A/N: Sorry for the wait, here's the latest chapter for you!
Stalking was unusually tiring. In Katie's opinion that is. Following someone who doesn't know it and trying to keep it that way was really hard. She had to say in the past month she learned a lot about the Winchester brothers. Sam was the smart one, always had a book, but Dean was the complete opposite. He was a woman chasing, borderline alcoholic. But both shared some traits. They were both diligent; where ever they went they kept their eyes open to the people and places. She could tell that it came from years of training.
Katie stuck to the shadows, unsure of when to make her presence known to them. They were smart, they weren't just going to welcome her with open hands. Everything had to seem like a coincidence. Which is why she currently stood above her bike… correction her now smoking bike.
"I'm sorry" Katie said frowning down to the bike. But this was all part of the plan. "Sometimes you have to make sacrifices for the greater good" the bike looked so pitiful as it leaks something as well. "Don't look at me like that" she ran a hand across the seat. "You know we've been through some good times, and I promise one day I'll make this up to you" She heard the sound of an engine and turned to see the black car in the distance. "Right on time boys" Ruffling her hair a bit she takes a step forward and holds out a thumb.
"What's that?" Sam asks noticing something smoking in the distance. Both he and Dean squint to get a better look. "I think that woman's bike is broken" Sam glances over to his brother who seems to have a totally different expression.
"Hey, she's kinda hot" Dean comments and Sam turns this time noticing something about the woman.
"Wait" Sam says leaning a little closer in his seat. "Is that who I think it is?" There was no doubting it once they got closer.
"I think it is" Dean says pulling over to the side of the road a couple of feet from the woman. They sit there looking over to her and she just stares back at them holding a hand over her eyes as if trying to see who they are. "It's our favorite stalker witch"
"How many times do I have to tell you, she's not stalking us" Sam replies looking over to his brother. "You're just being paranoid"
"Yeah, whatever" Dean says looking back over to Katie.
"This is a coincidence though" Sam says and Dean just shakes his head.
"Let's hope so" Dean replied before getting out of the impala, Sam doing the same. Katie looked over to the boys and couldn't help the smile that came to her face. This was a bit of a change, actually coming face to face to them.
"You have got to be kidding me" Katie says with a chuckle. Sam and Dean look to her just as confused. "Out of all the people who could've stopped, I mean the world is riddled with murders, robbers, hell even demons, but out of all of them you two are the ones to stop when I'm in a crisis"
"Katie" Dean greets first and Katie turn to his. "It's good to see you too"
"How about I pretend I didn't hear that sarcasm" Katie replied and Dean only shrugged. She turned to the youngest Winchester. "Sam"
"Hey, so this is weird" Sam replied and Katie only nodded in agreement. "So what's going on?"
"As you can see" Katie says turning to her bike. "My bike and I are fighting and she's winning" Katie looks back over to Dean who's eyes are on her for a moment before he snaps out of it. "Was he just—" Of course he wasn't just checking her out. Katie shakes her head. "Now there's smoke and stuff dripping" Dean walks over to get a look at the bike, crouching down to get a look at the leak. "I think it's oil" this time Katie's voice is closer and Dean turns to see her crouched down beside him. The smell of engine oil and honey passes by his nose and he swallows hard before standing back up to his feet and putting some distance between him and the witch.
"Well why don't you just use your witchee powers to fix it?" Dean asks and Katie only shakes her head. "It was very popular misconception that all witches could just say a spell and fix all of their problems. The truth was that wasn't always true.
"Powers?" Katie says sarcastically. "Wait, I'm a witch so I can do a spell and fix my bike?" she points at him and grins. "Why didn't I think of that?"
"So I'm going to take a wild guess from all the sarcasm that you can't?" Sam asks and Katie looks over to him.
"If I could, I would've already" Katie replies and she can tell from their expression the suspicion was already starting to settle in.
"Why not?" Dean asks and Katie sighs turning to him. She really hates talking about her powers and the hows and whys of them. She always felt it made her too open, and she really didn't know these guys that well. "Something wrong with your powers?"
"No" Katie replied running her fingers through her hair. "It's just sometimes magic can be tricky" she notices the confusion. "Look using magic for one's own personal indulges can end badly in some cases which is why I try to avoid it" It wasn't a complete lie.
"Personal indulges?" Dean asks and Katie turns to him and glares. She expected questions, but this was just getting ridiculous. "So what, you can't poof in a box of chocolates to yourself"
"In a matter of speaking, yeah" Katie replied. "Look it's called personal gain, my powers have a purpose and using them every time my car breaks down isn't its purpose"
"What is their purpose?" Dean asks and Katie turns to him.
