I'm so sorry I haven't updated in forever, I had finals, then I had to move out of one house and into another, and then I had a crippling bought of laziness combined with some procrastination. I should be back now though, at least for the duration of winter break! Ok so I skipped Heart, mainly because I just couldn't find a way to write it how I liked it. So on to Hollywood Babylon!

It had been about a week since Sam had had to shoot Madison and Aubri's heart was still breaking for him. Her head was resting on the cool glass of the window and she watched the white lines on the road whiz by as she thought about what Dean told her.

"The only reason Sam is hunting with me now is because his girlfriend died. Jess was killed by the same thing that killed our mom and that's what got Sam to go back on the road with me." Dean explained quickly while Sam was out getting a drink from the vending machine outside of the room. "Madison was the first girl he's even really paid attention to since Jess and then he ended up not being able to save her either."

Aubri blinked away the tears that formed when she thought about how hard this all must have been on Sam. She couldn't cry now, it would just make Dean think she couldn't handle all this and he would threaten to leave her at Bobby's, something he had been doing a lot since she got hurt going after Greely. One concussion wasn't that big of a deal, ok so it wasn't no big deal, but still, she couldn't figure out why he was so worked up about it. She also didn't want to cry because every time she did her new contacts got all weird and foggy. Dean had talked her into getting some, "Just for hunts." He had said.

They were on their way to L.A. for what Dean wanted to be a vacation, but what Sam had turned into a case on one of the movie sets. Apparently a guy had been killed on set and the girl who found him saw something that vanished into thin air. They pulled into a parking lot for a motel and as she climbed out of the car Aubri asked, "So what do we think this is?"

"We're not sure," Sam answered, "could be a haunting, some kind of vengeful spirit."

"So it's a salt and burn kind of thing?"

"Probably, as long as it isn't something other than a spirit." Sam looked over as Dean walked out of the office, key to the room in his hand.

They walked into the small room and Dean set his stuff down on one of the beds, "Aubri you can have the other bed, Sam gets the floor this time." He said with a smirk as Sam rolled his eyes and set his stuff down in a corner.

"So we are going to tour the studio and take a look around to find out what we can." Sam said as he sat at the small table.

"Well that will be fun even if we can't find anything." Aubri flopped back onto the bed and stretched her arms above her head, yawning. "So when are we going to the studio?"

"Right now." Dean said as he checked his gun to make sure it was loaded.

Aubri sat up quickly, "But we just got out of the car."

"If you want to stay we can just go without you. It doesn't matter to me." Dean said as he walked to the door.

Aubri sighed, "Ok, ok I'm coming." She got up quickly and followed after him.

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At the studio they got on a trolley that took them around on a tour. Dean was acting like a kid in a candy store and Aubri wasn't surprised. After staying with them for a while she found out that Dean liked to watch soap operas when he thought everyone was asleep or not looking and at least one of them was bound to be filmed around here. She also found out that he was a closet geek about a lot of movies and she was holding onto that knowledge for a rainy day that required blackmail.

Dean was chatting some kid up about the different movies that had been filmed on these sets and as they passed the set of Gilmore Girls Sam seemed to have had enough of the tour. "Come on, let's go." He said as he pulled on Aubri's arm and jumped off of the trolley.

"Come on man, we have to finish the tour!" Dean protested. After he jumped off of the trolley he caught up with them and pointed to a man walking past, "Hey look it's Matt Damon."

"Dean that is not Matt Damon." Aubri said, rolling her eyes as she did a double check just to make sure it really wasn't Matt Damon.

"No, it definitely was Matt Damon." Dean argued.

Sam looked over his shoulder before looking back at Dean, "Yeah, well Matt Damon just picked up a broom and started sweeping."

"Well he's probably researching a role or something." Dean defended.

Aubri looked up at him smiling, "That's so sweet Dean, but it isn't Matt Damon, keep dreaming though honey." She said patting him on the arm.

Sam shook his head as he looked around, "I think stage 9 is over here."

"Oh come on man, let's keep going." Dean pleaded.

"It might be kind of fun Sam." Aubri said looking up at him hopefully. Maybe they could have a little fun before they got back to work again. Some fun would be good for Sam.

"Come on, we've gotta work guys." Sam reasoned.

"Golly." Dean muttered under his breath.

Sam was getting fed up with Dean. "You're the one who wanted to come to L.A."

"Yeah for a vacation! Swimming pools and movies stars, not to work."

