Thanks so much for the reviews! I'm glad some of you thought the wall tease was a "satisfying" tease. So here is Part 2 of All Hell Breaks Loose Part 2, I hope you guys enjoy it!
They drove without stopping until they reached Bobby's house. The whole time they were in the car Aubri was silent, her mind racing over what had happened just before they left repeatedly. Dean had kissed her, like really kissed her. For a guy who didn't like chick flick moments he sure knew how to give a girl a proper kiss. Every now and then she would glance up at the rearview mirror, just to get a peek of his face, hoping she could figure out what he was thinking, but his face was unreadable. Little did she know, Dean was going over this kiss in his head as well. He still couldn't figure out why he had done it. Maybe he just needed to feel something or have a distraction, maybe he just wanted to get the taste of that demon bitch out of his mouth, whatever it was, that kiss sure had done the job.
When they pulled up in front of Bobby's house Aubri hopped out of the car quickly, not making eye contact with Dean as she rushed up the steps of the porch and into the house without knocking. Bobby watched her hurry past him and to the kitchen, "What the hell?" he mumbled as he went to shut the door. He stopped dead in the doorway though when he saw Dean and Sam on the porch.
"Hey." Dean said gruffly, not making eye contact with Bobby.
"Hey Bobby." Sam said, a lot happier that his brother seemed at the moment.
"See you're up and around." Bobby said, looking at Sam suspiciously.
Sam stepped into the house, "Yeah, well, thanks for patching me up." He said, patting Bobby on the shoulder.
"Yeah don't mention it." Bobby eyed Dean suspiciously as he walked into the house.
"Well Sam's better and we're back in it now." Dean said, voice rough. He knew Bobby was smart and that he would figure this out, it was only a matter of time. "So what do you know?"
They all walked into the kitchen where Aubri was sitting, downing a beer. When the three guys looked at her oddly she shrugged, taking another swig before speaking, "It's one of those days." She explained, "So Bobby, you find anything?"
"Well, there's something. I'm not sure what the hell it means."
"What is it?" Sam asked.
"Demonic omens, cattle deaths, lightning storms, they skyrocketed out of nowhere." Bobby pulled out a map and laid it on the table. Aubri leaned forward, resting her chin in her hands as she studied the map. "They're all around here, except for one place, Southern Wyoming."
"Wyoming?" Dean asked.
"Yeah, that one area is totally clean, spotless. It's almost as if…" Bobby trailed off.
"What?" Sam prompted.
"The demons are surrounding it." Aubri muttered, still squinting at the map.
Bobby nodded his head, "Exactly."
"But you don't know why?"
"No and by this point my eyes are swimming. Sam, you and Aubri take a look at it; see if you can catch something I didn't." Then Bobby looked at Dean pointedly, "Come on Dean, I got some more books in the truck, help me lug them in." He grabbed his coat and headed outside.
Aubri looked at Dean with raised eyebrows, suspecting that Bobby already figured out what he had done and was about to lay into him. When he met her eyes though she quickly looked away, blushing. "Yeah." Dean called after Bobby before following after him.
Once she heard the screen door slam shut behind Dean, Aubri leaned back over the map and squinted at it, trying to find something that would explain the demons lining up just outside this area. "So what do you think this could be Sam?" She asked, looking up at him and taking another sip of her beer. The bottle was almost empty and she was pretty sure she was going to need another one to be able to handle this day.
Sam sat down next to her, brow furrowed as he studied the map. "I don't know, could be coincidence, but I doubt that. There's gotta be something keeping them out of there."
Aubri looked for any kind of pattern on the map, the tiny lines showing the details of the landscape swimming before her eyes. Then she saw something that might be important. "Is there a pencil somewhere?" She asked, looking up at Sam quickly, eyes bright with excitement.
Sam stood up quickly and walked into Bobby's study, coming back with a pencil in his hand. "What is it?" He asked, getting slightly caught up in Aubri's excitement.