"Believe it or not Dean they were meant to do good, help the helpless and punish the evil and all that jazz or whatever" Katie replied. "Using my powers otherwise could have some consequences"
"What kind of consequences?" Sam asks and Katie shakes her head trying to think of an example.
"Uh, ok let's say I used my powers to fix my bike then while driving the bike I lose control and crash. That sort of bad stuff." Katie says looking between the brothers. "Okay are there any other questions or are you here to help me?" Sam and Dean share a look before turning back to the woman. "I've been sitting here for a long time, my phone has no signal, and I'm hungry" A sudden sound of thunder roars around them and Katie chuckles to herself before throwing her hands up in frustration. "And now it's about to rain"
"Hey, chill ok" Dean says and Katie glares at him. "Excuse us for being a little suspicious, we don't know a lot of witches who have do's and don'ts with their powers"
"Well if I'm not mistaken you actually don't know any witches but me" Katie stated. "And if I'm right, which I usually am, you only know one good witch" she places her hands one her hips and gives him a look. "So are you going to let me use your phone to call a tow or what" Dean doesn't say anything and Katie sighs loudly before walking over and placing herself right in front of him, once again bringing them too close for Dean's liking. "Please" Dean shakes his head before reaching into his pocket and snaking out his phone. Katie holds out her hand but Dean doesn't hand it over. "What?"
"I don't have a signal either" Dean says before looking over to his brother. "what about you Sam?" Sam pulls out his phone as well and checks.
"No signal" Sam replies before looking over to his brother. "Think we're in a dead zone or something"
"No idea, but it's about to be a wet zone in a minute" Katie replied. "You guys think you can just drop me off to the nearest gas station and I'll just use the phone there" She looks over to Dean. "And then we can finally get out of each other's hair—again" Dean smiles over to her and she thinks she's got him.
"That's gonna be hard" Dean replies and Katie looks back to him confused. "See that would entail you riding with us in my car, which just isn't going to happen" Katie scoffs.
"So what you're just going to leave me here in the middle of nowhere when it's about to rain?" Katie asked. She looked over to Sam who looked as upset with his brother than she did. Katie turned back to Dean. "Why, because you're afraid of your car getting my witchee cooties?" The guilt had got to be getting him, at least that's what she was hoping.
"Give us a second" Sam said walking over to his brother and pulling him aside.
"Don't even" Dean started. "Don't let the cute face and the big brown eyes fool you Sam" Dean glances over to Katie who's looking back over to them looking impatient. "she's still a witch remember, we do not trust witches"
"No, I remember Dean, we don't trust evil witches" Sam replies glancing over to Katie who seemed to be kicking at the dirt. "And nothing she's done seems evil to me, I mean what is the possible end game here?" Sam turns back to his brother. "Kill us, because she's had chance after chance to do that" Dean looks over to Katie and had to agree with his brother. But something still wasn't right.
"Well maybe it's all part of some big elaborate—"Dean says looking over to Katie who's now just standing there with her eyes closed and a hand on her head as the wind blows passed her. Dean's mouth is once again suddenly dry as he turns back to his brother who's looking at him confused. "Some big elaborate plan of hers" Sam just gives his brother a look and Dean knows that it's no use.
Katie looks over to the brothers who are deep in conversation about her. For a moment she thinks that it was no use, that the guys who were taught not to trust anyone but each other were just gonna leave her to the coyotes. Suddenly Sam and Dean turn to her, Sam smiling and she knows the youngest Winchester won this one.
"Fine" Dean says as he and Sam walk over. "We'll give you a ride, but if you try—" Katie holds her hands up in surrender.
"I know, I know" Katie sighs. "If I try anything you'll bust a cap in my ass" she looks up to the sky as dark clouds start moving in. "Now can we go before this storm hit" Katie just turns and walks over to her bike and pushes it behind a bush. She grabs her bag off the ground and follows after Dean and Sam to the impala.
"Bust a cap in my ass?" Dean says shaking his head before looking over to his brother. "Who talks like that?" Sam just chuckles before walking over to the car as well.
Once inside, Katie can't help but admire the car she'd been tailing for a month. She looks over to Dean and can't help but feel a little proud of herself. She didn't know the man well, but she knew this car was his prized possession and he was letting her inside. Maybe there was more to Dean Winchester than she knew. She smiled at the thought, but then just shook it away.
