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DEAD MAN'S BLOOD

A man was turning the pages of his journal, whilst nursing an empty glass. He was so focused on his journal that it took the barmaid 2 attempts to get his attention.

'Mr Elkins' she said 'would you like another?'

The man- Mr Elkins looked up and smiled 'yeah, thanks Beth'.

Whilst Beth was getting Mr Elkins drink another man at the bar said to her 'thought they caught the Unibomber'.

Beth smiled 'yeah, poor Mr Elkins lives all alone up the canyon, sits here every day going through his papers, making his little notes. He's a nice old man, he's just a nut'.

Beth then proceeded to pour a shot for Mr Elkins and handed it to him.

DING!

The noise of the charm above the door was barely audible above the lyrics of The House Is Rockin', Elkins heard it though, he looked around to see who had just come in, there were four of them; one woman the rest men. They were surveying the room before they walked up to the bar; Elkins watched them the whole time.

'What will you have?' Beth said when she noticed the newcomers.

'Jack all around, leave the bottle' the woman replied.

Beth nodded before asking 'you hungry?'

To which the woman replied 'we have dinner plans'.

Nodding again Beth turned to get a bottle of Jack.

She placed it by the woman and then turned to Elkins 'can I get you something else Mr Elkins?'

But he had already left the bar.

Half a mile away Elkins was running back to his cabin, he was looking behind him fearfully and was struggling to place the key in the lock. Breathing out a breath he wasn't aware he was holding Elkins burst through his door and dumped his papers on his desk.

The hairs on his back stood on end. Elkins turned around slowly to see the woman from the bar.

'It's been a while. I gotta say you look old' she smiled.

'What do you want?' Elkins replied before throwing a knife at her. It hit the dead centre of her chest.

The woman looked down and pulled out the knife, 'damn. You can do better than that'.

Elkins eyes widened and he hurried into the room behind him, locking it and putting a heavy bookcase across it. He then turned to his cupboard, opened it revealing his safe. He smiled and began putting in the combination. 'Come on come on' he said.

BANG! Behind him he could see the bookcase shaking.

Finally the safe opens and he swiftly removes a metal box from it. He opened it up to reveal a very, old fashioned gun. He quickly started to load it whilst the banging continued.

Suddenly two men who were with the woman at the bar jump through the roof and leapt over the desk trying to grab Elkin. His gun fell out of his grasp as the bookcase fell down allowing the woman to walk into the room. She bent down picking up the gun and examined it. She laughed when she finished examining it 'nice gun' she said 'wouldn't do you much good of course. Boys, we're eating in tonight'.

The men smiled at Elkins before jumping on him, fangs protruding from their mouths.

Dean was sitting on an uncomfortable chair in a café and was flipping through a newspaper, whilst Sam was on his laptop.

'I wish she would answer her god damn phone' Dean said when he got out his and saw that he had no messages 'she's as bad as Dad'.

Sam smiled he knew Amelie was someone who Dean thought of often and he also knew that she liked to annoy Dean. Knowing her she probably was watching them right now laughing at the fact that it was the 30th time that day that Dean had checked his phone and it was only 11am.

'Well dude. Not a decent lead in all of Nebraska. What have you got?' Dean said whilst folding his paper.

'Well, I've been scanning Wyoming, Colorado, and South Dakota. Here. A woman in Iowa fell 10,000 feet from an aeroplane and survived' Sam answered, showing his laptop to Dean.

'Sounds more like 'that's incredible' than 'Twilight Zone''.

'Yeah'.

Dean smirked 'Hey you know we could just keep heading east. New York. Upstate. We could drop by and see Sarah again huh? Cool chick man, smokin' Dean whistled. 'You two seemed pretty friendly. What do you say?'

Sam smiled at his brother, trying to set him up, it was a nice gesture, but he was still a bit sore from Jess' death. Dean was probably going to try and find Amelie, if he was trying to hook him up with someone.

'Yeah I dunno, maybe someday' Sam replied. 'In the meantime we got a lot of work to do Dean, you know that'.

'Yeah all right' Dean said before not too subtly looking at his phone.

'You know it would of gone off if she texted you?' Sam said.

'What d'ya mean? I wasn't looking at my texts; I was, uhh, checking the time'.

Sam gave Dean his puppy dog eyes.

'Fine' Dean said and Sam smiled Dean can never resist the puppy dog.

'It's been over 3 months since we heard from her; she said she'd see us soon'.

'You're actually worried'.

'Am not'

'Are too'

'Am not' Dean said before poking his tongue out at Sam.

Sam chuckled. 'Admit it Dean, you really want her to be a part of your life.'

