Chapter 1

May 20th, 1999

„Eli" Was that one word echoing the house for the past ten minutes. It made Dean want to scratch his ears out. „Eli!"

"Sammy is not here, he's on a hunting trip with Dad and Bobby!" Dean yelled from his room. He couldn't be bothered with the kid. The past few months she spent with them had been pure torture. She was following them around, butting in their conversations with her opinion when it wasn't needed, she was always right and had that bossy little princess attitude, but she had amazing hunting skills and was good with analyzing things. "You know you can call him Sammy, like Dad and I do, right?"

"I could, but he is special, so he gets a special nickname." Annie yelled back. She was anxious. She won't be able to fall asleep without him. They usually talked, and she would fall asleep. He's like that big brother she always wanted, but never had. "When will Uncle Johnny, Bobby and Eli be back?"

"In a few days, maybe a week." Dean answered. "Now go to sleep!"

"Fine!" She grumbled and walked toward her room. She'd usually sleep in Sam's room, but since he's not there, she will have to manage somehow. She was trying to figure something out when an idea popped in her head. She grabbed her little notebook and the phone John got her in case Dean did something stupid and typed the number of one person she hadn't seen in a while.

"Hello?" She could hear on the other line. Her breath got stuck in her throat. She couldn't hold back her tears, because she didn't realize how much she missed her family until she heard her Aunt's voice. "Hello?"

"Auntie J?" She croaked out.

"My little Queen. Where are you? How is everything? Are your parents treating you well?"

"Aunt J, I'm not at home. Dad sent me to live with my Godfather. Uncle Johnny said that I'll stay here until Dad finds a way to cure my heart. I thought you knew that?" Annie was puzzled. Why wouldn't her parents tell her Aunt anything about her whereabouts.

"Grayson Gilbert! That son of a…" She could hear her Aunt's muffled curses. "How is John treating you?"

"It's fine. Although, he and Eli went on a trip with Bobby, and left me stuck here with that jerk, Dean."

"Eli?"

"That's a nickname for Samuel, Uncle Johnny's younger son. He's like an awesome big brother to me." Annie retorted.

"Still into nicknaming people, huh?" Her Aunt laughed.

"Yup." Annie popped the P.

"And who is this jerk?"

"That's the older son. His name is Dean. I don't like him."

"Why not? What did he do, my little Queen?" Her Aunt asked her. She knew that the kid rarely disliked people, and when she did, it usually wouldn't turn around.

"He was mean to me and to Eli. He doesn't like books, and he says that I'm just a little girl or a little princess. He also says mean things to me and eats my pie."

"How old is he?" Her Aunt laughed.

"He is 20, I think. Sammy is 16, though." The girl muttered.

"Maybe he just doesn't like the fact that he has to protect someone else?" Jenna offered. She had no other explanation for the guy's behavior.

"Maybe." The girl shrugged.

"How's university, Auntie J?"

"It's busy, but alright." She smiled at that and they talked for a few more minutes, and then Jenna hung up because she had early lessons.

Annie stayed awake for the next three hours. She couldn't fall asleep without someone to tuck her in and tell her a story or talk to her about anything. Samuel Winchester was the only Winchester who knew that, and he wasn't here to help her now. At around three in the morning, her belly grumbled, and she went to the kitchen to eat something. She climbed on the chair and took some apple pie. She started munching on it, when, suddenly, lights turned on, and gun was pointed at her.

"What are you…" Dean rubbed his eyes and looked at the kid, eating apple pie at three in the bloody morning. He thought that the kid was asleep, but no. She was wide awake.

"What does it look like?" She asked him. "I'm eating pie."

"Why are you awake so early?" He asked her.

"Don't you mean why am I awake so late?" She corrected him. "I can't sleep."

"Oh, really?"

"Yes, really. You go back to sleep. I will be fine." She said, without looking at him and continued eating pie. Instead of listening to her, he got a slice of pie for himself, and sat next to her. They ate the whole pie, not a single word shared between them. After eating the pie, Dean made her sit with him in the living room, which she accepted reluctantly. Dean sat next to her, sleepily and watched her like a hawk, waiting for her to fall asleep, but he couldn't stay awake for too long. He fell asleep at 3:45am. Annie smiled, went to grab a blanket and covered him. She turned on the TV and input her Pokemon cassette in the VCR. She watched many episodes until 9:30am, then prepared breakfast for her and Dean, went back to watching Pokemon. It was 10am, when Dean finally woke up.

"Morning." She said, not removing her eyes from the TV, it was episode 13. Few moments later she yelled. "Finally! Well done, Ketchum!" Grinning from ear to ear, she played the next episode, and since Dean was awake, she was free to sing along to the theme song. "I want to be the very best, like no one ever was. To catch them is my real test, to train them is my cause…"

"Stop singing!" Dean yelled, annoyed. "How can you be so hyperactive, we fell asleep at 4am."

"Actually, I didn't sleep at all. I was watching Pokemon since you fell asleep." Annie said. "I want to watch more. Breakfast is on the table."

"Why don't you have breakfast with me?" Dean asks, standing in front of the TV.

"Later. Oh, by the way, coffee is in the machine." She announced. Dean stayed right in his place "Dean, move!"

"What's the magic word, kid?" He smirked.

"Now" She said. He still didn't move. "Don't make me eat all the pie!"

"There isn't any pie left, kid. We ate everything last night."

