The End Of A Trustworthy Road

Okay back to the story. So the night before my car was fixed Dean and I did one last gig that had pissed me off because Dean kept yelling and ordering me around. He always had to be the leader which was okay with me as long as he didn't push it. So while we were in the middle of the hunt I had 'accidentally' shot his leg with my shotgun full of rock salt, so you can only imagine how angry he was with me. Giving me the silent treatment on the ride back he waited till we got back into our motel room to start yelling at me.

"What the hell were you thinking back there!?" He followed behind me as I walked pass our beds and stopped in front of the bathroom.

"You act like I really shot you." I turned to face him and his eyes widened.

"You did!"

"No I didn't, its rock salt …Its not that bad."

"Not that bad? I'm limping."

"Your still standing." I chuckled.

Dean flexed his jaw and shot me his pissed off look which still to this day turns me on. I smiled at his reaction and flashed him my pearly whites before turning back around and walking into the bathroom to clean up from the hunt.

"Lia." Dean said in a low, dry voice.

I popped my head out from behind the bathroom door at Dean.

"What?

"How are you doing that?

"Doing what?" I furrowed a brow.

He pointed in front of him by nodding his head forward and I followed his gaze. Apparently Dean saw me split in two because when I walked away Ail had parted from me and was now standing in front of him. Ail turned to face me with an accomplished look but said nothing. I titled my head in confusion due to the fact that this had never happened before.

"Ail?" I whispered gently as if scared to frighten her away.

Instantly her smile faded and then she vanished. Dean and I stood there both shocked and confused. Last time I felt this perplexed was when she first popped up in my life at age six.

"I thought you were the only one that could see her?" Dean broke the silence.

"Yeah…something's wrong." I paused for a brief second in order to catch my breath, it felt as though I had just run ten miles up hill. "I don't…feel so…good." I inhaled deeply between words.

Dean heard the exhaustion in my voice and broke his former gaze from where Ail had stood.

"You don't look so good."

Dean rushed over to my side as my legs gave out and caught me before I could hit the floor.

"Whoa, c'mon get on the bed."

Dean lifted me up before he would wrap his other arm under my leg and lift me like a sleeping child. He laid me on the bed where I saw my reflection in the glass lamp on the night stand. My eyes widened at what I saw… or what I didn't see.

"Dean… bring me to the mirror."

"Why?"

"Just… Do it… please."

Dean helped me walk to the bathroom mirror only to see me with a deadly look written in my skin. Just a moment ago I was as fit and energetic as a new born puppy and now I had two large dark circles around both eyes and such pale skin that if it got any whiter I'd be transparent. Kind of reminded me of my Halloween makeup that a friend had done on me once, she made me into a zombie with scars and stuff, so cool. But anyway, in my reflection there had been something missing, Ail wasn't beside me in the mirror.

Dean stood behind me watching me begin to panic

"Lia calm down."

I started hyperventilating as I stared into my reflection yelling for Ail to pop. Something was wrong and I felt and looked sick, and I knew it had something to do with Ail.

"AIL!!!" Warm tears trickled down the side of my cheeks. I placed both hands on the side of the mirror and yelled into it again.

Dean came up behind me trying to pull me away before I could rip it off the wall, suddenly a strong furious strength conjured up inside me. The heat of my blood increasing rapidly throughout my veins, the heat emitting from beneath my skin, my heart beat turning from a hard rapid pace to a slow almost nothingness beat. My skin began to burn at the touch of Dean's hands and my mind felt as though it had drifted off into the abyss of my subconscious . Before turning to face Dean I saw my eyes turn an ice blue with a vast empty look hidden behind them. Dean had seen my eyes as well, that's when he stepped back trying to recall if I had ever mentioned such a thing happening to me before. With a harsh whip of my head I somehow telekinetically threw Dean across the bathroom into the towel rack. It didn't feel like I was doing anything but I also knew it wasn't Ail doing this. It was something inside me, something that snapped at the pure perplexity of the situation.