Aubri snorted at the thought of Dean swimming. She had never seen him in anything but layers of shirts, jeans, and boots. She couldn't imagine him running around in swim trunks. Actually, she could imagine him running around in swim trunks and it looked nice. She smiled to herself as she tried to tune out the boys bickering so it wouldn't ruin her mental image of shirtless Dean. "Does it look like swimming weather, it's practically Canadian." Sam shot back.

"I just figured after everything that happened with," Dean hesitated, "with Madison, I figured you'd want a little R and R, get your mind off things, but no you have to go and find us a case."

"Maybe I want to work Dean, maybe it keeps my mind off things." Sam was starting to get that tone that he got when he was finished with Dean.

"Ok, ok, let's all just focus then." Aubri said, stepping between the two of them. "Sam we can work the case, and Dean if we get some off time, Sam can research and me and you will walk around the studio so you can drool and fangirl over things."

Dean nodded, giving in, "Ok so this crew guy, what, he died on set?"

"Uh yeah, rumors spreading like wildfire online, they're saying the set's haunted."

"Like Poltergeist?" Dean asked a little too excitedly.

"Great movie." Aubri said and Dean nodded in agreement.

"You think it's a poltergeist?" Sam asked.

"No Sam the movie Poltergeist." Aubri corrected.

Dean looked at Sam expectantly, waiting for him to be on the same page as him and Aubri. "You know nothing of your cultural heritage." Dean scolded when Sam didn't answer.

"The set for Poltergeist was supposedly cursed." Aubri explained. "It's rumored they used real bones as props."

"Yeah and at least three of the actors died in it." Dean added, happy there was at least one person who understood what he was talking about. Maybe having Aubri around wasn't so bad, sure she was Sam's kind of nerdy, but she liked cool things too, like his baby and good movies.

Sam shrugged, "Yeah it could be something like that."

"Alright, so this crew guy, what's his name?"

"Frank Jaffey."

"Frank Jaffey, he got a death certificate or a coroner's report or anything?" Dean asked.

"Well no, but it's L.A. you know, it might not even be his real name." Sam answered with a laugh.

Aubri looked up at Sam as they kept walking, "So if we don't have any information other than his name is Frank Jaffey, which might not even be his real name, then how are we going to find out how he died or where his body is?"

Sam shrugged, "We ask around, there's bound to be somebody who knew him well enough to give us something to go off of. Anyways, the girl who found him said she saw something, a vanishing figure."

"What's the girl's name?" Dean asked as he looked around.

"Umm, Tara Bensley." Sam responded.

Dean came to a quick stop and turned to face Sam, putting his hand out to stop him, his arm hitting Aubri in the process too, "Watch it Dean!" She protested as she took a step back.

"Sorry," He said insincerely, eyes still on Sam, "Did you say Tara Bensley? From Fear Dot Com and Ghost Ship Tara Bensley? Dude why didn't you say so?" Dean's voice rose a little with excitement and he smiled wildly at the prospect of meeting the hot actress.

Aubri rolled her eyes, "Dean, chill out, you're drooling. She's just an actress."

Dean looked at her long enough to give her a good glare before putting a hand over her face, "Aubs, shut up. So let's go talk to her Sam, where are we going again?"

"Oh so now you're all gung-ho for this hunt?" Aubri said angrily as she pushed Dean's hand away from her face. "You find out some 'hot' chick might be there and you are all for it." She rolled her eyes and crossed her arms over her chest.

"I'm a fan of her work ok? She's very good," Dean shot back at her, "and if this hunt means keeping her, and the other people safe, so they can make more good movies, then who am I to say no?" He turned and continued walking in the direction of the stage they were going to, leaving Aubri and Sam behind.

"Maybe I should have mentioned hot actresses sooner?" Sam said smiling down at Aubri.

"Yeah, that probably would have been a good idea." She said with a sigh, arms still crossed over her chest, as she watched Dean walking away.

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Once Aubri and Sam caught up to Dean, they quickly found Stage 9. They ducked under a lowering garage door and walked onto the set. Aubri looked around at her surroundings in awe, she had always wanted to be on the set of a movie before, but she never thought it would actually happen. Well maybe she did once when she was five and she had deluded herself into believing she could be an actress.

"Hey, sweetheart!" Aubri heard someone yell, "Sweetheart, you in the blue shirt!" She glanced down, her shirt was blue. When she looked up she saw a man waving her over and she walked over to him slowly.

"Um, yeah?" She asked, confused as to why this man she didn't know was calling her sweetheart. She had gotten used to Dean calling her that, but that didn't mean that she wanted the whole world doing it.

