"Get much planning done, Autters?" Darcy asked as the couple joined their table for breakfast. Autumn glared at her dropping down into the empty chair.
"I'm good at multitasking, Darbrain." Darcy glanced at Dean when his thoughts flared up, he was actually slightly proud and she quickly batted away the thoughts when she discovered that the reason was they'd planned while in the throws of other activities.
"I'm not asking," Teenie said reading the look on Darcy's face and returning to swirling the butter into her syrup.
"So did you two actually plan anything?" Sam asked handing a menu over.
"Yes," Dean said a little indignant. "Aut and I will go talk with Marty"
"Do you think that's so smart?" Sam interjected. "You're people skills"
"Are questionable, at best," Darcy finished for him, saving him a glare from the hunters in question.
"Fine, I didn't want to deal with scared-shitless-Chewbacca witness anyway," Autumn shrugged. "How are we breaking down, though? The three of you want to stick together?"
"Yup, yup, yup," Teenie chirped. A butch looking waitress came to the table to tend to the late arrivals, Athena made a face when her sister ordered her coffee black, and all five waited for the woman to leave before continuing with their discussion.
"So you've got Smuckers"
"Smackles"
"Smackles, and we'll go visit the most recent scene," Dean summed up. Darcy nodded her head and pushed her pancakes around her plate boredly. She hated eating breakfast when it came to hunts, something about having your stomach full and then running around like a crazy woman made her feel sick. She looked up from her musing to see four identical looks aimed her way.
"What? I'm not allowed to play with my food now?"
The exchanged another set of looks and Darcy rolled her eyes, picking her nearly empty glass of coke. Sam looked at it for a few moments before he asked in an awestruck tone.
"Didn't we get that for you, like 2 minutes ago?"
She nodded her head happily and drained the remaining liquid, bouncing happily in her seat. Athena grinned at her and began to shovel food into her mouth, nodding thanks at the buff waitress as she left the table. Autumn and Dean had slipped into a private conversation and were now whispering to each other suspiciously leaving the younger three to resume a more normal talk.
Sam had a frown on his face and judging by the way Darcy was grimacing something was going on down their link. Athena didn't mind Darcy being one of the Special Kids, but the whole 'link with Sam' thing made her uneasy, not just because they could have private conversations in their heads, but because it made her feel like an outsider. She placed her fork back down and gave Sam's hand a reassuring squeeze.
"You ok Sammy?"
"Yeah, just a head-ache."
She bit her lip worriedly, handing Sam a glass of water from the table. He took it from her with a weak smile. Darcy groaned and picked up her coffee, sculling it down quickly, heedless of the temperature.
"You sure it isn't a vision?"
"God I hope not. Those things are like having an off-tune twelve piece marching band of elephants waltzing through your head."
"Dar, I think you've had a bit too much caffeine. Let me take that off you and we can go chat to Marty."
Darcy gave Teenie an annoyed look but relinquished her coffee and stood up, tossing down some money on the table. She waved her hands in front of the older two and finally cleared her throat loudly. Dean looked over to her and raised an eyebrow.
"We're heading off. I suggest you check where the body turned up before heading over to where the person was taken…"
"Valover, we do know our job."
"Fine, I was just saying."
Dean nodded his head in agreement and then turned back to Autumn, grinning as he shoved some of his food into his mouth. Darcy rolled her eyes and then slipped out of the booth, making her way over to the door. Autumn called over to her before she managed to exit.
"Valover! You need keys?"
She shook her head and pulled her keys out of her pocket, waving them around slightly.
"Nah, I'm good. Hurry up you two!"
Darcy smirked as she turned into the driveway of a small lodge. For the past 10 minutes that it had taken to get there the younger hunters had amused themselves by playing 20 questions that was angling more and more towards Truth or Dare. She turned the music down slightly when the questions became directed at her.
"Darby! Sam with a shirt or without?"
Darcy snorted at the sudden protest emanating from Sam and she turned her head slightly to the side. She had banished both into the backseat, after telling them both that fighting over the front was not allowed.
"Teenie, why are you even asking that? Without shirt!"
After a few moments of 'I told you so' from Teenie she rolled her eyes and turned the music back up, cursing loudly as her car rolled over a rock. She glowered at the dirt drive before her and bit the inside of her cheek and she parked her car in front of the house. She turned back to the others and tossed them an ID.
"Right, so we're Wildlife Researcher's from the Primatology department. Hey, I do my research! Will you two cut that out?"
She glared at the older two and clipped her ID onto her jacket. She ignored the bouts of mirthful laughter and opened the car door, slamming it hard behind her. Sam and Athena exited and came up behind her, the blonde throwing her arms around Darcy in a hug.