"I'm not sure it's anything, hang on a second." Aubri looked intently at the map and where the boundaries of the omens were. Carefully she drew an outline of the area that had been untouched by demons and studied that even closer. Near the edges of the outline she drew she could see the symbol they usually used for churches. There were five of them all around the edge of the outline, just inside where the omens stopped. She circled each of the churches and then slid the map closer to Sam. "What do you make of that?"
Sam studied the additions Aubri had made to the map and then shook his head slightly. "I don't know, but maybe it'll make sense to Bobby." He patted her on the shoulder, "Good job Aubs."
She smiled at him, proud that she had made some sort of a contribution. Before she had a chance to look at the map again, they heard the front door open. Aubri stood up quickly, wanting to be the first to show Bobby what she had found, but she stopped when she saw Bobby and Dean leading an older blonde woman in front of them. "Whose she?" The woman asked, nodding her head towards Aubri.
"That's Aubri." Dean explained, "It's kind of a long story." He led her over to the table and pulled out a chair for her as Sam cleared the map off of the table. Bobby sat down across the table from the woman and Dean went to stand over to the side with Sam and Aubri.
"Who is she? She looks familiar." Aubri whispered to Dean as she watched Bobby pour water out of a flask into a shot glass and slide it across the table.
"That's Ellen, she owns the roadhouse, or she owned it when there was one." Dean explained in a hushed tone.
Aubri nodded and watched as Ellen picked up the shot glass and spoke to Bobby, "Is this really necessary?"
"He's using holy water to see if she's a demon isn't he?" Aubri asked quietly, nervous and excited at the same time.
Dean nodded, "Yeah, it's kind of standard procedure around here when things get weird."
"Cool." Aubri said under her breath.
Aubri tensed as Ellen threw back the shot of holy water and, when nothing happened, she relaxed. "Whiskey now." Ellen asked as she set down the shot glass and slid it over to Bobby.
"Ellen what happened, how'd you get out?" Dean asked as Bobby poured the whiskey.
"Yeah, the place was a wreck when we got there, how did you make it out of that?" Aubri asked, leaning forward and listening intently.
Ellen looked up at them, "I wasn't supposed to. I was supposed to be in there with everyone else, but we ran out of pretzels of all things." She scoffed quietly as Bobby slid the whiskey over to her, "It was just dumb luck." She said before tossing back the shot of whiskey. "Anyway, that's when Ash called, panic in his voice. He told me to look in the safe, then the call cut out. By the time I got back the flames were sky high and everybody was dead. I couldn't have been gone more than 15 minutes."
"We're sorry Ellen." Sam said quietly.
"A lot of good people died in there and I got to live, lucky me." She said sadly.
"You mentioned a safe. Did the demons get in it?" Bobby asked.
"No it was hidden in the basement." Ellen pulled out a folded up map and spread it out on the table.
Aubri immediately noticed the big black x's marking the locations of the churches on the map and stood up to grab the map that Sam had just taken off of the table. She spread it out next to the map Ellen had laid out, "Look, he had the churches marked too." She said, pointing at the similar markings on both of the maps.
"What does that mean?" Dean asked, looking between Ellen and Aubri.
"I don't know, I just noticed it right before you guys came in with Ellen. I was gonna ask Bobby to take a look at it." Aubri explained.
"Hang on a second." Bobby said after looking at the two maps for a minute. He stood up and went to his study, looking through books. He brought a couple out with him, handing one to each of the people sitting around the table. "It's somewhere in here. Get lookin'."
As they flipped through the pages of the books, trying to find whatever it was Bobby thought he knew, Aubri looked up at Ellen. "I'm really sorry about your roadhouse Ellen and about all of your friends." Sincerity filled her eyes as she looked across the table.
"Thank you honey." Ellen said with a faint smile. "I remember bits and pieces of what Bobby's told me about your story. That's a tough hand to be dealt."
