"Dean this is not the way to treat her." A guy with chocolate brown hair that kicked out in the back of his neck said looking at me with his hazel eyes. "When was the last time you fed her?"
"I've fed her!" Dean shouted pulling me up by the arm.
"What crackers and water?" The guy asked looking at me.
"Rikki this is my brother Sam. He is here to help." Dean said unlocking me from the chain around my ankle.
"Next time contact me sooner." He said taking my hand.
"You don't think I haven't been trying?! Now get your hands off her!" Dean shouted pulling my other arm. "Ow!" He yelled closing his eyes and let go of my arm.
"What was that?" Sam asked letting go of my hand and walked over to Dean. "You okay?" He chuckled.
"Yeah I'm fine. Help me up."
"Not here to help you, here to help her." He said throwing his head toward me. "By the way you can pick yourself up."
"Yeah yeah yeah." Dean sighed getting up. "Now what do we do?"
"First she has to know everything we know."
"Okay but let's get her something to eat." Dean said walking to the door.
"Fine but no more crackers and water; she eats real food." Sam said taking my hand again. "She is weak. God Dean you do not know how to protect people."
"I've been busy trying to find you, sorry!" Dean shouted walking out the door.
"Okay let's take you to the kitchen." Sam chuckled picking me up into his arms and walked to the kitchen after Dean. "Here we go." He said sitting me down in a chair. "What are we going to make you to eat?" Sam asked himself rifling through Dean's entire refrigerator. "Water…" Sam trailed off walking to the cabinets. "Crackers…" He said closing the cabinet door. "Really that's all you have?"
"I haven't really had time to go out and buy food-"
"I know, I know busy." Sam said cutting Dean off. "So what is it you have been eating?"
"Take out, burgers mostly." Dean smiled.
"Okay so what do you propose we get her to eat?" Sam said trying to hide a smile.
"I'll go get something. I'm hungry anyway." Dean said getting his keys and walked out the front door.
"Rikki, here drink some water; slowly." Sam smiled giving me a glass of water. "So what has Dean told you?"
"I'm just so tired." I whispered looking through drooped eyes.
"I know you are weak but we need to talk. After that you can go to sleep. I will even take you to a bed." He whispered cupping his hands under my jaw.
"Umm…he…he told me about how every one of you have a family to protect. Told me you left The Warriors of Mist and that nobody has seen you since." I said as he let go of my face. "Why did you not get shocked?"
"Excuse me?" Sam chuckled. "What are you talking about?"
"This ring I have on my finger it shocks guys with any kind of feeling toward me."
"I guess it would work if I had feelings." Sam smiled.
"But you left the other warriors."
"Yeah so? I didn't fall for anyone I just left." He said sitting on the chair adjacent to mine. "Alright well while we wait for Dean I will tell you a little about my story." He said getting comfortable in the chair. "I was born on the night of a full moon, in August of 1967. I was a home birth because back then hospitals didn't really exist for our kind. When I was twelve I was sent to school/training for The Warriors of Mist and I was the best fighter they had seen since my father. You see our species only mate with others of our kind. There is no feeling it's just for the sake of reproduction, passing on our genes to the next generation of warriors. The only reason we started breeding was because all of you rolled into the world and brought these feelings with you. Some fell for it and became useless to the others. I eventually became war leader in the fight against you people but I was disobeyed by so many. We were all assigned families for punishment after I failed. We were supposed to protect them and make them trust us so we could kill them in the end. But most of us dropped like flies when we started to produce feelings for you. We couldn't control ourselves and became weak. In that time I had found out my powers but the other warriors wouldn't have me be more powerful than them. They tried to kill me for the greater good or that's what they told me anyway. They restrained Dean so he couldn't help me; at that point I knew the only way I was going to survive was if I escaped and was never found again."
"That's why nobody has seen you in centuries. If you don't mind me asking what have you been doing all that time?"
"Training myself, I have met others who are kind of just like me. Have powers in certain areas and such and they took me in. They live in a remote part of the world that is undetectable; Evan has that kind of power he might have been better to call." Sam laughed. "Of course none of them like Dean because he is technically still part of The Warriors of Mist. But I love my brother so I will help him anyway I can. Why do you think it didn't take him as long as it would have to find me?"
"How do you expect to protect me?"
"Dean has told you about my powers, right?"
"Yeah in a nutshell."
"I have told her but first we have to get that ring off her finger somehow." Dean said walking through the front door. "Could someone help me?"
"Yeah I'm coming." Sam said getting up to go help Dean bring in the food. "Why must we get the ring off her finger? It doesn't bother me." Sam said putting the food down on the table. "Jeez dude how much food did you get?"
"Shut up, I was hungry." Dean said sitting down and unwrapped a burger. "What do you mean it doesn't bother you? It shocks me."