"Oh Dar! You of all people know we're only kidding. You should have eaten- grouchy pants."
Darcy suppressed the urge to roll her eyes and shrugged Teenie off as she knocked on the door, giving her best smile as a man opened it.
"Hi, I'm Dr. Weir these are my associates Dr's Mckay and Carter. We're from the Primatology department and we heard about the recent attack. We have a few questions if you would be so kind."
The man nodded and the three entered the room.
Autumn crouched down onto the dirt, her eyes scanning over the disturbed ground. Off to her side Dean kept watch, his eyes darting over the foliage and through the trees.
"You find anything Aut?"
She stood up and brushed off her knees. Walking over to her boyfriend and leaning on a nearby tree.
"Just disturbed soil and not much else. Could have been done by anything."
Dean didn't answer his focus instead on the large hairy thing standing a few meters away, sniffing at a large log. The two immediately went into defense mode, crouching down and peering at it through the trees. It was quite tall, being over six feet in height, covered in thick brown hair. The only parts that weren't covered in the fur were its face, palms and feet instead replaced with pink fleshy skin. It gave a small grunt and shuffled over to another tree, easily swinging on a branch like a seven-year old on monkey bars. Dean quickly started back-tracking away from it, pulling Autumn along after him. Autumn allowed herself to be dragged along, turning once a safe distance away and running along behind Dean. She smirked leaning into the Impala once the reached it watching Dean scan their surroundings. He turned to look at her satisfied that it wasn't going to follow. "Well, I guess it has our scent, now."
"Which is always helpful," Autumn agreed. "Think about what it did for us with the werewolves." Dean's eyes snapped to the silver bullet she still wore around her neck, and she didn't need to be a 'special child' to know his thoughts had just turn jealously toward particularly one wolf.
"We're not using you as bait, babe." He decided, rolling her eyes Autumn looped her fingers through his belt hoops and pulled him to her.
"Not afraid of wittle ole big foot sending me to kingdom come? Even when you'll be there with a nice shot gun to kill him?" she teased stepping up on her tip toes to kiss him.
"Afraid? Never. Concerned? Maybe," he answered when she released him. "We know for sure what our friend is, so lets go put the nerd patrol on study duty and kill him." Autumn said circling around and waiting for him to unlock her side of the Impala. "So when do I get a spare key to this baby?"
"When do I get one for Scarlet?"
"That ain't happening anytime soon."
"Right, its official. We are never interviewing another person under the guise of being Primatologists"
Darcy and Athena flopped into the nearest booth, both groaning as they rested their heads against the back of the seat. The interview had started off quite well, until the man decided to test their knowledge on primates. Thankfully Sam had paid attention during some of his high school classes and managed to save them from being arrested. Sam grinned and sat down, waving a breadstick at the two women.
"You so owe me."
Darcy smiled sweetly and batted her eyelashes at him, confiscating the breadstick from his hand.
"Sammy, I think sleeping with you cancels us owing you anything. I mean we could just toss you out and send you to bunk with Dean and Autumn."
Athena snorted and petted his hand comfortingly. Sam opened and closed his mouth a few times before he glared at Darcy and ate some bread. Darcy rolled her eyes and waved happily as the two older hunters appeared through the door. Autumn and Dean took a seat beside Sam, causing the other three to shuffle around to accommodate them.
"So how did Bigfoot go?"
Autumn shrugged and helped herself to some bread, waving it in front of Dean's nose. He took it off her and put it in his mouth, swallowing quickly. The younger hunter's exchanged glances and then sat back.
"The usual. We found it, you guys get to stake out the nearest library and find a way to kill it."
Darcy groaned loudly.
"I hate libraries. They're so stuffy and boring. Can't I do something fun?"
Athena turned to Darcy and raised an eyebrow.
"What do you consider fun? That doesn't involve the male gender."
Darcy paused.
"Uh… shooting things? That's fun! Fine, I'll go to the damn library."
"That's my girl Dar."
Darcy shot a glare in Teenie's direction and sipped some more coke, placing it down firmly after she had sculled the rest ten seconds later.
"You so owe me."
Sam grinned.
"I think sleeping with you cancels out us owing you anything."
Darcy looked at him as the other hunter's stared. Sam looked slightly guilty for a moment before he stood up and stretched, pulling Athena up beside him. The older two swiveled their heads to face her and she cursed internally, standing up slowly.
"That was so not funny. We'll give a buzz if we find anything."
A/N: Sorry it took so long to update. Lack of brain power tend to impede things. Enjoy anyway!