'Fine, yeah I really like her and I would love her to be with us all the time, but only if that's ok with you and her'.

'Dean, I've watched you give up everything for me, Dad, you missed out on a heck of a lot of things growing up. Why should I mind? You deserve her, and she is great'.

Dean smiled 'thanks Sammy, but you're such a chick'.

'Jerk'

'Bitch, anyway what else you got?'

'Ah, 1 man in Colorado, a local man named Daniel Elkins was found mauled in his home'.

'Elkins? I know that name' Dean said.

'Doesn't ring a bell' Sam said, wondering why it did for Dean.

Under his breath Dean kept saying the word 'Elkins' over and over.

'Sounds like the police don't know what to think. At first they said it was some sort of bear attack and now they've found some signs of a robbery'.

'Mh-hmm' Dean replied, not really listening to Sam. He was more interested in John's journal. He kept flicking through it until he found the page he'd been looking for. 'There, check it out' Dean said when he found the right page.

He handed the journal over to Sam and pointed at the name Daniel Elkins.

It had a telephone number on it, but what intrigued Dean the most was that underneath that he saw the words 'Amelie' and 'gun'.

'Right, I'm going to phone her right now, and she better come here or I am going to kill her'

'Before you do, do you thinks it's the same Elkins, could just be a coincidence?'

'Sammy, it's us and anyway, it's a Colorado are code'.

In the Impala, Dean was driving whilst phoning Amelie.

She picked up on the fourth ring and Dean put her on speaker.

'Hello?' her voice said 'who is this?'

Dean smiled; he'd bought a cheap phone earlier so Amelie wouldn't know it was him, although he was annoyed, she answered to strangers and not him?

'Hello?' her voice said again.

'Hello Amelie' Dena answered.

There was a very loud huff.

'What do you want?'

'Well first I want to know why you have been ignoring my texts and calls'.

'And second?'

'Second, how do you know a Daniel Elkins?'

'I'm busy Dean, I'm not a normal hunter like you, I can't answer every call or text I get from a hunter, especially when I get like 30 a day from the same person'.

'Well you should have replied, you never know one of us could have been hurt'.

'But you're not 'cause you're talking to me'

'I nearly died' Dean said.

'What!'

'It was after you left; I got electrocuted and was told I had 3 weeks to live'

'Shit! Dammit Dean, one of you should of said something to me. And hey Sam, I know your listening to every word I say so tell me is Dean annoyed yet?'

'Yeah' came Sam's reply.

Amelie stifled a laugh as she heard Dean say 'Sammy!'

'Alright, so maybe I should answer my phone to you a bit more, but I am very danger prone so my phone is usually very far from my body'.

'In a sexual manner' Dean smirked getting ideas.

'NO! And stop thinking of me how you are Dean, I'm getting creeped out'.

'Anyway how do you know Daniel Elkins?' Sam asked cutting of Dean's response.

'A friend, why?'

'He was found mauled in his home'.

The boys heard a gasp from Amelie and a whole string load of curses.

'You still there Amelie?'

'Yeah, look I'll meet you at his home; I'll be there in about an hour'.

And with that Amelie hung up and then boys sat in silence for the rest of the journey.

Amelie sighed, 'John, oi Winchester, get your ass in here now!'

'What!' John said as he walked out of the bathroom 'where's the fire?'

'Elkins, is dead'

John stopped in his tracks, 'what?'

'Elkins, got mauled, I think they've come back, I'm going to see the boys at Elkins place and you are coming, so don't even think about trying to work your way out of it'.

By the time Sam and Dean get to Colorado and Elkins cabin its night and neither of them have the patience to deal with getting a warrant, so Sam started to pick the lock on the door.

Dean was holding a torch, trying to make Sam's lock picking easier.

Within a few seconds Sam had unlocked the door and was putting away his lock picker.

Dean whistled 'looks like the maid didn't come today' after looking around the cabin at the mess.

There was a rustle inside the cabin, Sam and Dean automatically reached for their guns, they strained their ears to find out where the noise was coming from. It was in the same room as them.

Dean motioned with his fingers to Sam, that he would go left and Sam should go right.

They did so carefully and didn't make a noise.

Sam turned and aimed his gun at the person in the armchair, as did Dean.

'Seriously, could you be any louder?' Amelie said.

'Amelie?'

'Told you I'd be here within an hour, you took an hour and a half'.

Sam smirked, 'good to see you' he said and helped Amelie up.

'Thank you Sam, it's good to see chivalry isn't dead'

'You're strange, you know that' Dean said.

'Say's the bloke who sleeps with a shotgun and knife'.

'Fair point'

'There's salt over there' Sam said before Dean could flirt with Amelie anymore.