Facing back into the mirror ignoring Dean and focusing as hard as possible for Ail to show up the lights began flickering, a strange wind entered the room knocking things off their shelf. My eyes grew brighter with every flow of energy that surged throughout the room. Ail's figure slowly appeared in my reflection, but she was fighting back, her eyes the same as mine and her strength just as equal. My mind which was free of thought suddenly was distracted by the question of why Ail was putting up a fight. That simple second threw me off and I went collapsing to the floor. Every bit of energy gained diminishing with each second as my blood cooled down and my heart beat returned to a normal pace. I could feel my mind leaving my body, flowing out of every pore. Within another second I was standing beside myself, looking down at my clearly tired and beaten body.

"That was awesome!" I yelled. But my smile quickly faded. "My first out of body experience." I said aloud to myself with a frown. "Now how do I get back in?"

Dean rose from where he was thrown and I watched him lift my numb body to carry me back to the bed, speaking in a smooth tone to wake me.

"It's not going to work genius… why couldn't you be the one born with the 'shinning'? " I said with a hint of disappointment.

""Lia, c'mon kid wake up." Dean's voice came out in a tight strangled sound, as if his throat closed to the size of a small needle. He was worried. I remember the look on his face, just as confused and concerned as a child would be on his first day of school, he didn't know what to do. I sat there with him wondering how to wake myself up for a good ten minutes until my eyes shot open… my body's eyes that is.

"What the fuck!" I jumped up from where I sat.

Time out, am I confusing you? Good because that's how I felt.

Alright, so I freaked out. I'm over there bugging out because I wasn't in my body yet my body was functioning with someone else talking and moving it. I wasn't possessed I knew that much, but I didn't know what in god's name was going on. Then I found my answer in my eyes. A small glint of light focused just right on my eyes to let me recognize that Ail was in there.

"I'm guessing that never happened before." Dean spoke with hesitation, not wanting to be thrown across the room again.

"Thanks for stating the obvious."

"Should we be worrying?" he asked, his voice becoming disturbed as if he knew something was up.

"No, I'm okay. I feel better now."

"You stupid bitch give me back my body!" I growled. To my surprise Ail looked up at where I was standing. "Oh shit you can hear me. Can you see me too?" I was more curious then worried. Up until that day I never had a reason not to trust her. She shook her head yes while Dean was not looking.

"That's not fair I could never see you."

Ail smirked at me and rose from her seat.

"You want to tell me what happened? Why you… lashed out on me." Dean snapped her attention away from me prying for an answer to why he was flung across the room.

"Later, I want that shower now." She began walking to the bathroom.

"Lia… LIA."

"Answer him idiot!"

"Oh, what?"

"Don't you think this is a little to important to put off?" His eyes narrowed down on her.

"I've been through a lot in the past hour Dean, I'm tired and dirty. After I shower, please."

"I'm never that kind to him."

Dean stood starring at her, or me… what ever, until she disappeared behind the bathroom door. I followed behind anxious for her to tell me how I can get back into my body. She swung the door shut right when I stepped in.

"Whoa!" The door went right through me and snapped close. "Whoa." I repeated this time more astonished. "Cool, okay so what's the plan?"

"There is no plan."

"Well then how am I going to get back in my body and you back to… well where ever you belong." This time my voice had a full seriousness to it.

"Your not. Stand in the mirror, I cant see you all that clear."

I walked behind her and spoke through the mirror. "What do you mean I'm not?"

"Exactly what the sentence means Lia. See while you got to live it up I had the pleasure of standing on the side lines and watching. Much like you are now. I don't know what it feels like to get hurt, feel the hot steamy water coming from the shower head or the touch of a mans skin. You don't know what you had."

"Had? That's past tense hun-"

"You've had twenty four years to live, and what do you do?" She paused as if actually waiting for an answer so she can cut me off and continued. "You waste your days hunting, not once in the past eight years have you yet to take a break and really enjoy the pleasures life has to offer you. Instead you explore death that in fact would have killed you if I were not there for you."

"Well you are and I save a lot of people doing this job."

"Did you ever think that maybe there not suppose to be saved? Maybe your interfering with fate."

"Then fate wouldn't have brought me there in the first place to save them now would it."