"That's what you think, now move!" He didn't, instead, he put her over his shoulder and carried her to the kitchen. There he saw bacon and eggs with a few pancakes. She learned how to make those from her Grandmother. He made her sit down and eat. They ate together, and he moaned at the taste.

"That good?" She smirked.

"Shut up!"

July 11th, 2003

"Uncle Johnny, we can't do this!" Annie said. "You have to leave me here. I'm dying either way."

"You're staying with us! Sammy left, you can't leave as well!" John told her, which made her shed a few tears. She still couldn't embrace the fact that her Eli left her alone with Dean and John. She understood his wish to go to university, but still…

"I'm dying, Uncle, there's nothing else I can do, but leave this place before I end up hurting you like they hurt me." She cried out.

"They didn't have a choice."

"They did, but they made a wrong one." She spat. "I'm actually glad that the pair believes I'm dead. After all, they discarded me, like you will soon."

"You're family, Annie-bear!" He said, hugging her tightly. "We love you."

"Yeah, especially Dean." She said sarcastically. He treated her like a kid, even though she's been hunting with them since she was 10. He treated her like an annoying pest, but she felt different about him. She had a crush on him…

"Everything will be fine, kid. I promise. You will survive this." Bobby joined the hug. It made Annie break down. She started crying, because of everything, her parents' betrayal, her constant seizures, her insomnia, her best friend's departure, her broken heart… But she was still happy, because even after everything, she had people she considered family, people who accepted her when her own family wouldn't and taught her everything she knew.

March 3rd, 2004

"Kiddo, please, wake up!" Bobby cried, looking at the girl in the hospital room. Somehow, fate decided that she will fall down the stairs and have a seizure in the moment when John and Dean are on yet another hunt. "Don't you dare die on me!"

"I'm sorry, Mr. Smith. Your niece, Miss Morgan, has only two more months left. She is in a coma, and we don't know when she will wake up" The doctor said. "It's a wonder she survived for this long…"

"She will die of old age, not because of this stupid thing" Bobby yelled at the doctor. He pulled out his phone and called his friend, a doctor who cured many people on their deathbed. "Is this Grayson Gilbert? It's Bobby Singer. I have a person I care about here. She's dying of a rare heart condition. Mystic Falls? How long will the treatment last? Three weeks? Oh, I see. I will bring her there today. Thank you, Grayson! I will owe you one!"

Bobby dropped her off and called John Winchester to inform him that Annie is in a coma and he called in for a favor of a Doctor he knew, so he could try treating her condition, which made John very worried, sad and angry. He wanted her to get better, he wanted to be there for her. When he finished his call with Bobby, he turned to Dean.
"Annie will be away for three weeks. She has to visit her Aunt Jenna." He lied to Dean. Annie never wanted him or Sam to know about her heart condition, so whenever she was sick, he'd tell them she was with her Aunt. It had happened so many times, that Dean disliked the girl because of it. She always left in the middle of a job, because she wanted to go to visit a member of her family, the family who discarded her for no reason.

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For two weeks, Grayson Gilbert thought he was experimenting on Miss Andrea Morgan, the niece of Bobby Singer. He used vampire blood to treat her. Her heart was in bad condition, he was surprised it still beat. This girl made him remember someone he was trying very hard to forget. He closed his eyes and shook his head, trying not to open the still fresh wounds. He had to put more vampire blood than he expected after each treatment, but after very difficult two weeks of the treatment, she was finally getting better. He knew that the kid will have to keep coming back at least twice a year for the next five or sic years, but he knew he could cure this condition.

"Where am I?" Were the first words she spoke when she woke up. They were directed to the woman who was checking up on her.

"Doctor will be here in a moment." With that she left, and was replaced by a very familiar face.

"You!" She croaked out. "Why are you here? Get away from me!"

"Do I know you?" He asked her. "I'm Doctor Grayson Gilbert. Your Uncle, Bobby Singer told me about your heart condition, and asked me if I could cure it. It will take three weeks, twice a year, for the next five or six years."

"I'd rather die than let you treat me any longer. I want to go home. Now." She spat. She wanted to get up, so she ripped everything that was connected to her and got up.

"Why do you hate me? I don't even know you"

"Of course you don't. How could you possibly know me, when you were the one who discarded me like trash in the first place?" She said.

"A-An…"

"Don't! I'm going home."

"I'm sorry, I…"

"I don't want to hear your apologies, Mr. Gilbert. I'd like to say it was nice seeing you again, but my Uncle taught me that I..." She was injected with a shot that made her fall asleep. After one more week, she was as good as she could be, Bobby picked her up, and she wouldn't speak to him. She wouldn't look at anyone, let alone speak to them. She would barely eat, she wouldn't sleep or get out of her room. She kept herself busy by reading the Hunters' journals, but she couldn't focus. She still knew that her Father treated her, and it opened her wounds and added a lot salt on them. She fell into depression, and built up walls so high, that the witch from Rapunzel would envy her for.

April 10th, 2004

"Will you, please, eat something?" John Winchester asked her just like he did every day since she got back. She shook her head at him. "Why? Because Bobby took you to the doctor? Because of the treatment?"

"Did he tell you which doctor it was?" Were the first words she spoke to him in weeks.

"No"

"It was Grayson Gilbert." She said. Let's just say that John's reaction wasn't pretty.

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

IN THE NEXT CHAPTER, WE WILL SEE SAM'S REUNION WITH DEAN AND ANNIE. DO YOU THINK DEAN WILL BE PLEASED TO KNOW THAT SAM SPOKE TO ANNIE, AND NOT HIM? WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN?

R&R

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