Amelie handed Dean, Elkins journal and he started flicking through it, 'you mean protection against demon salt, or 'whoops I spilled the popcorn 'salt.'

Amelie smiled at Dean, she had missed the boys so much, Dean more than any more else. It was nice to see someone who you cared about.

'It's clearly a ring. Was Elkins a player Amelie?'

'Yes, one of the best I've come across'.

There was no point in lying Amelie thought they'll find out from the journal and John.

Whilst Amelie was caught up in her thoughts, Sam had come across to them and was looking at Elkins journal, 'that looks a hell out a lot like Dad's' he said.

'Yep, except this dates back to the '60's'.

Amelie looked out of the window, she could see a man out there, he was standing in the shadows of the tree's, she was about to investigate it when Sam and Dean moved into the bedroom and saw the massive hole up in the roof.

'Whatever attacked him, it looks like there was more than one' Sam said.

'Looks like he put up a hell of a fight too'.

'Yeah'.

The boys looked around the room; Dean crouched down to get a closer look at the floor, just as Amelie walked in.

'Nice ass Dean'

Ignoring Amelie, Dean looked closer at the floor.

'You got something?'

'I dunno. Some scratches on the floor'.

'Death throes maybe?'

'Yeah, maybe'.

Dean took the journal from Amelie's hands and took a piece from a page in the notebook, he placed it over the marks and rubbed a pencil over it to try and get an outline.

'Or maybe a message' Dean said.

He held the paper up to Sam and Amelie 'look familiar'.

'Three letters, six digits. The location and combination of a post office box. It's a mail drop' Sam said.

'Just the way Dad does it' Dean replied.

Amelie, Dean and Sam were standing outside the post office box belonging to Elkins and Dean was opening, whilst Amelie moaned that she was tired.

Dean reached into the box and pulled out a letter, which Sam opened, he stared at it for a while before showing Dean and Amelie.

'J.W, and A.C, you think John Winchester? But who is A.C?' Sam said.

'Me' Amelie said.

Dean turned to look at her. They were in the Impala so Dean had to do a full turn to look at her.

'You?'

'Yes'

'So what's the C for?' Sam asked.

'Collins, it's my last name, I'm Amelie Collins'.

'So we can open the letter then?' Dean said grateful that he didn't have to debate whether or not he'd be able to open the letter or not.

Suddenly a loud knock came from Dean's window and Dean reared back and automatically raised his arm, his fist clenching. He looked to see who it was.

It was John Winchester.

John looked at Dean and Sam seeing he has scared them he smiled. He looked at the backseat to see Amelie smiling at him.

'Dad?' Dean said.

John opened the door in the back and climbed in.

'Dad what are you doing here? Are you all right?' Sam asked, worried that his Dad was here.

'Yeah, I'm ok. Amelie told me about Daniel and we got here as soon as we could. She went to you first while I waited outside. I saw you at his place'.

'That was you?' Amelie asked.

John nodded.

'Why didn't you come in Dad?' Sam asked softly.

Turning to look at Sam, John replied 'you know why. Because I had to make sure you weren't followed' John paused for a second before finished 'by anyone or anything. Nice job covering your tracks by the way'.

Dean felt so happy when he heard the compliment come from his Dad's lips, he rarely got a compliment from his Dad so to hear one, was almost overwhelming.

'Yeah, well, we learned from the best' he said.

'Wait, you came all the way out here for this Elkins guy, just cause he died?' Sam said annoyed at his father for doing so.

'Yeah. He is... he was a good man. He taught me a hell of a lot about hunting' John said.

Both he and Amelie knew the other reason as to why they were both here.

'Well you never mentioned him to us, and what's with putting his name in your journal and underneath it Amelie's, along with gun?'

'Leave it Sammy' Amelie warned.

'No, it's fine Amelie' John said, 'we had a kind of falling out. I hadn't seen him in years. Amelie kept her eye on him but we weren't really sure that he had it, I should look at that' he said before grabbing the envelope out of Sam's hands.

'If you're reading this, I'm already dead' John read out. 'That son of a bitch'.

'What is it?' Dean asked.

'He had it the whole time' John spat.

Amelie kept her head down of course he had it, I'm the one who fricken gave it him she thought.

'Dad what?' Sam asked.

'When you searched the place, did you see a gun? An old revolver, an antique, did you see it?' John was getting frantic now.

'Ah, there was an old case but it was empty' Dean said.

'Did you see anything Amelie?' John pressed.

'Nope'.

John cursed under his breath 'they have it'.

'You mean whatever killed Elkins?'

John was just getting out of the car when he replied 'we gotta pick up the trail'.

'Wait' Sam replied 'you want us to come with you?'