"Can you get me a smoothie from crafting?" He asked.

Aubri stared at him blankly for a moment, confused about what she was being asked to do. "Excuse me?"

The man scoffed at her, "You are a PA, this is what you do."

Once she realized who the man thought she was, Aubri plastered on her best smile, "Oh yeah, sorry sir, I'm new, still learning the ropes." She flipped her hair over her shoulder, doing her best to play the part of an airheaded blonde as she felt Dean and Sam come up behind her. "One smoothie coming right up." She gave him a wink before turning and walking away, grabbing Sam and Dean's arms and tugging them along behind her.

"What's a PA?" She heard Dean ask Sam over her head.

"I think they're kind of like slaves."

"Doesn't matter does it?" Aubri asked as she pulled them to the side, "I got us an in and I didn't have to use a fake badge or anything." She beamed up at them obviously proud of herself.

"Yeah good job," Dean said patting her on the shoulder, "Now go get the man his smoothie while me and Sam do the real work."

Aubri rolled her eyes and stalked off to find wherever it was that they had the smoothies. Once she found them, they handed her a tray of about five smoothies to carry around and pass out to people. She figured it was a good opportunity to get a good look at the set, so she took the tray with a smile and a thank you and started walking around. She got to a set of stairs that led up into the rafters of the stage and slowly looked up. Sam had said that the guy who died had been hanging or something like that so maybe up there was a good place to start. Just as she was about to set down the tray of smoothies she felt a hand on her shoulder. She jumped and whirled around to see who is was, dropping a smoothie in the process.

Dean was standing behind her, hands raised with a cocky grin on his face, "Scared ya' didn't I?"

Aubri set down the tray quickly and then punched him on the arm, "No, you just… you startled me." She turned around and started up the steps slowly, "I was just about to look around up here, see if I could find anything."

Dean pulled something out of his jacket pocket, "You're gonna need one of these then. EMF will tell you if something's been going on even if you can't see it."

"Well then hand it over." Aubri said, sticking her hand out.

"And let you have all the fun? No way," he started up the stairs after her, "get moving sweetheart, we've got a spook to find."

Aubri started heading further up the stairs when, suddenly, the lights cut out. She froze on the step she was on and looked around as Dean ran into her, not realizing she had stopped. He reached for the railing to steady himself and accidentally grabbed the spot where her hand was resting. His hand stayed on top of hers for a moment before they both realized what happened and jerk their hands away. "Dean if you were scared and needed a hand to hold you should have just said something." Aubri joked, smiling back at him.

"Yeah right, like I would want to hold your hand." Dean said, brushing past her. He swallowed hard, his hand felt like it was burning where it had touched hers and he got this weird feeling in his stomach when she smiled at him. "Keep it together Winchester." He mumbled to himself as he fiddled with the EMF reader.

They could hear the sounds of a scene being shot and a woman was reading some kind of incantation. Aubri felt chills run down her spine as she thought about how reading a simple incantation had changed her life so quickly and she wondered if Bobby had found anything out. She saw Dean squat down and hold the EMF reader out over the edge and she walked over, squatting down beside him. "Anything?" She asked, already knowing the answer because none of the lights at the top were doing anything.

"Nope." He said looking around behind him as laughter erupted down on set.

Aubri looked around too, but she knew that there was nothing up there, "Well, do you want to hit the snack bar. I saw these Mini Philly Cheesesteak things that looked pretty good."

Dean stood up quickly, "Woman, you know the way to my heart." He said, patting her on the shoulder as he walked by.

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Dean was helping himself to the snacks at the snack bar and Aubri was watching what was going on around set when Sam found them. "Did you guys find anything?" He asked as he walked up.

Aubri popped a mini sandwich into her mouth and shook her head, "Other than delicious snacks, nope, we've got nothing."

"So what are we thinking here?"

"Well, being a PA sucks," Dean complained, "but the food, are you kidding me? Look at this," he held up one of the mini philly cheesesteaks, "miniature philly cheesesteak sandwiches, they're delicious."

Aubri laughed at the serious expression on Dean's face, "He's right Sam, they're pretty great. You should try one."

"Maybe later."

"Your loss." Aubri muttered as she grabbed another sandwich and Dean stuffed the one he was holding into his mouth. "Did you find out anything about the dead crew guy?" She asked before biting into the delicious little snack. Sam seemed distracted by Dean and when Aubri looked over she saw part of the sandwich hanging out of his mouth, "Come on Dean have some class." She said as she smacked his shoulder.