Aubri shrugged, looking down at the pages in front of her, "It didn't turn out too bad." She said quietly, looking at Dean, who was sitting next to her, out of the corner of her eye before focusing on the research again. This had to be the part she loved the most. The myths and lore and legends. All of it blending in with history and religion in a way that just made perfect sense to her.
"I don't believe it." Bobby said as he walked back into the room with an open book.
"What you got something?" Sam asked as everyone in the room turned their focus to Bobby.
"I've got a lot more than that. Each of these x's is an abandoned frontier church built by Samuel Colt."
"Samuel Colt as in the gun making demon killing Samuel Colt?" Dean asked incredulously.
"Yep, and there's more, he built private railroads running from church to church." Bobby pulled a pen out of his pocket and pulled the map towards him, "They just happen to lay out just like this." He connected each of the churches with lines that formed a star.
"That's a pentagram." Aubri said as the wheels in her head, and everyone else's, started turning.
"It's a Devil's Trap." Sam amended, "A hundred square mile Devil's Trap."
"That's brilliant." Dean said, eyes locked on the map, "Iron lines that demons can't cross."
"I've never heard of anything that massive." Ellen said in an awed tone.
"And after all these years none of the lines have broken, I mean it still works?" Dean asked.
Then it clicked, "It definitely works." Aubri said. "That's why the omens are all happening just outside of that area. The demons can't get in. They can't get to whatever it is Samuel Colt put in there."
"But there's nothing but an old cowboy cemetery right in the middle." Dean said, pointing at the map.
"What's in an old cemetery, what's Colt trying to protect?" Sam asked.
"Unless…"
"Unless what?"
"What if Colt wasn't trying to keep the demons out?" Dean asked everyone.
"What if he was trying to keep something in?" Aubri finished the question, looking at Dean.
Ellen sighed, "Now that's a comforting thought."
"Could they do it Bobby, could they get inside?" Sam asked worriedly.
Bobby shook his head, "This thing's so powerful you'd practically need an A-bomb to destroy it. No way a full blooded demon gets across it."
Aubri swore she could see a light bulb go off over Sam's head as he looked down at the table, "No, but I know who could."
"That Jake guy?" Aubri asked quietly.
Sam nodded, "Yeah, so we need to haul ass to that cemetery so we can head him off."
Everyone stood up and started gathering what they would need. Bobby passed guns and ammo to the boys while Aubri helped Ellen stock up on holy water. They weren't sure what they would need, but they weren't taking any chances, not on something this big. When they walked out to the cars Aubri stopped in front of Dean, "You aren't gonna try and make me stay behind where it's 'safer'?"
Dean shook his head, "Nah, I figure it's better to have you with us than tell you to stay behind and then have you all over the place trying to catch up with us. It would be safer if you stayed away, far away, from all of this, but you're too damn stubborn to listen to me."
Aubri smiled faintly, "I just know I can help and one of these times, I might be the one that means the difference between living and dying. Who knows?"
Dean chuckled and moved past Aubri to toss the bag he had been holding into the trunk of the Impala, "I'm sure you will be sweetheart. Now get in the car."
~TFS~
When they finally got about a mile away from the cemetery, they found a place to hide the cars and they geared up. Dean passed Aubri a gun while Sam filled everyone in on Jake, "Be careful you guys, he's got some kind of superhuman strength so watch out for that."
Dean nodded and turned to Aubri as Sam set off, leading the way for Bobby and Ellen. "Aubs, you steer clear of that guy, you hear me?" She nodded, looking up at him wide-eyed, "You stay put where we tell you to hide out and they only thing I want you doing is shooting that gun. Please don't go running after anyone or anything." He finished with a nod before turning to follow after Sam and the others.
"Dean?" Aubri's voice came from behind him. Her heart was racing as he turned around to face her, brows raised as he waited for her question. She quickly closed the gap between the two of them and grabbed onto the front of his shirt, pulling him towards her as she pressed her lips against his. Just as Dean realized what was happening and was about to reach out to pull her closer, she broke away, resting her forehead against his briefly, "Try not to get killed Winchester." She said breathlessly before letting go of the front of his shirt and walking off in the direction Sam had gone.