'If Elkins was telling the truth we gotta find this gun' Amelie replied.

'The gun, why?'

'It's important' Amelie and John replied at the same time.

'Dad, we don't even know what these things are yet' Sam said.

'They were what Daniel killed best; Vampires' John answered.

'Vampires? I thought there was no such thing' Dean said incredulously.

'You never even mentioned them Dad'.

'Daniel was the best at hunting them, so good that we thought they were extinct. I guess we're wrong' Amelie replied.

'Tell us about them then' Dean said.

'Most vampire law is crap. The first hunters, the ones who wrote most hunter law said the ones that are crap are; crosses repelling them; it doesn't work, sunlight won't kill them, neither will a stake to the heart, bloodlust? Well that's definitely true; they need fresh human blood to survive. They were once people, so until it's too late you won't know it's a vampire' John answered.

'Well how do we kill them?'

'Dead man's blood slows them down, but to kill them you need to cut off their heads' Amelie answered.

Sam, Dean and Amelie were asleep in a motel room.

Dean and Amelie were together as they could only afford 2 beds and neither wanted the floor.

John was sitting at the table with a radio held in both hands. He put it down when he heard a dispatch to an abandoned car with a possible 207.

He grabbed his jacket and jumped to his feet.

'Sam, Dean, Amelie let's go'

Amelie groaned whilst Dean said 'mm-hmm'.

Sam, though half sat up.

Amelie grudgingly got of the bed and Dean rubbed his eyes.

Best sleep I've had in ages. Dean thought I wonder if it has anything to do with Amelie.

'I picked up a police call' John said.

'What happened?' Sam asked, after watching Amelie wrestle Dean into getting out of the bed.

'A couple called 911, found a body in the street. Cops got there everyone was missing; it's the vampires'.

Upon rising from his bed, Sam asked 'how do you know?'

John was now at the door 'just follow me, ok?'

'He's worse than you Amelie' Dean said.

'What d'ya mean?'

'You barely give us information, Dad, he never does'.

'Oh'.

Sam walked across the room to get his jacket and muttered to Dean and Amelie 'never thought that vampires were real'.

'Huh, vampires. Get's funnier every time I hear it' Dean smiled.

Dean, Sam and Amelie were waiting by the Impala, watching John talk to a cop on the scene.

Sam had a sulky face on and Amelie was finding it almost impossible not to laugh.

Especially when Sam said 'I don't see why we couldn't have gone over with him'.

'Oh don't tell me it's already starting' Dean sighed.

Confused Sam asked 'what's starting?'

'What have you got?' Amelie asked John.

'It was them alright. Looks like they're heading west. We'll have to double back to get around that detour'.

'How can you be so sure?' Sam asked.

'Sam…' Dean warned.

'I just want to know we're going in the right direction' Sam said sharply to Dean.

'HEY! If John says the vamps are heading west, they're heading west. Don't be such a dick about it' Amelie said.

'But how do you know?' Sam persisted.

John pulled something out of his pocket and handed it over to Dean 'I found this'.

'It's a… a vampire fang' Dean said, astonished he was holding one.

'Not fangs, teeth. The second set descends when they attack' Amelie said.

John looked over at Sam 'any more questions?'

Sam looked away from John's face and remained silent.

'All right, let's get out of here we're losing daylight' John said 'Amelie, you gonna stick with them?'

Amelie nodded and started heading for the Impala, she was shortly followed by Sam and Dean.

John looked at the Impala and said 'hey Dean, why don't you touch up your car before you get rust? I wouldn't have given you the damn thing if I thought you were going to ruin it'.

Amelie sighed as Dean looked down at his car.

Sam looked at Dean with his 'told you so' look on his face, Dean just grimaced.

As they followed John, Amelie said to Sam and Dean 'ignore him, he's just pissed because I knew Elkins had the gun all along, I just neglected to tell him I knew'.

'What is this gun?' Sam asked from the driver's seat.

'It's called The Colt. But you should get John to explain more, I highly doubt he would be happy if I told you what it did' Amelie replied.

Dean, who was sitting next to Amelie, was reading about vampires.

'Vampire nest in groups of eight to ten. Smaller packs are sent to hunt for food. Victims are taken to the nest where the pack keeps them alive, bleeding them for days or weeks' Dean read out.

'I wonder if that's what happened to the 911 couple' Amelie said.

'That's probably what Dad's thinking. Course it would be nice if he just told us what he thinks', Sam said grumpily.

Dean groaned 'so it is starting'.

'What?'

'Sam, we've been looking for Dad all year. Now we're not with him for more than a coupla hours and there's static already?'

'Hmph. No. Look, I'm happy he's ok, all right? And I'm happy that we're all working together again'.