"Ok" Katie says clapping her hands. Sam and Dean turn in their seat to see her smiling wildly. "Anyone know any road trips games?" Both brother's just shake their head as they turn back around.
"This is going to be a long drive" Dean says before cranking up the engine and pulling off.
Soon the rain started in and it was a little heavier than anticipated. Dean squinted his eyes trying to see through the windows.
"I didn't know it was going to rain this hard" Katie said her head leaning forward to look out the windshield.
"Dean" Sam said looking over to his brother. "Maybe we should find somewhere to pull over, at least until the storm is over"
"What do you think I've been doing this whole time?" Dean asked keeping his eyes on the road. He liked to think of himself as one awesome driver but even he wasn't going to take any chances in this weather. "There's nothing on this road, it's like we're in the middle of nowhere"
"Wait" Sam says spotting some lights up ahead. "I think I see something" Dean and Katie follow his eyes, both with two totally different reactions.
"Awesome" Dean sighs as he pulls up in front of the house.
"Ok" Katie says. "Creepy house in the middle of nowhere doesn't really scream sanctuary" she looks between the brothers. "Do we really think this is a good idea?"
Dean scoffed at her use of the word 'We'. They were not a 'We' and they were never going to be a 'We'—ever.
"Well we" Dean said gesturing between him and Sam. "Think it's raining ass outside" Katie shakes her head. "We" he once again stresses a finger to him and Sam. "Also think we don't want to be in this car with someone who talks entirely way too much" Dean turns in his seat and looks up at the house. "So we're going inside that house, but if you feel so strongly about it, don't let us stop you from finding a nice house that isn't in the middle of nowhere princess" Katie just huffed angrily before sitting back in her seat.
"You know what fine" Katie snapped before reaching for her door and stepping out of the car. "Let's just walk into the beginning of every horror movie." They all run up to the door and notice the sign the sits in the window.
"Hey, look it's a bed and breakfast" Sam reads before looking back to Dean and Katie. "So three strangers showing up won't seem too weird" Sam reached forward and pressed the doorbell that was loud even from the outside. They stood there for a moment, but no one opened the door.
"Well look at that, no one's home" Katie said turning toward Sam and Dean. "You know I'm sure there's a place further down, a place that has neighbors and doesn't house a family of cannibals"
"Not so fast there princess—"
"Will you stop calling me that" Katie snapped.
"There's other cars here" Dean said pointing to the cars the were parked in the driveways and in front of the house. "Someone's here and I'm not driving in that rain" Dean reached forward and pressed the doorbell again.
"Dude if it's that big of a deal I will driv—" Katie was cut off by creaking of the door opening. They all turned to see a short, plump woman , with red hair smiling at them.
"Well, hello there" the woman said looking between the three newcomers. "Look at you, come on in before you catch your death out there" the woman moved aside letting the Winchesters and Katie inside. Katie had to admit the warm heat from the fire place and the aroma of hot chocolate and cinnamon was a lot better that the cold and rain outside.
"Yeah, I think you were right" Dean whispered over to Katie as they followed behind the woman. "This place is a regular Satan's laboratory" Katie rolled her eyes at the man.
"Can I get you something" the woman asked turning back to them. "We have, coffee and warm milk and my own special hot chocolate"
"No thank you but we could use some rooms until morning Miss…." Sam said to the woman.
"Where are my manners." The woman said with a light chuckle. "My name is Lorraine Harris but everyone calls me Lori." She looked around the place with a smile. "Me and my husband run this here B&B." Lori walked around the front desk. "Let me check to see if there is anywhere we can fit you three in."
"Any thing you have will be fine" Sam said and the woman smiled over to him before looking into a big book that sat on top of the desk. They waited patiently for reply as the woman searched for them a room. Katie felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand up and she looked over her shoulder.
"Well there we go" Lori's southern voice brought Katie back to attention. "It's your lucky day, we have one more room available" Katie could've sworn she just misheard. She pushed Sam out of the way and brought her hands to rest on the front desk.
"I'm sorry I think I have water in my ears or something" Katie said. "Did you just say one room?" the woman just nodded with a smile. "Ok so that's not gonna work" Katie pulled the book from the woman's hands and began looking through it. "There has to be another room somewhere, I mean doesn't have to be fancy"
"She's right" Dean said pushing Sam out of the way so he was now at the front desk. "I've been trapped in a car with this woman, and there's definitely no way I'm sharing a room with this wit—" Katie looked up and glared at him. "This whippersnapper" Sam and Kati just looked at him and shook there heads.
