri who was looking at him in disbelief.
"She deserves to be put to rest Dean."
Dean shook his head and crossed over to Sam, wrapping his arms around the corpse to catch her, "Son of a bitch." He muttered as he did so.
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After they buried Mrs. Greely they went back inside. Molly was sitting at the kitchen table with Aubri, looking through the photo album they had found upstairs with her. Dean and Sam were talking about something in the other room and Molly caught a piece of the conversation that interested her, "Tell me what?" She asked as she got up and walked over to them. "What aren't you telling me?" When neither of them responded she continued. "It's about David, you know what happened to him!"
"Molly," Sam started.
"Sam don't." Dean cut him off.
"Don't what? Don't tell me something because I'll mess up your hunt?" Molly asked angrily as she walked towards them, Aubri walking just behind her now. "You don't care about me or my husband." Molly accused.
"That's not true." Sam had a pained look in his eyes.
"Really? Then tell me what it is, please." Sam opened his mouth to speak just as the radio came on and House of the Rising Sun started playing, "He's coming." Molly said worriedly, moving to stand closer to Sam.
"Stay with her." Dean ordered as he went in the kitchen to check it out.
"Molly, it's going to be ok." Aubri whispered reassuringly as the wind picked up outside and Sam started to walk slowly towards the kitchen. Before she knew it, the glass just behind her shattered and Greely pulled Molly through the broken window. "Dean it's Greely!" Aubri yelled as she jumped through the window, chasing after Molly and Greely.
Aubri followed them all the way back to the hunting cabin. She walked around the outside quietly, trying to get a look at what was inside. She could see Molly tied up, but Greely was nowhere to be seen. Slowly she walked through the door towards Molly who was looking at her with fear in her eyes, "No." Molly whispered.
Aubri turned around quickly to see Greely standing right behind her. "She's mine." He growled flicking his hand so that Aubri flew back and hit the wall behind her. Her skull cracked against the wood and the last thing she saw was Greely advancing on Molly before her world went black.
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Back in the house Sam and Dean were looking around for clues as to where Greely was buried, they couldn't fight him unless they could salt and burn his bones. As they walked around Dean looked up quickly, realizing something, someone, was missing, "Where's Aubri?" He asked worriedly, he couldn't believe he was just now realizing she wasn't with them.
Sam looked around, "I don't know man, she must have gone after Greely and Molly."
"Damnit!" Dean said shaking his head.
"Don't worry man, she can handle herself."
"Yeah until she trips and her glasses fall off, then she is a sitting duck." Dean retorted.
Sam put a hand on Dean's shoulder, "Dean, she'll be fine."
"Yeah, because we are going to find her and we are going to get that Greely bastard." Dean shrugged his shoulder out from under Sam's hand, "We need to find Greely's bones, and, no pressure or anything, but we've got less than two hours before sunrise."
Sam picked up the photo album "Hey, look at this!"
"What've you got?" Dean asked as he looked at the picture, "February 6, 1992. That's like two weeks before the accident right?"
"Yeah, I mean, it looks like the hunting cabin, but I swear there's a tree there, right where they're standing." Sam looked up and rolled his eyes as if amazed by his own stupidity, "Should've thought of it."
"What?"
"It's an old country custom Dean, planting a tree as a grave marker."
Dean looked at Sam oddly for a moment, "You're like a walking encyclopedia of weirdness." He turned and started walking towards the door, "Now let's go get Aubri back and get this son of a bitch."
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Aubri thought she heard a gunshot and tried to pick up her head, but she couldn't. Her head felt like it was filled with cement and her eyelids were like curtains of lead. She could hear Dean's voice saying her name and then a thud as something hit something else. She struggled to move, but she couldn't and then she heard the sounds of Greely struggling with something, then nothing.
Dean cut Molly down before hurrying over to Aubri's side. He could see her head movie slightly and he put a hand on her cheek. "Hey Aubs," He said quietly, "try not to be a hero next time and stick with me and Sam, ok sweetheart? It's a whole lot safer with us." He smiled as her eyes slowly opened and focused on his face. "Hey." The worry he had felt when he saw her slumped against the wall slowly melted away when her blue eyes met his.
"Hey," She said hoarsely as she tried to move and winced at the pain in her head, "try not to be so slow getting here next time." She reached up and patted his cheek as he chuckled quietly and rolled his eyes. "Now be a gentleman and help me up."
Dean pulled her up slowly and she swayed when she straightened up, placing her hands on his chest to steady herself. "Careful," He said, studying her closely, "you might have a concussion."
The walk back to the Impala was a slow one. Dean had his arm around Aubri's waist to steady her and she tried not to stumble as she walked. When the car was finally in sight Aubri could feel Dean relax, "Oh baby it's been a long night." He said patting the car before opening the door for Aubri and helping her settle in the back.
Sam took Molly to the other side of the car and opened her door for her, "Alright, let's get you out of here."
"I'm not going anywhere, until you tell me what happened to my husband." Molly said determinedly, "All night, I've been looking for him and you knew, you knew that Greely killed him, didn't you? He's dead."
"No Molly, David's alive."
"You're sure?"
"Yeah, I'm sure; we'll take you to him. Come on." Sam said, nodding towards the car with a sad look on his face as Molly climbed into the backseat.
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Aubri climbed out of the car slowly as Molly disappeared in a bright light with the rising sun. She walked over to the guys slowly and stopped just between them. "This is why you guys don't get to leave me behind when you go talk to people ok?" She said with a faint smile on her face. "And if I'm asleep when you figure stuff out, you tell me when I wake up. That way you don't have to fill me in in the middle of a hunt. I'm part of the team now ok and I get to help, but I can only help if I know what it going on." Sam and Dean looked at each other over Aubri's head and she watched the two of them as they exchanged looks and eyebrow raises. "And you really need to cool it with these silent conversations you two have. It's no fair that I can't be in on the secrets just because I don't know the secret language of the Winchesters." She turned and walked back to the car where she leaned against the side, waiting for them to come on so they could hit the road again.
Dean looked at Sam, "Do you think she's in a better place?"
"I hope so."
"I guess we'll never really know until we take the plunge ourselves."
"It doesn't really matter Dean, hope's kind of the whole point."
Dean raised his eyebrows before turning to walk back to the car. "All right Haley Joel," He slapped Sam's shoulder as he walked past him, "Let's hit the road." Sam followed behind him and Dean stopped in front of Aubri. "You ready to go?"
"I've been waiting on you sweetheart." She said with a smile as she climbed into the backseat.
Dean laughed as he opened his door, "Look who's calling who sweetheart now."
Ok so like I said it is going to be a little while before I can update again because it is crunch time in school. The semester is almost over and my professors like to watch us all squirm under pressure. I'll try to have the next chapter up by Thanksgiving, but no promises. I'm skipping the episode "Heart" just because it is mainly a Sam centric episode and I can't think of any good ways to fit in Aubri, plus that episode breaks my heart and I don't feel like crying anytime soon. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and as always review at will!