'Well good'.

'But?' Amelie said.

'But, it's just the way he treats us, like we're children'.

Dean groaned again 'oh God'.

'He barks orders at us Dean, he expects us to follow 'em without question. He keeps us on some crap, need to know deal'.

'He does what he does for a reason'.

'What reason?'

'Our job! There's no time to argue, there's no margin for error, all right? That's just the way the old man runs things'.

'Yeah well maybe that worked when we were kids but not anymore, all right. Not after everything you and I have been through Dean. I mean, are you telling me you're cool with just falling into line, letting him run the whole show?'

Dean just looked at Sam and took a long pause before replying 'if that's what it takes'.

A couple of hours later Amelie is asleep and resting against Dean who was on the phone, and was most certainly not stroking Amelie's hair.

'Yeah dad' he said into the speaker 'all right, got it'.

He hung up and told Sam 'pull of at the next exit'.

Sam was angry 'why?'

'Cause Dad thinks we've got the vampire's trail'

Sam was very angry now 'how?'

'I don't know he didn't say'.

Sam started gunning the engine and Dean kept a firm grip on Amelie and looked at Sam as if he was crazy.

Outside Dean saw John's truck, Sam overtook it and slammed on the brakes, causing the Impala to serve sideways and forcing John to stop.

Sam slammed out of his seat to meet John who was now out of his truck and looked angry.

Dean groaned 'oh crap' he said as he got out of the car careful to not disturb Amelie 'here we go. Sam!'

'What the hell was that?' John asked Sam.

'We need to talk'.

'About what?'

'About everything. Where we going Dad. What's the big deal about this job?'

'Sammy come on' Dean said after looking back at Amelie's sleeping form 'we can Q and A after we kill all the vampires'.

'Your brother's right, we don't have time for this'.

Last time we saw you, you said it was too dangerous for us to be together. Now out of the blue you need our help?' Sam was yelling now, 'obviously something big is going down and we wanna know what'.

'Get back in the car' John said.

'No'

'I said get back in the damn car'.

'Yeah, and I said no'.

Do they seriously want to wake Amelie? I mean I don't exactly know what she'll be like if she's woken but if it's anything like she is when she is awake then I don't want to see it, Dean thought.

'Ok you made your point tough guy;' Dean said 'look we're all tired, we can talk about this later. Sammy I mean it, come on'.

Dean grabbed Sam and pushed him back towards the car. Sam obliged but continued to stare at John.

'This is why I left in the first place' he mumbled.

'What did you say?' John said.

Getting out of Dean's grip Sam replied 'you heard me'.

'Yeah, you left. Your brother and me, we needed you. You walked away'.

'Sam…' Dean warned for what felt like the millionth time that day.

'You walked away!' John yelled at Sam's face.

'Stop it, both of you' Dean said.

'You're the one who said don't come back Dad, you closed that door not me. You were just pissed off that you couldn't control me anymore!' Sam retorted.

'STOP IT!' Amelie shouted.

'I have had enough of your arguing, Sam you say you're being treated like a child? Well you're flippin' acting like one. John just answer his bloody questions' Amelie said before marching over to them both and forcing them apart.

'You're such dicks' she said.

They continued to glare at each other over Amelie's head.

Dean could feel the power emanating from Amelie so was not surprised when Sam looked away from John. John however continued to glare.

'That means you too' Dean said looking at John.

Sam got into the Impala with a very pissed of Amelie and John turned back to his car.

Dean just stood in the middle of the two cars and looked at Sam and John.

'Terrific'.

Sam, Dean, Amelie and John were watching a vampire talk to another one in a car.

'Son of a bitch' Dean said 'so there really not afraid of the sun?'

'Direct sunlight hurts them like a nasty sunburn. The only way to kill 'em is by beheading. And yeah, they sleep during the day, doesn't mean they won't wake up' John replied.

'I guess walking right in's not our best option' Dean said.

'Actually' John smiled 'that's the plan'.

Dean opened the trunk of his Impala, and Sam and Dean started weaponing up whilst John grabbed his weapons from an automatic hidden compartment in his truck.

'Where's your SUV?' John asked Amelie.

''Had an accident'.

'What kind?'

'It got set alight'

'By what?'

'Me'.

'Why? I thought you loved that SUV?'

'I did, it got possessed'.

'Oh'.

Dean looked over at John 'dad, I've got an extra machete if you need one'. Dean held it up but John unveiled a massive shiny one, with a serrated edge from his leather holder on his hip.

'I think I'm ok thanks'.

Dean and Sam gawped at the size of it.

'Wow!' Dean said.

'So, you boys really wanna know about this colt?'