"Well brother if you do recall I don't have feelings." Sam smiled giving me a burger.
"Still don't have feelings? You are missing out." Dean said taking a bite of his burger.
"I don't think I am. I don't want to be weak."
"But it's so much more than that Sammy. Soon you enjoy being able to feel things."
"Like pain and heartbreak? No thank you." Sam said sitting down next to me. "Rikki you have to eat."
"I'm not hungry."
"That's only because you haven't eaten much in the past few days. Just eat it little bites at a time."
"It's not just that it's the feeling of being in love, being happy, being able to dream and feel what's going on. You can't put a price on that Sam."
"Whatever. Anyway you were saying about the ring."
"We have to get the ring off because Spencer will be keeping tabs on her and will know where she is. I think the only reason he hasn't found us yet is because he is still out on business."
"How are we going to get it off? Spencer said it was impossible." I said taking a little bite of the burger and forcing it down my throat.
"We will find a way." Sam said looking at me. "It's kind of a bland ring. Where is the pizzazz?" He laughed moving his glance down to the ring. "If I were to get a woman a ring it would not only say something about who she is but who we were as a couple."
"I want to sleep." I said putting down my barely touched burger.
"Okay I will take you to my room." Sam said picking me up out of the chair and carrying me upstairs.
When I hit the pillows all I could hear was talking in the distance. "If I didn't know any better I would say you are starting to develop feelings."
"Don't be ridiculous."
"I don't know it happens very fast. Why do you think warriors would drop like flies a little bit after being near them? There is just something about being around them that is so tantalizing. They connect."
"We connect just not in a way that is outside of the warriors."
"Yeah war and hatred? Yes that is around but not everybody is in on it. Rikki is harmless, most of them are." Dean said as I drooped into sleep.
All I could hear was the ocean and the waves crashing on the shore. I was lying on a towel soaking up the sun's rays and listening to the waves. "Rikki." A voice said.
"Sam, what are you doing here?" I asked sitting up on my elbows.
"I was playing volleyball. You want to join?" Sam asked chuckling.
"Sure." I smiled getting up off my towel and ran after him kicking up sand. "What are we playing for?"
"Playing for confessions." Sam smiled serving the ball. "Serves up."
"Okay but how come we are the only ones playing?"
"Because you won't let anybody else in."
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"Rikki this is inside your mind and what you want happens. Just like you want me to have feelings for you. It would be like a love at first site if I had feelings at all. In here I can feel."
"You don't get shocked by my ring, you came to help me and told me everything and trusted me ever though you didn't have to." I said as the net disappeared and he came in front of me.
"Listen I understand all of that but you and I both know that if I started to develop feelings the ring would in fact shock me. That is its primary focus, to protect you from anyone who might try to take you by force. Oh right Spencer already did that."
"I can't undo what's has already happened but I want to know why am I such a big prize?"
"I can't tell you that." Sam said looking into my eyes.
"Why not?" I asked as he moving his fingers up and down my arm gently.
"Because this is in your head and I can only tell you what you already know. You don't know so I don't know. Once you find out I will find out. You understand why Dean was in your life all along though. You are finding out things and it only took you four years to do so." Sam whispered in my ear. "I wish I could explain what was going on but because of you I can't."
"How come I haven't dreamt in five days?"
"I was too weak to process a little picture show for you. When you suffer I suffer."
"So tell me something that I would know but not remember in the waking world." I said watching the wind ruffle Sam's hair.
"When you were born you were branded by the nurse who delivered you. This was so Spencer could find you at any given time in your life. That little birthmark on your butt is the branding."
"I feel a little embarrassed that you know that." I said as my face started to turn red.
"I only know it because you know it but you don't remember it because you were a little preoccupied. You see that Spencer has been keeping tabs on you since you came out of you mother."
"Spencer knows where I am doesn't he?"
"You know what you think. What do you just want to hear someone else say it so you can say that they believe you?"
"I'm not sure I like your attitude." I said turning my back on him.
"I'm not the bad guy; you are making me out to be who I am. This is your head remember?" He said putting his arms around my waist from behind and rubbed his nose on my neck.
"Yeah you aren't going to let me forget are you?" I asked turning my head to see him kissing up my neck, moving his hand slowly across my jaw and then kissed my lips.
"No." He whispered pulling away after the kiss.
"How come I didn't feel that?"
"You can't feel this kind of feelings in a dream because if everyone did than sex wouldn't be as pleasurable." He chuckled. "Now I will be around when you wake up." He smiled as my eyes fluttered open.
"Weird dream." I yawned rubbing my eyes with the back of my hand.
I don't own Supernatural, Dean or Sam but everything else you do not recognize from the show is mine.