Written By: xxPyRaxx

Chapter Five

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Ever since the little 'talk' with John, Jack felt like a little bit of weight was been lifted off her shoulders. And she liked that feeling. Dean could tell by the way she walked to school. Her back was straighter and she wasn't bowing her head in shame as much. But Dean was still making that frown turn upside down, but he was having a hard time with that task.

That morning, Jacklynn looked very different. Maybe it was because she actually brushed her hair and got 2 wash it. Or maybe that she had a little bit more confidence. She had confidence...until Thomas Bradley and his friends were in sight. Her posture went back to how it was before and she fell back behind Sam and Dean.

"Well, well. Well" Thomas said as he and his friends came up to them "We haven't seen you it quite a while. What have you been up too?"
Jack didn't reply; just cast her eyes to the ground.
"Hey, I asked you a question Street Rat" Thomas growled and went to punch her in the gut, but Dean stopped him.
"Leave her alone."
"What are you? Her body guard?" one of his friends asked Dean.
"Yeah, so back off" Dean shot back and pushed his hand away.
Thomas's two friends grabbed Sam and held him back.
Oh god, Thomas and his crew were going to hurt them just because she didn't answer a simple question.
"Leave them alone" she said quietly but Dean turned to her because he heard.
"What did you say?" Thomas demanded as he came closer to her.
"I said leave them alone, they didn't do anything to you" she said louder.
That resulted a punch to her gut and she doubled over.
"That should teach you not to mouth back" one of the friends said smartly.
The next thing that Jack did was amazing. She straighten back up and with all of her might, she wracked Thomas on the side of his head with her hard-covered binder and textbook. He fell to the ground.
Everyone looked at her in amazement.
Jacklynn Montgomery fought back for the first time.
"Get her!" Thomas ordered.
And his friends did and without a second thought, she took off and climbed a high tree.
Jack still couldn't believe it. She stood up for her friends.

Jacklynn climbed pretty high in the tree and Thomas was trying to get to her.
"Get down here, Street Rat" he spat as he jumped to get her. She just climbed higher.
"L-leave me alone" she squeaked "I didn't do anything to you."
"Listen you pathetic little-" Thomas was cut off my Dean.
"Leave her the hell alone!"
"Stay out of this" he shot back.
While Thomas was preoccupied with Dean, she stepped on his fingers. Thomas let out a painful scream and fell out of the tree. Dean and Sam snickered when the school bully screamed like a girl.
"Not so tough are you?" Dean challenged.
"Shut up" he said as he brushed himself off after he got up.
"Just leave her alone, got me?" Dean poked the bully in the chest.
"Watch yourself Winchester, you could be next" he spat out than he and his henchmen left.

Jack was still in the tree, shaking quite a bit.
The brother went up to the trunk of the three and looked up. There she was on the third highest branch.
"Wow, you're a good climber" Sam complimented.
Jack gave him a tiny smile "I-is it okay to come down?"
"Uh, yeah" Dean said and they watched her come down slowly. She used the branches below her like a stair to get down and she finally jumped the rest of the way.
"Hey, Jackie" Dean said as he wrapped an arm around her and his brother's shoulders "Guess what." He had a smile on his face.
"What?" she picked up her bag and gently hoisted it on her shoulder than picked up her books.
"You just fought against the school bully" Sam replied with the same smile as his brother.
"I-I guess I did, huh?" she blinked, she just realized it. With Dean's help, she could even stand up to her own father.

It was lunch the next day. Her standing up to Thomas didn't work out like she hoped. Sam, Dean and her sat at an empty table in the cafeteria. After much coaxing, Sam got her to eat an apple. But every few minutes, Thomas would chuck pieces of his lunch at her.
"You like your teachers Sam?" Jack asked the youngest.
"Yeah, Miss. Featherstone is pretty mean though" Sam answered.
"Had her in the 9th grade too, she's mean at the beginning but the more you get to know her the more fun she is."
"Really?" Sam asked.
"Yeah, just ask her about the rubber snake incident" Jack replied.
"Okay?" Sam said a little unsure.
Suddenly, a piece of apple came flying and hit her on her arm. She winced when it hit a bruise.
"You okay?" Dean asked.
"Uh, yeah" she said with a smile that didn't reach her eyes "I'm fine."
"You sure?"
Another piece hit her back and she winced once again she decided not to lie through her teeth this time.

Jackie heaved a sigh "No, I-I'm not. Thomas is throwing his lunch at me."
"Alright that's it" Dean muttered and went to stand up but Jack stopped him.
"No, don't" she hissed.
"Jackie?" Sam asked.
"Are kidding me?" Dean sat back down "You just stood up to them."
"I know" she replied "Just follow my lead" she stood up and grabbed the water bottle that Dean bought for her and started heading over Thomas' and his friend's table.

