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Chapter 6: Promises, promises

Kalley piled into the back of the Impala, three bags in her hands.

"Why don't you pack more things?" Dean added sarcastically, starting the engine.

She gave him a tight smile. "I'm a girl, I'm entitled to a lot of bags."

He nodded and headed away from her house. "You think Lucy will be back tonight?" she asked quietly.

Sam shook his head. "We're heading to a different motel, instead of the one we were just at. So if she comes looking, we won't be there."

"Thanks for letting the driver know we were switching motels before letting everyone else know." Dean said suddenly.

Sam winced. "Sorry Dean. Do you mind driving?"

Dean shrugged. " I guess not."

They headed to the motel they were staying at and Dean ran in to grab their things and check out with the motel manager.

Kalley winced, feeling the back of her neck.

"You alright?" Sam asked, hearing her and looking up in the rearview mirror.

She nodded. "I think I managed to scrape the back of my neck when I was cowering down the wall in the ally." She rolled her eyes at the lack of irony.

"You want me to look at it?" he asked.

She hesitated and nodded and Sam got out of the front seat to come into the back. What could be the harm of him looking at her neck? Besides, she liked the feeling her skin got when he touched her. His hands were warm and soft and they felt like velvet against her. He seemed to leave her skin feeling tingly and she wondered if his skin held some sort of electric shock.

Sam opened the back seat door and crawled in next to her and shut the door. She turned to look out the side window and he waited for her to move her hair.

He put both of his hands at the base of her neck and his fingers curled slightly over her shoulders. She sucked in a tight breath when his hand brushed against the bruised part of her neck.

"That hurt?" he asked.

She nodded and lifted her hair up for him to see the real damage.

"You managed to cut your neck. Must have been a jaggedly part of the brick wall. It's not major, you won't need stitches or anything. But Dean and I have some rubbing alcohol and bandages in the front seat."

He leaned over and popped open the glove compartment pulling out a small first aid kit.

"This'll hurt a little." He warned pouring some rubbing alcohol on a cotton swab.

She winced and held the exterior of the seat tightly as he lightly grazed over her cuts with the swab. He started getting all the dried blood and stopped new blood from emerging. He placed a white bandage overtop of the cut and waited for her to flip her hair back over her shoulders. When she did it covered up the bandage and it looked like she'd never been hurt. But as she turned around, there were tears making there way down her face. Sam knew that no matter what physical pain she could hide, the emotional ones never really went away.

He looked at her for a moment and he felt like an ass when she looked away from him. Why did he always have to hesitate with things? He finally got his hands to move and he lifted her chin and wiped her tears with his thumbs.

"You okay?" he asked.

She sniffled. "Is it stupid to say that I'm really worried about Lucy? I mean, I know what's she's done and it's horrible. But she's my sister. She's…" Kalley broke off.

"The only one you have left." Sam whispered, knowing the feeling. Sometimes, when him and Dean were out on the road it felt like they were the only ones on the planet. And that Sam had no one else but his brother.

She nodded as more tears cascaded down her pretty face. Sam didn't hesitate this time. He pulled Kalley into his arms and let her cry into his jacket as he held her tightly.

"You're not going to loose her okay?" Sam told her, lifting her from him. He saw Dean exiting the motel out of the corner of his eye and decided he should get back up front before Dean could make a scene out of this.

She nodded and tried smiling. It was watery and small but Sam couldn't remember a smile looking more beautiful. "Thanks Sam."

He got back out and Dean motioned him to look at him. He did so and Dean motioned to the back seat.

"Dude…did you just…?" Dean mouthed.

Sam's eyes grew wide. "No Dean." He said loudly. Sam rolled his eyes. He wondered when Dean ever thought with his damn upstairs brain, or if it was even on half the time.

When Dean finally pulled out of the parking lot, he had stalled with several looks between him and Kalley, Sam looked back at Kalley in the rearview mirror. She was leaning her head against the side of the car and starting to fall asleep.