Dean stared after her for a moment, trying to wrap his brain around what just happened. That kiss hadn't been anything like the one before, but somehow it left him even more confused than the last one. He shook his head, "Focus Dean." He muttered to himself before walking after the rest of the group.
When they got to the cemetery, Aubri would only make eye contact with him if he spoke to her directly. Later, he thought to himself as he made sure she and everyone else were hidden before going to his own spot and preparing for the son of a bitch who had, however briefly it had been, taken his brother away from him. He heard the crunching of the dried up grass under Jake's feet and shifted slightly so he would still be blocked from his view. "Howdy Jake." Sam said, emerging from behind the gravestone where he had been crouching. Everyone else slowly followed his lead, emerging from their hiding spots, guns raised and trained on Jake.
Aubri's hands were shaking as she pointed the gun at the guy who had stabbed Sam and listened to him speak, "No, you were dead, I killed you."
"Yeah? Well next time finish the job." Sam retorted.
"I did!" Aubri flinched; she should have realized this would happen. Now Sam would know what Dean had done. "I cut clean through your spinal cord man. You can't be alive, you can't be."
Aubri watched Sam out of the corner of her eye and saw him look at Dean briefly. "Ok, just take it real easy there son." Bobby spoke up.
"And if I don't?"
"Wait and see!" Sam shouted.
Jake cocked his head to the side as he looked at Sam, "What, you a tough guy all of a sudden? What are you gonna do, kill me?"
"It's a thought."
"You had your chance, you couldn't."
"I won't make that mistake twice."
Jake started chuckling quietly and it sent shivers down Aubri's spine, "What you smiling about bitch?" Dean asked angrily.
"Hey you," Jake nodded in Aubri's direction, "Do me a favor, put that gun to your head."
They all watched in horror as Aubri shakily turned the gun to her head, "Aubri!" Dean said through gritted teeth.
All Aubri could do was stare blankly as she fought a war for control over her own body. Her hand brought the gun up to her temple and tears slipped out of the corners of her eyes as she fought against whatever it was that was controlling her.
"See Ava was right, once you give into it there's all sorts of Jedi mind tricks you can learn." Jake said smugly.
"Let her go." Sam commanded, focusing on Jake again.
"Shoot him." Aubri managed to get out.
"You'd be mopping up skull before you even got a shot off." Jake smiled, knowing he had them where he wanted them. "Everybody put your guns down, 'cept you sweetheart."
Bobby lowered his gun first, followed quickly by Ellen. Dean looked over at Aubri and she could see the conflict in his eyes. She shook her head slightly, she wanted him to fight, she wanted him to kill the son of a bitch who was doing this to her and who had hurt Sam. Her heart sank when Dean lowered his gun, shaking his head. Sam was the last to put his gun down. "Ok, thank you." Jake said, hesitating only a moment before turning quickly and running towards the crypt behind him. He stuck something in the lock and Dean and Bobby ran towards Aubri, pulling the gun away from her head just as her finger involuntarily pulled the trigger, firing off a shot just above her head.
Dean held her close to his chest for a moment and Aubri could hear multiple shots ring out as Sam shot Jake in the back. "Aubri go." Dean said, shoving her back towards where she had been hiding before Jake had shown up, "Go!"
Aubri watched in horror as Sam fired what was left in his gun into Jake's body, before creeping out from behind the gravestone and following the rest of them towards the crypt when the lock where the gun had been put into finally stopped spinning. "Oh no." Bobby said as he looked up at the doors.
"Bobby what is it?"
"It's hell." Dean rushed forward and pulled the Colt out of the lock just before Bobby yelled, "Take cover now!"