'Yes sir'

'It's just a story, legend really, only the first hunters really know the full details, but I at least thought it to be a legend, never really believed it until I read Daniel's letter'.

Amelie looked at John and remembered when she first got her hands on the colt.

'Amelie, you know more about the legend than me you tell it' John said bringing Amelie out of her thoughts.

'Back in 1835, when Halley's comet was overhead, the same night those men died at the Alamo and the same night a girl of 22 was killed by her brother, she was one of the first hunters so it was a devastating time, at the time the girl was friends with a man named Samuel Colt, he made a gun. A special gun. He made it for a hunter, a man or woman like us only on horseback. Story goes he made thirteen bullets, and the hunter who he gave it to used the gun half a dozen times before being killed. The gun disappeared too, and somehow, somehow Daniel got his hands on it. They say that this gun can kill anything'.

Dean was staring at Amelie with such curiosity that when she finished he wanted more 'kill anything like, supernatural anything?'

'Like the demon?' Sam asked.

'Yeah exactly like the demon, ever since I picked up its trail I've been looking for a way to destroy that thing. Find the gun and we may have it' John said.

The barn door of where the vampires were, swung open, John jumped inside and disappeared. Shortly after Sam, Dean and Amelie.

They surveyed the room they were in; there were a load of vamps in it and they were sleeping in hammocks.

And it was very quiet.

John looked into the stalls whilst Sam, Dean and Amelie made their way through the barn.

Dean passed by a hammock housing a fat, middle aged vampire, and his foot hit an empty bottle. Amelie and Sam held their breath as they heard the bottle clink but thankfully the vamp didn't wake up.

At the back of the barn John sees 2 vampires asleep on a bed in an alcove, with the gun hanging in a holster beside them.

After a few minutes of searching Sam has found a girl tied up against the pole. She must be the 911 girl Sam thought.

'Dean' Sam whispered 'Amelie'.

Slowly, John makes his way down a few steps to the bed. The male vampire turns over in his sleep making John extra wary.

Sam started to untie the girl and was almost done when they heard a noise. Dean looked behind them and saw a load more people locked up inside a metal grid. They were all sleeping or unconscious. Dean looked around for a lock on the door, he found it and grabbed a metal hook to break it off. As started hitting the lock, Sam looked up sharply at the noise and then over at the hammocks, there was still no movement.

John had almost reached the gun.

Amelie was keeping her eye out for any vamp that started to wake up.

The girl that's tied up began to stir.

'Hey. Hey,hey', Sam whispered 'I'm here to help you'.

The girl started to scream, an unearthly scream, Sam jumped back and Dean looked around.

The vampires were waking up.

'Sam' Dean called 'Amelie'.

John turned around towards the noise and beside him the two vamps woke up. The male upon seeing John reared up and threw him against the wall.

'John!' Amelie called out and ran towards him.

John quickly grabbed a rock and hurled it behind the male vamp, where it crashed against a blackened window, letting the daylight in. The two vampires flinched away from it.

Allowing Amelie to pull him up John shouted 'boy's run!'

Sam and Dean started to run out of the barn calling out to Amelie and John as they did. The vampires started to chase them but Sam and Dean burst out of the barn doors and into the daylight, before half of them had even comprehended that there were intruders.

Sam and Dean ran up the slope towards the cars before they looked back.

'DAD? AMELIE?' Dean called.

No answer.

'DAD?'

After a long pause John and Amelie came running up the slope and as soon as Sam and Dean spot them they breathed out a sigh of relief.

'They won't follow, not til tonight. Once a vamp has your scent it's for life' John said.

'What the hell do we do now?' Dean said.

'We have to find the nearest funeral home, that's what' Amelie replied.

Sam and Dean looked at her like she had grown another head before remembering that dead man's blood slows vamps down.

Dean and Amelie had been gone for almost an hour and Sam and John were left in the motel.

Sam was pacing and John was sitting at the table.

'It shouldn't be taking this long. I should go help' Sam said.

'They've got it, and you know what Dean's like around her'.

Sam continued to pace.

John watched him for a bit before saying 'Sammy?'

Sam stopped pacing. 'Yeah?'

'I don't think ever told you this but… the day you were born you know what I did?'

'No?'

'I put $100 into a savings account for you. I did the same for your brother. It was a college fund. And every month I'd put in another $100 until… anyway my point is Sam that, this is never the life I wanted for you'.

'Then why'd get so mad when I left?'

'You gotta understand something. After your mother passed all I saw was evil, everywhere. And all I cared about was keeping you boys alive. I wanted you...prepared. Ready. Except somewhere along the line I...Uh...I stopped being your father and I...I became your drill sergeant. So when you said and that you were gunna be alone. Vulnerable. Sammy it just...it never occurred to me what you wanted. I just couldn't accept the fact that you and I were just different'.