"You know" Jackie said when she was in front of all of her school bullies "I'm getting' pretty sick and tired of you and your little crew here picking on me. And I have a little poem for you that I thought up just for you Thomas.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue," she walked behind him as she unscrewed the cap off of her water bottle "I'm really tied of you and your crew, so I'm terrorizing you" and she dumped her in tire bottle off water onto his head. And she did it with a smile.

Thomas gasped when the cold water fell on his head and dripped on his shoulders.
His crew just watched and so did the Winchesters but they were also trying to stop themselves from snickering.
"I hope you liked my poem, cause it's true" she said and than walked away.
All the students in the school's cafeteria starred at the guys.

"Wow, Jackie" Sam said with excitement "That was so cool."
"Did you see the look on their faces?" Dean asked as they caught up to her.
Jack laughed nervously "Yeah, but I'm shaking like crazy" she held up her hands for them to see. She was right, her hands were shaking like crazy.
Sam looked up at Dean because he had no idea what to do.
"You'll be fine Jackie" Dean told her as he held her hands in his "You just have to calm down, that's all" and he kissed her on the lips.
"Can I ask you two a favour?" she asked rather nervously.
"What?" Sam wondered.
"I may have stood up to Thomas and his crew" she replied "But can you help and teach me how to stand up to my father?"
Both Sam and Dean smiled. They thought she would never ask.
"Yes, of course" Dean agreed for the both of them.

The rest of the day went better than expected. Jacklynn thought that Thomas and his crew would terrorize her back, but they didn't. In last period, they bullies didn't even look at her. Jack looked over at Dean who was seated in the seat to her right. They both smiled at each other.
Dean quickly wrote something down a piece of paper before folding it up into a small square and handing it to her without the teacher realizing.
She carefully opened it so it wouldn't make a sound before reading what it said:
I want you to come over to my house for tonight. I'm sure my dad won't mind.
Jack looked at him and shook her head in disagreement before writing:
I can't, my dad will punish me worse if I'm not home for another night. And handed the folded paper back.
Within minutes she got an answer, it read: Please come home with me tonight. You'll be safe there.
I would love to but I can't. My dad is gonna punish me for not coming home last night.
Before they knew it, the bell rang to go home and Jack was dreading it.

"Why are you going home if you dad is just going to hurt you?" Sam wondered as the Winchesters watched her pack her bag.
"Because, eventually I'm going to get punished" she explained.
"Jacklynn Montgomery" a voice over the intercom announced "Please come down to the office, you father is here to pick you up. Jacklynn Montgomery, please come down to the office."
"I gotta go" she looked at them "See you later...maybe" and headed towards the office. To the Winchesters, it felt like she was walking to the gallows.

It was quiet in the office when Jack came in. The first thing she saw when she came in was her father. She gulped in nervousness.
"Thought I would pick you up today" he said when he saw her.
"He already signed you out so you may go" the desk lady said before she went back to her work.
"C'mon" her dad grabbed her arm roughly and yanked her out of the school and into the car. His grip was enough to give her bruises.

Jack was literally thrown into the house by the roots of her hair and landed on her hands and knees hard.
"Where the hell were you last night!?" he demanded.
"I-I" she couldn't get the words out.
"I-I" he mocked "You're pathetic" he kicked her in the ribs.
She cried out in pain as she fell onto her side.
"Answer me! You piece of worthless trash!" he kicked her in the ribs again. She grunted.
She held back tears and croaked out "Leave me alone!"
The house grew silent as he starred at her with both shock and anger.
She never once in ALL of her life, talked back to him.
"What did you just say?" he asked through gritted teeth.
Jack pushed her self up "I said. Leave. Me. Alone."
She got a punch in the face for saying that and than he bagged her head against the wall three times.
"STOP!" she screamed as dug her long nails into the sensitive flesh of his arm.
He yelled out in agony. She pushed herself up onto her feet with difficulty as he pulled his belt from the loop holes of his pants. She could taste the blood from her nose when it slipped onto her lips. Her ribs hurt but she didn't know if they were broken or not. She ran for the front door to get out of the house. She let out a squeak when she heard the buckle from the belt hit the wooden floor where her foot was just was.
He gave up on the belt and grabbed the strong duck tape that was on the table and went after her.

She was mere feet from the door when he grabbed her from behind. She fought against his hold to get out. He kicked her feet from under her and she landed on the floor again. He quickly taped her ankles tightly together and taped her wrists together when she went to swat his hands away.
"Leave me alone! Leave me alone!"
"Can't do that, you were a very bad girl who must be punished" he held her back against his chest as she squirmed.
"No, no...Please" she begged" Tears came flooding down her cheeks "Don't. Please-"
She was cut off when he ducked tape her mouth shut.
He easily got up from off the floor, picked her up in a fireman's carry and dumped her into her room before locking it behind him, leaving a sobbing tied-up Jacklynn Montgomery on the floor.