That snapped Sam out of the disgusted daze he was in, "Umm, not much, he was just filling in for the day, no one really knew him."

"Awesome, so you found out about as much as us." Dean mumbled through a mouthful of sandwich.

"Well no, I did dig up some stuff about Stage 9's history."

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah, four people died messy here over the past 80 years, two suicides and two fatal accidents."

Aubri's brow furrowed slightly, "So it's gotta be a spirit then right?"

"Probably, we've just gotta narrow it down a little bit." Sam responded.

She looked around thoughtfully for a moment before remembering something, "But if it was a spirit then why didn't me and the bottomless pit over here see anything on the EMF when we looked around?"

Sam was about to answer when Dean put his hands on both of their shoulders, a stupid grin on his face, "That's a good girl Aubs, asking the big questions. Hows about you two get on that and I'll look around some more." He said before he quickly walked off.

Aubri crossed her arms over her chest and let out a sigh as she watched Dean walk up to a girl in a pink shirt, "Let me guess, Tara Bensley?" She asked pointing her finger at the girl Dean was making a bee line for.

Sam shrugged, "Yeah, I think that's her. Maybe he can get something out of her."

"Yeah I'm sure he is planning on getting something out of her, if you know what I mean." Aubri elbowed Sam in the side, laughing quietly to herself. When Sam didn't laugh with her, she looked up at him and caught him giving her the side eye. She waved her hands, "Yeah I know, it sounded funnier in my head." She grabbed a mini philly cheesesteak before walking away, "I'm gonna go, ummm, look around some more over here. Maybe look for higher ground so I don't drown in the flood of Dean's drool." She stuffed the little sandwich in her mouth as she walked away. Real smooth Aubri, really smooth.

Her face was hot with embarrassment over how idiotic she had just sounded, but it was more than that too. She felt like someone had their hand wrapped around her heart and was squeezing it. It was a weird mix of anxiety and anger and sadness, but she couldn't figure out what was making her feel that way. She came to the steps that led up to the place her and Dean had been investigating earlier and sat down at the bottom. Running her hand through her hair she tried to get a grip on what she was feeling. Jealousy, there was no way she was jealous of that twig Dean was talking to, why the hell would she be jealous of anyone Dean was talking to? It was Dean, she could hardly wait for him to get out of her hair most of the time. Sure he was easy on the eyes, but that didn't mean she needed to get all flustered when he talked to girls. She had no claim on him and she didn't want a claim on him.

"Aubs!" Dean's voice snapped her out of her thoughts and she slowly looked up, blush spreading across her cheeks, to see Sam and Dean standing in front of her.

"Yeah?"

"I've got something on this Jaffey guy, let's get a move on."

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In the motel room Aubri was leaning back on her bed, flipping through some papers. "So if the Jaffey guy was a fake then that's it then right? Case closed, no ghosts or creepy crawlies to worry about?"

"I don't know, probably, but something doesn't really feel right about all of this." Sam said, staring intently at his laptop.

"What? Your ghost whisperer powers kicking in now Sammy?" Dean had found a channel that was playing one of Tara Bensley's movies and now his eyes were glued to the screen as he ate an actual Philly cheesesteak. "Now that is some quality acting right there." He said, pointing at the screen.

Aubri rolled her eyes, "Yeah right, I could do that. All she has to do is wear tight clothes and scream, it's easy."

"Jealousy does not look nice on you Aubri." Dean said, smirking at her over his shoulder.

"I am not jealous of her." She said through gritted teeth. "I'm just saying that what she does really isn't that hard. Anyone could be the star in a low budget horror film as long as they're hot and have a good set of lungs for screaming."

"Oh, I bet she's a screamer." Dean had a satisfied look on his face as he turned his attention back to the television screen.

Aubri threw a pillow at the back of his head, "You are disgusting!"

"Ok, cut it out you two!" Sam interjected as Dean opened his mouth to say something. "I say we stay another day, go back to set, and just make sure we've checked everything out before we head out."

"Fine." Aubri said with a huff as she settled back on her remaining pillows. "Can you at least turn it down Dean, some people are trying to sleep."

"Some people are trying to sleep." Dean mocked as he picked up the remote and turned the volume down slightly.

And that's a wrap for Hollywood Babylon Part 1! I hope you liked it and I will try to get another update soon, I just never know when the laziness will hit me. As always, review at will (but if I get lots of reviews it is a scientific fact that I will update faster, I'm shameless I know).