Sam stifled a laugh.

'What?'

'We're not different. Not anymore. With what happened to Mom and Jess...well we probably have a lot more in common than just about anyone'.

'I guess your right son'.

'Hey Dad? Whatever happened to that college fund?'

John smiled 'spent it on ammo'.

John and Sam looked at one another and smiled, before cracking up with laughter.

Midway through their laughing attack Dean and Amelie entered. Amelie looked tired and Dean just looks like he ran a mile.

'Get it?' John asked them.

Dean fumbled in his pocket, after a second or two he pulled out a paper bag and from that a bottle of something red. He handed it over to John.

'You know what to do' he replied.

Dean opened the bonnet of the Impala and looked at the engine.

'Car trouble?' a woman behind him asked.

Dean turned around.

'Let me give you a lift. I'll take you back to my place'.

Dean grinned at her 'Nah I'll pass. I usually draw the line at necrophilia'.

'Oooh' the woman replied and backhands him, then grabs his face and lifted him into the air.

Dean grabbed her wrist and said 'I don't usually get this friendly until the second date but…'

'You know we could have some fun. I always like to make new friends'.

She lowered Dean down and kissed him, holding his cheeks tightly.

Another vamp watches them and smiles.

'Sorry. I don't usually stay with a chick that long. Definitely not eternity'.

Suddenly an arrow pierces the male vampire and then a second later one hits the female holding Dean.

She drops Dean and looks out at the arrow.

'Damn it' she said before seeing Amelie, Sam and John.

'You kissed my boyfriend' Amelie said.

'Little one?' the woman stuttered.

Amelie smiled 'glad you recognise me' and raised her crossbow.

'I swear I didn't know you two were together I wouldn't of done it otherwise'

'Too bad you did' Amelie said before firing at the woman again.

She smiled 'it barely even stings'

'Give it time sweetheart, that arrow is soaked in dead man's blood' John said as Amelie walked over to Dean.

The woman's eyes widened as she realised she was being poisoned; she wavered a bit and then fell to the floor losing consciousness.

'Load her up, I'll take care of the other one' John said.

'Your boyfriend huh?' Dean said to Amelie as she helped him up.

'Well, only if you want to be'.

'Sure as that chick is a vamp I want to be'.

'Good' Amelie replied before ramming Dean against the side of the Impala and kissed him.

John approached the other vamp who was sitting groggily on the ground; he raised his machete over the vamp and brought it down.

Blood sprayed all over a boulder.

John handed Dean a bag and they moved from the Impala's trunk towards the campfire Sam was by.

Amelie was patrolling the area with a machete in her arms and a cross bow on her hip, Dean smiled at her, god she is so sexy with a machete.

'Toss this on the fire' John said 'saffron, skunk's cabbage and trillium. It'll block our scent and hers, until we're ready'.

Dean sniffed the air and immediately started coughing 'stuff stinks'.

'Kind of the idea Dean' Amelie said. 'You may want to dust your clothes with the ashes so you stand a better chance of not being detected.

'You sure they'll come after her?' Sam asked.

'Yeah. Vamp's mate for life. She means more to the leader than the gun. But the blood sickness is going to wear off soon, so you don't have a lot of time' John answered.

'A half hour oughta do it' Sam replied.

'And then I want you out of the area as fast as you can'.

'But…' Sam started.

'Dad you can't take them all' Dean said.

'I'll have her and Amelie, not to mention the colt'.

'But after, we're gunna meet up right? Use the gun together. Right?' Sam said in a desperate tone.

'You're leaving again aren't you? You still want to go after the demon alone. You know, I don't get you. You can't treat us like this' Sam said.

'Like what?' John retorted.

'Like children'.

'You are my children. I'm trying to keep you safe'.

'Dad, all due respect but, that's a bunch of crap' Dean said earning looks of shock from Sam and John.

Amelie, however just went over to Dean.

'Excuse me?' John said.

'You know what Sammy and I have been hunting. Hell you sent us on a few hunting trips yourself. You can't be that worried about keeping us safe'.

'It's not the same thing Dean'.

'Then what is it? Why do you want us out of the big fight?'

'This demon? It's a bad son of a bitch. I can't make the same moves if I'm worried about keeping you alive'.

'You mean you can't be as reckless'.

Amelie just sighed and was about to say that she would go along with John when John spoke again.

'Look...I don't expect to make it out of this fight in one piece. Your mother's death, it almost killed me. I can't watch my children die too, I won't.'