Sam shook his head and shut his eyes for a moment. He should have never promised something like that to her. He knew in his line of work there was a very good possibility that her sister wouldn't turn out ok. And telling her that, that he couldn't save her sister and that she was basically alone, was something he couldn't bear.

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"She alright?" asked Dean as he pulled into another motel. He rubbed a hand over his face and yawned.

Sam nodded, glancing back at her. "Yeah, she's just tired. Worried about her sister."

"We haven't exactly talked about that. What are we going to do about her Sam?"

"Trap her, exorcise her." Sam said. It sounded like he had answered a question like 'how's the weather outside?'

Dean nodded. "Thank you 'Exorcism of Emily Rose' but I was leaning toward more as how are we going to have hold of her long enough to do it? Plus I don't mean to bring up that she threatened us with a 'you have no idea who were dealing with' statement."

Sam nodded. "Our best bet is to look through that book. Maybe we can lure her with it. She wants it pretty badly."

"But why?" Dean asked.

"Beats me."

"You know what else we can use as bait?" Dean asked. He waited for Sam to look like he had no idea what he was talking about. "Kalley."

Sam shook his head almost vigorously. "No, no way Dean. We are not using her."

Dean smiled. "I knew it. You guys did get into something when I was in the motel." He got out of the car. "You sneaky dog you."

"So now all of a sudden I have to sex with someone to not use them as bait?" Sam asked.

Dean shrugged. "Hey whatever floats your sailor man. Why don't you grab sleeping beauty there and I'll get the room."

Sam nodded and opened the side door although when he did that he hadn't realized she was leaning against the door. She jolted awake when he pulled the door away from her and she blinked, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.

"Sorry." Sam said. "Didn't mean to scare you. We're here though, Dean's getting us a room."

Sam motioned for her to give him her bags to carry and she followed him up to the main desk where Dean was waiting.

They all headed upstairs and Dean opened the door turning the light on. It was a bit smaller than the last motel but there was a bathroom, a small built in kitchen-ette and two beds.

"I call dibs." Dean said motioning to one of the beds.

Kalley smiled. "I'll flip you for it." She held a coin in her hands.

Sam smiled at Dean's expression. "How bout you sleep on the floor?"

"How bout you sleep in your car?" she challenged.

Dean chucked and shook his head. Sam really wondered how his fuse wasn't running out. Normally the crap Dean took from people was short lived. Maybe he was dealing with it because he knew she was kidding around, or maybe because he had eyes and could see she was hot. Dean didn't have many problems with women he thought were hot and Sam shook his head. He couldn't believe he was starting to feel a little jealous that Dean might have had the hots for Kalley. He needed sleep.

"Kalley and I can share. If that's ok with you?" he asked her.

Kalley nodded. "I'm not sharing with him." She smiled as Dean made a face.

"Good thing." Dean said as she went into the bathroom to change. "Wouldn't want to ruin you for other men!"

Sam and Dean got changed while Kalley was in the bathroom and Sam laid down on the bed while Dean switched with Kalley. She jumped in bed with Sam and smiled.

"I'm so tired and these sheets feel really good." She said climbing under them. "I love when sheets are really cold when you first lay down on them."

Sam nodded. But honestly as soon as she hit the sheets, they didn't feel so cold anymore.

Luckily he couldn't make much of an ass out of himself because as soon as her head hit the pillow, she was asleep.

He covered her with the thin sheet and laid on top of it and let the comforter be his blanket and covered Kalley with both. He felt better now that there was a sheet in between them. Dean crawled into his own bed and sleep welcomed both of the brothers.

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"Promises, promises Sam, don't make them if you can't keep them…."

Sam shot up in bed, Lucy's voice ringing in his ears. All he could think about was the promise he had made Kalley to help her sister and now she was haunting him in his nightmares. He glanced over at the soundly sleeping Kalley and Dean and laid back down, trying to get back to sleep.

Although something kept keeping him up. Maybe the nightmare hadn't been any old nightmare, maybe it was a vision.

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