"Well I'm sorry" Lorraine said plucking her book from Katie's hands. "But we only have one room available, a double" she noticed the three sharing looks. "I think you should know the next motel is a couple of hours away and believe it or not this storm is supposed to get worse"
"Thank you" Sam said pushing himself between Katie and Dean. "One room will be fine, we'll just have to bear with it until the morning" he looked between his brother and their new witch friend. "Right guys?"
"Right" Dean and Katie both mumbled. Lorraine smiled as she reached behind her grabbing their keys.
"Why don't I show you to your room" Lori said before walking around the desk. "Just follow me up"
"This is going to be a long night" Katie said straggling behind when that strange feeling once again hit her. She turned this time when she could've sworn she heard whispering. She stood there for a moment trying to hear it again, but nothing happened.
"Hey!" Dean's voice called and Katie turned to see him, Sam and Lori staring down to her. "You coming or what?" Katie rolled her eyes before climbing the steps as well as they were lead to their room. Katie stopped at the top of the stairs looking around one last time.
"Yep, there is definitely not right about this place" she whispered to herself before following after the others.
"Well here you are" Lori said after opening the door to their room. They all walked in and noticed the hideous floral wall paper that covered the walls. "Now the bathroom is over there, and there's some fresh towels in the closet" she pointed to a very old television with rabbit ears. "I doubt that old television is going to be any good in this storm" she looked around the room. "What else am I miss—oh yes, dinner will be served in about an hour" she smiled. "We're having my special stew" Katie chuckled and the woman looked over to her.
"Everything you make is special huh?" Katie asked looking out the window. "Special hot chocolate, special stew" Katie looked over to Loraine. "I bet you're real special huh?"
"Uh, I guess" the woman answered confused by the question.
"Uh, thank you so much" Sam said as he began to usher the woman out. "Well we better get settled"
"Right, well then I'll leave you to it" Lori replied before walking out of the room. Sam closed the door and turned back to their room of awkwardness. Katie sighed before walking over to the old phone and bringing it to her ear and Sam walked over to the bathroom. Dean just stood there for a moment before going over to sit on one of the beds.
"C'mon" Katie said pressing buttons, but there was no sound. "Well this is perfect, no dial tone"
"The storm must have messed up the phone lines" Sam suggested has he came out of the bathroom, towel in hand. He tossed on to his brother and one to Katie.
"Thanks" Katie said catching the towel as they all began to dry off. "Yeah I guess" she walked over to look out the window again. "Man my bike is going to be a mess when I get back t it"
"You're right there" Dean said and Katie turned to glare at him. "I'm talking totally damaged, like it probably won't even be a bike anymore"
"Thank you for that Dean" Katie said. "You have a way with words, I mean they just make me feel so warm on the inside" she threw her towel at him hitting him in the head.
"You're welcome" Dean replied before lying back on the bed and closing his eyes.
"And I think that is enough bonding" Katie said before looking over to Sam. "I'm just going to go downstairs by the fire" Sam nodded.
"Sounds like a plan to me" Dean replied and Katie sent him another pointed look. She shook her head before turning and leaving the room, slamming the door on her way out.
Dean opens his eyes and looks over to see Sam looking back at him shaking his head.
"What's with the look?" Dean asks and Sam only shrugs his shoulders.
"Nothing, it's just all this sexual tension is kinda making me sick" Sam replied lying on the other bed.
"Seriously Sammy, not this again" Dean replied turning away from his brother. "There is no sexual tension between me and that woman, I feel nothing but annoyance mixed with distrust and—" Dean scoffed. "You know what I have no idea why I'm explaining myself to you" Dean shook his head and cut his brother a look. "Sexual tension? Ha! I think you've been inhaling way too much special hot chocolate"
"Whatever you say Dean" Sam said closing his eyes. "Question though, what color are my eyes?" The question seemed to throw Dean for a loop because he sat up a bit from the bed and looked over to his brother.
"What?" Dean asked.
"My eyes, what color are them?" Sam asked still keeping his eyes closed.
"Wha—I don't know green?" Dean answered. "What does that have to do with anything?"
"Nothing it's just you've known me my whole life and don't know that my eyes are brown, not green" Sam said. "Yet I shouldn't let Katie's big brown eyes fool me"
"What?" Dean asked and Sam just laughed to himself.