'What happens if you die? Dad what happens if you die and we coulda done something about it? You know I been thinking. I ...maybe Sammy's right about this one. We should do this together'.

Sam nodded.

'We're stronger together Dad. We just are. You know it'.

'John, I'm going with you, end off and Dean, go do your job we're running out of time. And get out of there as fast as you can' Amelie said.

'Is there any sign of those four?' the male vamp said.

'No, something else'.

'What?'

'Luther, they cut of Frank's head!'

'And Kate?'

'Dunno, she weren't there. What you gunna do?'

A truck sounded outside causing the vamps to get distracted.

'It's just a truck up on the highway'.

Luther whispered 'Kate, she's in that truck'.

John drove his truck down a road just as Kate sluggishly opened and closed her eyes. After a moment or two headlights shined in John's rear view mirror and two cars started to approach him quickly from behind.

Inside the vamp's nest a vampire is taking swigs from a bottle of Jack. He looked up and moved to stand in front of the barn doors but then decides not to stand there and walks away. Before turning around again. A man with piercing green eyes is standing there holding a machete.

'Boo' the man says and swung his machete at the vamp, cutting its head off.

'Dean, that was very mean of you' Amelie said.

Dean smiled 'I know you liked it though' and walked over to the locked container of people 'I told you I'd come back' he said before breaking of the hinges.

John was only able to drive a bit further before he had to stop as the road ahead of him was blocked by 4 vampires and 2 cars.

'Get out! Who are you?' one of them, the leader john mused, shouted.

'Names Winchester' John replied.

'Where are your friends?'

'Cleaning out your nest'.

'Where's Kate?'

Turning back to the truck John said 'Come here sweetheart'.

He pulled up a groggy and tied up Kate and held a large knife to her throat.

'Kate, you all right?'

'Little one, dead man's blood' she muttered.

Luther's eyes widened 'the son of a bitch'.

'I want the colt. Elkins gun. Trade' John said.

'That's what this is all about? I mean, you can't shoot us all right? We'll kill you' Luther said.

'Oh, I don't need it for you. I'm saving it for something else' John relied. 'Now put the colt down, or she goes first'.

'All right. Just don't hurt her' Luther replied.

Luther pulled the colt out of his pocket and placed it on the floor.

'Back up. Further' John said.

John dragged Kate forwards and leaned down with her to pick up the gun.

Kate quickly worked at the ties around her wrists.

'It's a nice move, you almost made it' Luther said to John.

Kate swung around and knocked John back against his truck. He dropped the gun it fell to the floor. Luther started to walk towards him. When he reached John he backhanded him so John fell back against the open car door, shattering the glass before landing unconscious on the ground.

Just as Luther was approaching John again an arrow pierced one of the vamps and Sam, Dean and Amelie ran out of the trees. Dean stopped to line up and shoot another vamp whilst Sam went towards Luther who just smiled and backhanded Sam. Amelie grabbed her machete turning to help Sam but Luther already has Sam by the throat.

'Don't' Luther said 'I'll break his neck. Put the blade down'.

Amelie automatically dropped the machete before Luther could cut of Sam's air supply.

'Let him go' she said.

'You people. Why can't you leave us alone? We have as much right to live as you do' Luther said.

'I don't think so' John said from behind Luther.

Luther turned around and saw John raise the colt. John pulled the trigger and shot Luther in between the eyes. Luther automatically let go of Sam who stumbled away gasping. Dean pulled Sam behind him.

A Sigel started to appear where the bullet hit Luther and he stumbled. A brief flash of light reflected his skeleton, before he fell to his knees.

'Luther!' Kate cried out.

Another flash of light passed through Luther before he slumped to the ground; dead.

Kate started to run towards John but was pulled into a car by another vamp. The car took off, wheels screaming.

Sam, Dean and Amelie are in their motel room and were packing up their things when John entered.

'So guys' he said.

They all looked at him.

'Yes sir' Sam said.

'You ignored a direct order back there'.

'Yes sir'.

'Yeah but we saved you ass' Dean said.

'You're right' John replied.

'I am?' Dean asked incredulously.

'It scares the hell out of me. You three are all I've got. But I guess we are stronger together. So ...let's go after this damn thing. Together. All four of us'.

'Yes sir' Sam and Dean said in unison.

Amelie nodded but was looking out of the window. She saw a man standing underneath a streetlight the light above was flickering and her head started pounding.

'Amelie, are you alright?' Sam asked upon noticing Amelie was a bit out of it.

'Yeah, just got a headache. Nothing to worry about'.

John glanced at Amelie who just smiled reassuringly at him, 'honest John it's nothing'.

When Amelie looked back out of the window the man was gone and the streetlight was no longer flickering.

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