Aubri started backing away, but her retreat was sped up when Dean grabbed her arm and yanked her behind a gravestone, wedging her body between his and the granite. Aubri curled up as small as she could manage, clinging to Dean's arm as the doors to Hell burst open and an enormous cloud of black smoke exploded out of them. "What the hell just happened?" Dean shouted to Ellen and Bobby over Aubri's head.
"That's a Devils Gate, a damn door to Hell!" Ellen shouted back. "Come on we've gotta shut that gate!"
Aubri worked her way out from between Dean and the gravestone, running after Ellen, Bobby, and Sam towards the gate. Her heart was pounding in her chest, racing away at a rate she didn't know was possible. They struggled to shut the doors against the demons that were still racing out and Aubri pushed with all her might. She heard Sam yell Dean's name and staggered back as he let go of the door, leaving just her to close the left side. As she pushed she tried to look to see what had happened, but closing the door took all of her attention. Finally she managed to glance over her shoulder and she saw Sam pinned to a tree as Yellow-eyes crouched in front of Dean. Don't go running after anyone, or anything. Dean's words echoed in her head as she continued to push the door. She clenched her jaw as she decided what she had to do, sorry Dean, you knew I wasn't going to listen, she thought before looking up at Ellen and Bobby pushing on the other door, "Ellen!" She shouted, nodding at the door.
Ellen nodded and quickly made her way over, "Be careful honey." She said as she pushed. Once Aubri was sure Ellen had ahold of the door, she let go and tried to make her way over to where Dean was, keeping out of Yellow-eyes' line of sight. She picked up her gun as she passed it, knowing that it wouldn't do any real damage, only the Colt could do that, but hoping to at least distract the demon so Dean could get away. She knew this was probably a suicide mission, but at this point she would do practically anything that would keep him from hurting or killing Dean.
"Oh look, you're little girlfriend has come to save you, how sweet." She heard the demon say before sending her flying back over a gravestone with just a flick of his wrist. When she landed she hit another headstone, her skull cracking against the rough granite as her shoulder took the force of the landing, popping out of its joint with a sickening crunch.
"No!" Dean shouted as he watched Aubri hit the gravestone, arm bent at an unnatural angle and head lolling to the side.
He glared at the demon in front of him as it resumed what it had just been saying about Sam, "How certain are you that what you brought back is 100% pure Sam?" Dean made eye contact with Sam over the demon's shoulder, trying not to question his brother. "You of all people should know that what's dead should stay dead." Yellow-eyes continued, standing up, "Anyway, thanks a bunch. I knew I kept you alive for some reason, until now anyway. I couldn't have done it without your pathetic, self-loathing, self-destructive desire to sacrifice yourself for your family." He said as he slowly raised the gun to point it at Dean.
Aubri struggled to pick up her head as her vision slowly came back to her. She could see Yellow-eyes pointing the gun at Dean, ready to pull the trigger and kill him, "No." she whispered as her vision started to fade again. As her vision went black, she thought she saw a man who looked oddly familiar grab Azaezel and then nothing.
~TFS~
After his Dad faded away, Dean rushed to where Aubri was laying. He sat her up against the gravestone she had crashed into and gently brushed her hair out of her face, "Aubs wake up, come on Aubri, wake up." He begged, shaking her carefully. "Don't give up on me now Blondie, wake up!" He reached up, cupping her face in his hands as he looked at her. Her face was peaceful, but the thought that he might lose her like he did in that dream world tore through his brain and he rested his forehead against hers, closing his eyes. "Please wake up."
"Quit breathing on my face like that Winchester." Aubri said roughly as she slowly woke up. "Your breath is almost as bad as Folsom's."
Dean opened his eyes to see her smiling weakly at him. He pulled her to him roughly, wrapping his arms around her and only letting go when she yelped in pain because of her shoulder. "Come on." He said quietly, helping her to her feet and then wrapping his arm around her waist tightly as he led her over to where Sam and the others were standing, looking down at the body of the man who Yellow-eyes possessed. Smoke was still seeping out of the gunshot wound when they stopped, "Well check that off of the to-do list." Dean said, smiling at his brother.