"Nevermind Dean" Sam said before turning over on his side to try and get some sleep.
"Just so you know I'm seriously confused right now" Dean said.
Katie walked down the hall of the B&B, still upset about everything that was happening that wasn't part of the plan.
"I can't believe him" she mumbled to herself. She hated that she was letting Dean get under her skin the way he was. "What a jerk" Katie kept walking until something stopped her right in her tracks.
"HELP ME!" A voice scream. Katie whirled around trying to find it's source. "PLEASE,HE'S GONNA KILL ME!" She stopped when she thought she knew the direction and came from and she went running like a bat out of hell.
"Hello!" she called hoping whoever was screaming could heat her voice. "Where are you!" Katie ran hoping to find someone, but she was only lead to a door at the end of the hall. She walked over to the door and slowly brought her ear to it trying to hear anything from the other side.
Everything was silent, as Katie stood there her ear pressed to this door, trying to calm her breath. She could've sworn the voice came from inside this—
"Can I help you with something" the voice nearly made Katie jump out of her skin.
"Where the hell did you come from?" Katie asked looking around the empty halls. She only shook her head before turning back to the door. "Whatever, look I heard screaming, someone in desperate need of help and I think it was coming from inside." She looked back over to the man. "Can you go find someone with a key so I can make sure whoever it was is ok?"
"Well there's no need for that, seein as I gotta key" the man said and Katie looked back over to him. "But I don't reckon hearin any screaming down this here hall" he looked back to the door. "And I doubt the people on the other sid of that door will appreciate someone just barging into their room.
"Wait, you're Lorraine's husband?" Katie asked and the tall, lanky man nodded.
"Yes, I'm Jimmy Harris, but everyone around her tends to call me Jim" he said before turning back to the door. "Now, I'm sure if we know on the door, whoever is in here will be just fine" Jim raised a fist and knocked lightly on the door. A moment later the door swung open revealing a pretty big guy. He looked annoyed at the sight of Katie and Jim.
"Yeah, can I help you?" he asked and Katie only glared trying to peek inside the room.
"Actually, no you can't help us with anything" Katie said before pushing passed the man inside the room. "I heard a woman screaming for her life" the room was empty and Katie turned back to the man. "Where is she?"
"Honey" a voice sounded and they all turned to a confused young woman who was coming out of the bathroom. "Who are these people?"
"Uh, hi I—" Katie started. "I heard a woman screaming and I thought—" she shook her head. "Are you alright?"
"Screaming?" the woman asked both annoyed and confused. "Look I don't know what you're talking about, but I want you to get out of our room now" Katie watched as the woman walked over to her boyfriend and he brought a protective arm around her.
"Ok lady I don't know what you've been smoking, but it's time for you to go" the boyfriend said pointing toward the door.
"I'm so sorry" Jim said as he and Katie headed for the door. "I promise nothing like this has ever happened and will not happen again" He looked over to Katie. "C'mon miss, let's leave these fine people alone" Katie only nodded before following the man out of the room, and having the door slam behind them. Katie turned back to the angry inn keeper.
"Look, miss I don't know where you're from, but around here we do not like people lying to get attention" the man snapped.
"But I—" Katie looked back over to the door. She had no way to explain this. Something definitely was going on in this place. She turned back to Jim who was waiting for his apology. "Right, I'm sorry I guess the whole lack of sleep thing is getting to me, why don't I just go back to my room" Jim nodded and watched as Katie walked back down to the hall.
"Alright, now I'll see you at dinner" Jim called after her. Katie sighed and plastered on a smile before turning.
"Yeah, I'll—" she stopped because the man was suddenly gone" She looked around the hallway, but it was totally empty. Katie only shook her head before almost speed walking back to her room. She pushed open the door. "Alright guys!" she slammed the door causing Sam and Dean to almost jump from their bed.
"What the—"
"Ah" she held up a hand toward Dean. "I knew there was something wrong with this place, my witchee senses have been tingling ever since I stepped foot in this place" Sam and Dean looked back over to her confused, their brains still trying to wake up and catch up to what was going on. "We have a problem"
Of course they did.
A/N: Well there you go. Thanks for reading!
Questions:
tigereyekum : To answer your question, the story is pretty much the same, there's just some things I wanted to do differently with formatting and the amount of detail on somethings.
Hey anymore questions from anyone, feel free to ask. I'm always looking for ways to be a better writer and I can do that if I can help clear up any confusion or just plain curiosity!