"How do you know that? You weren't even suppose to be born, you my friend were a mistake. The reason why your parents argued all the time. They didn't want you." Her voice came out in a cold tone that vibrated with anger.

"Shut up." I said in a faint muffled whisper. She had hit a nerve.

"You're the reason your fathers dead, why your mothers in jail… you to blame for Trent's death."

"I SAID SHUT UP!"

That same energy I had felt just before passing out suddenly reentered my body. The mirror in front of both Ail and I shattered into sharp deadly shards that began to fall into the sink and floor. Several of them stopping in mid air one by one until all of them stood motionless and gravity ceased.

"Give me back my body!"

"Hmm, freezing time already are we?" She spoke with a proud tone that overshadowed the worry behind it. She was clearly taken back by how quick I was picking things up. "Took me six years." She muttered.

"I'll keep it this way until you give me back my body!" I found myself constantly yelling as Ail kept her cool.

"Lia, when are you going to learn? I've been controlling time for years. I can easily out maneuver any new trick you've possessed and turn time back on with the blink of an eye… literally." Her last word coming out in a taunting triumphant tone.

The shards once again took motion and fell to the floor where they broke into even smaller pieces. Soon after the noise had ceased Dean feverishly knocked on the door.

"Ail! Are you okay?!" Dean screamed through the door. I don't know why she didn't pick up that he used the name Ail instead of Lia but she didn't, which was a good thing.

Ail made her way over to the door and opened it to tell Dean she was fine.

"I'm oka-" She paused as she stared down the barrel of Dean's colt python and trembled for a brief second before gathering herself.

"That feeling is called fear." I mocked with a disgusted face. "How's that for feeling?"

"Dean… what are you doing?"

"Holding a gun up to your face."

"May I ask why?"

"I don't talk like that!!!!"

"Well for one you answered to Ail, two your to kind to me, three Lia doesn't speak that… proper, and lastly Lia would have been explaining to me how awesome having telekinesis would be."

"Bingo!" I laughed.

"You know for someone who has been with Lia more then half her life you sure don't know how to impersonate her."

Ail's face went cold and her eyes spelled out how pissed off she was toward the fact that Dean knew me so well.

"Shoot me you shoot her." She said in a calm steady voice.

"Oh I know, I owe her for my leg."

I paused. "Wait, what?" I asked knowing full well he could not hear me.

Dean dropped his hands aiming down at my bodies legs and pressed the trigger. The shot echoed throughout the room and the bullet pierced my right thigh. My body collapsed to the floor from the pain that traveled from my leg to my entire body.

"Ah! You Bitch! Owwwwwwww! I thought you wanted to feel!!!" I cried. I stared down at my poor poor leg, which now had a scar.

"Dean, this is going to leave a bruise."

"Lia?" He questioned suspiciously.

I looked up at Dean and back down at my leg. "I'm back in my body," I whispered to myself. "Oh yay." I leaned forward on the floor and gripped onto my legs giving myself a hug and shook for left o right with joy. Yes I know I act like a child but you'd be happy too if you were in my shoes.

"Yea, that's definitely you." He eased up lowering his weapon and knelt down next to me, this time lifting me up because my leg went numb from the rock salt he shot at me. Not to mention the fact that my body was still beat up from the hunt we did, that whole telekinesis thing, and the whole switching of the body scenario.

While lifting me up and carrying me like a child Dean slightly lost his grip but caught me before I dropped right back to the floor.

"Whoa. Careful Prince."

"Like I said before, its not like your not heavy." He smiled. "And don't call me prince!"

"Now your calling me fat…Prince?"

Dean sat me upright on the bed and pulled a chair up next to me.

"Why did I get rid of Ail, she was so much nicer to me."

"Because, I'm prettier."

Dean just stared for a good moment before letting out a small chuckle. "You look the same. How can you have so much humor at a time like this?"

"You rather me be hysterical?"

Dean shook his head and went on. "So, are you going to tell me what happened or what?"

"Surely."

Okay that's it for this chapter. Sorry this took so long and its not even that good. My sincerest apologies. R&R por favor.