"We did it?" Sam could hardly believe that it was over.
"Not alone though."
"Who was that guy I saw grab Yellow-eyes?" Aubri asked, looking up at Dean.
"Our dad."
"Do you think Dad really, really climbed out of hell?"
Dean led Aubri to stand next to Sam, "The door was open, and if anyone was stubborn enough, it'd be him."
"Where do you think he is now?"
"I don't know." Dean shook his head, looking down at the body in front of them.
"I kind of don't know what to do. I mean, our whole lives have been spent prepping for this moment and now that it's here I don't know what to do." Sam said in disbelief.
"I do." Dean said nodding and letting go of Aubri long enough to kneel down over the body, "That was for our mom, you son of a bitch."
After that they walked back to the cars, Bobby and Ellen were way behind them because they stayed to take care of the bodies. Aubri sat on the hood of the Impala as Dean inspected her shoulder, "Looks like it's out of joint." He assessed, "I'm gonna have to pop it back in and it's gonna hurt. Can you handle that?"
Aubri nodded, sure that it couldn't hurt any worse than it did now. As Dean told her what to do with her arm and then steadied her, getting ready to slip her shoulder back into joint, Sam walked over to stand next to him, "You know, when Jake saw me, it was like he saw a ghost." Dean clenched his jaw and jerked Aubri's arm abruptly and she yelled in pain as the joint popped back into place. Then it was as if the pain dissipated completely, but the worry she felt knowing what Sam was about to bring up lingered in the pit of her stomach. "You both heard him, he said he killed me."
"I'm glad he was wrong." Dean said smoothly, turning to lean against the hood between Aubri and Sam.
"I don't think he was. What happened after I was stabbed?"
"I already told you and Aubs told you the same thing."
"Not everything though." Sam accused.
"Sam we just killed the demon, can we celebrate for a minute?" Dean begged, emotion creeping into his voice.
Tears welled up in Aubri's eyes at Sam's next question and she knew Dean wasn't going to be able to keep his secret from Sam much longer, "Did I die? Did you sell your soul for me like dad did for you?"
"Oh come on! No!" Dean protested.
"Tell me the truth. Dean tell me the truth."
"Sam…" Dean said brokenly.
That was all Sam needed to hear to confirm his fears. "How long do you get?"
"A year, I got one year."
"And you knew about this?" Sam looked Aubri in the eye.
"Come on man, she didn't know about it until after the deal was already done." Dean said protectively as the tears started to flow freely down Aubri's face.
"You shouldn't have done that, how could you do that?" Sam asked accusingly.
"Don't get mad at me. Don't you do that." Dean said, turning to face Sam completely. Aubri put her hand on his arm, trying to calm him down, but he shrugged it off. "I had to. I had to look out for you, that's my job!"
"And what do you think my job is? You save my life, over and over, you sacrifice everything, don't you think I'd do the same for you? You're my big brother, there's nothing I wouldn't do for you. And I don't care what it takes, I'm gonna get you out of this. Guess I've gotta save your ass for a change."
"Yeah." Dean said with a slight nod, breaking Aubri's heart because they both knew that if he tried to get out of this, Sam would only die all over again.
Ellen and Bobby walked up then, "Well a hell of a lot more than Yellow-eyes got out of that gate." Ellen said matter-of-factly.
"How many do you think?" Dean asked.
"Hundred, maybe two hundred. It's an army." Sam explained, "He's unleashed an army."
"Hope to hell y'all are ready, cause the war has just begun." Bobby said gruffly.
"Well then," Dean said with a smile, "We've got work to do."
