Chapter Six: Connection

"The whole mind thing's more of your area, Sam," Dean said. "I think I'll stay here."

Sam nodded and walked with Peyton outside. They walked around the back of the small building and stopped.

"How am I supposed to learn to control it if I need to be made for it to do anything?" she asked, standing in front of Sam.

"How did you control your shadow last night?" he asked her calmly.

She thought for a minute about it. "I searched out for the connection between me and my shadow. I don't know how I knew what to do."

He smiled. "If you're born with a power, you'll learn how to use it. Now, I need you to find that connection again."

She nodded. "I'll try." Closing her eyes, she searched her mind and found that small dark corner where her shadow resided. She slowly opened her eyes and surprisingly, still felt the connection.

"Did you find it?"

"Yeah," she said, concentrating her whole mind on that bond.

"Then you should be able to make it do something. Try telling it to stay where it is and then you move."

She nodded and concentrated on the link. She noticed that she didn't need to speak out loud to her shadow like she had last night. She told it to stay through her mind, and then took a step to the right. She took a fearful glance down at the ground and noticed that her shadow hadn't followed.

"Oh my God! I did it!"

Peyton smiled and looked at Sam, who smiled back at her.

"You did it once and now you just need to practice with it," he told her.

She nodded, ready to work more with her shadow and their connection

"How'd it go?" Dean asked them as Sam and Peyton came back inside around noon. He was sitting down at the bar, sipping a beer.

"It went alright," Sam said, sitting beside his brother. Peyton sat beside Sam.

"I can control it all the time now," she assured him.

"Good. Because I know that I'd never want a girlfriend who's shadow could kill me," Dean said smugly.

Sam turned to his brother and gave him a look to kill. Peyton couldn't help smiling.

"So what now?" Jo asked, coming over to them.

Peyton sighed. "I need to get back to school. People have probably put out missing person ads for me already."

Dean and Sam laughed.

"Sam here can drive you back," Dean said, handing his keys to his brother.

"Um..okay," she said, standing up. "It was nice meeting you, Dean."

"Yeah," he said, giving her a small smiled. "Just next time we meet up, don't have your shadow try to kill me."

She smiled at him. "I won't."