~TFS~
Bobby and Ellen went on ahead of them while Dean, Sam, and Aubri stopped at a motel along the way to get some rest. Aubri's shoulder was starting to throb along with her head as she looked at her reflection in the bathroom mirror. She looked horrible, better than she did before she had washed the dirt and blood away, but she still looked like shit and she couldn't even lift her arm to pull her hair back out of her face. Despite that though, the bumps and bruises were something she was getting used to during her time with the Winchesters. She walked out of the bathroom with a faint smile on her face. "What are you smiling about?" Dean asked as he looked over at her from the T.V.
"Nothing, just… we did something important; we made a difference didn't we?" Aubri said as she sat down on the edge of the bed he was lying on.
"Yeah, yeah I guess we did." He said, returning her smile. "Even if we did let out a truckload of demons into the world in the process."
"Pfft, details." She said, waving her hand, "Also, I was thinking about how funny it is going to be when you have to put my hair up for me."
Dean cringed, "Give me a demon any day of the week. Can't Sam do it when he gets back with the food?"
Aubri shook her head, "My arm got messed up when I was trying to help you, so you get to help me now." Aubri regretted saying that when she saw the guilt flood Dean's eyes, "Anyways, I want it out of my face now and Sam only left a few minutes ago."
"I told you to stay put, you should have listened." He said gruffly as he took the pony-tail holder out of her hand.
Aubri turned around so that her back was facing him, "Yeah, but we all knew I wouldn't listen." Her heart pounded in her chest, so loud she swore Dean could hear it as he gathered her hair in one hand. She thought about kissing him before they had walked to the cemetery and suddenly grew very self-conscious as a blush crept across her cheeks. She didn't know if they should talk about it. She knew she wanted to, but she figured he probably wouldn't, that would qualify as a "chick-flick moment", but she knew if she didn't get it out in the open, she wouldn't be able to act like a normal functioning person around him. "Dean, about before the cemetery…"
"There, does that work for you? Now that I've done your hair we're supposed to have pillow fights and talk about boys right?" He said, joking as he finished with her hair, avoiding the topic of discussion. Dean knew where she was going with this and he didn't want to go there. It would open a whole can of worms that they just didn't need to get into. If they didn't talk about it, they could keep on going like they had before. If they did talk about it, things would change.
"Dean…" She pressed, until she saw the glint of panic in his eyes, then she changed her mind. She had been about to say she had felt something when they had kissed, both times. There was no denying that there had been something, a spark, between them. A spark that had threatened to turn into an all-consuming fire until she realized that maybe he hadn't felt it or didn't want to admit he had felt it. "I… I just wanted to say I got caught up in the moment. It didn't… it didn't mean anything. I just thought that we were gonna die and it just happened." She couldn't meet his eyes at first and when she finally looked up at him, she chewed on her lip with worry. "That's all."
Dean searched her face and he could tell that she didn't mean what she said, but he realized she had given him an out and he took it. "Yeah, the moment." He said nodding. They sat in silence for a moment, staring at each other, both of them feeling the shift in the balance between them. Even though what really needed to be said hadn't been, they both knew something between the two of them had changed. "You wanna watch?" He asked, breaking the silence and nodding towards the T.V. where a re-run of some soap opera was playing.
Aubri exhaled the breath she had been holding in a faint laugh, "Sure." She settled back against the pillows. After a few more moments of silence she turned to look at him, smiling at the expression of complete interest on his face as the gravity of what they had done finally weighed on her, "Hey." She said, getting his attention as he turned to look at her, his brows raised, "You did it. You guys finally did it." Her smile grew even wider as he smiled back at her.
Dean slid his arm behind her and gently pulled her close to his side, giving her a light squeeze. "Yeah, we did it."
Yes I know it got a little cheesy at the end, but after all of the angst I just need to throw in cheese for my own sanity. Ok so I haven't even gotten started writing the next chapter and I am going to be at the lake practically all next week so I don't know how much writing I can get done. Plus midterms are stretching out into eternity. If I can get at least 15 reviews on this chapter I can guarantee an update by 2 weeks from today so like March 20th. I hope you guys liked it!