We pulled up to the motel and Dean parked the Impala. He climbed out but I stayed for a minute rubbing my hands over the dash remembering all I'd been through in this car. Truth was I missed my hunting life, dropping everything and just going, doing whatever I wanted when I wanted; truth was I missed Sam and Dean even John. I didn't realize how long I'd been sitting there until Dean leaned his head into my open window.
"Are coming?" I turned to make a comeback but it died on my lips when I realized just how close our faces were. He was leaning into the window both arms on the frame smirking. I just sat there for a moment before looking down and clearing my throat.
"Yeah I'm coming" I smacked his forehead playfully and pushed him off the door so I could get out. As we walked to the room he kept tilting his head to look at me. I pretended I didn't notice for a few minutes until my curiosity got the better of me. I stopped and turned to him.
"What is it Dean?" He looked surprised but quickly masked that with his usual smirk
"Nothing sweetheart" he joked before turning only to freeze when he realized what he said. "I meant um I just" I cut off his rambling.
"It's fine Dean, let's go before John has a heart attack. He smiled before going up to a door and putting in the room key. We both walked in to see John at a corner table looking over some papers. He stayed in his spot not looking up so we went and sat on the beds looking through some newspaper clippings. That's when John groaned, we both looked up at him.
"What's wrong Dad?" Dean asked worriedly.
"It says here her body was cremated so no salt-n-burn."
"Well it could still be an object, we just gotta find it" Dean murmured.
"Yeah but it could be anything" I decided to step in.
"Well I mean if the message is to Jared then I know what the object might be" They both turned to stare at me while Dean started laughing.
"Geez we should bring her all the time" I smiled before telling them.
"Well Jared has a necklace he keeps of hers. He gave it to her for their like 5 month anniversary or something."
"That's probably it; do you think you could get that?"
"I don't know that one would be a lot harder to get than the files" their faces dropped slightly "but I could try" They smiled at me, well John kinda smiled, and I went back to the clippings. About an hour later we had our plan. I was going to go in tomorrow like normal, when he went to his meeting I'd look for the necklace and grab it, if I couldn't find it I'd have to try and get him to tell me where it is, and then try to get it.
"Okay well since we have our plan I'm gonna head home, is that alright?" John nodded and told Dean to take me home. Once in the car I directed him to my house.
"So you actually live in a normal house?" he asked teasingly. I laughed before answering.
"It's pretty normal yeah, well except for Demon" He froze looking over at me.
"You have a demon in your house?" I laughed again but harder this time.
"NO demon is my dog" He relaxed a bit before laughing loudly.
"What?"
"You named your dog Demon?"
"Yes I did it's very scary sounding" He shook his head at my strangeness.
"Sure it is" I growled at him as we pulled up to my two-story, two bedroom house.
"Just you wait he'll eat you" Dean only laughed before looking at my house. "Nice place" he commented.
"Thank you" I smiled while pushing my key into the door. I was hanging up my jacket as Dean was closing the door when I heard Demon's claws hitting the hardwood of my room and flying down the stairs. Dean turned to the staircase in time to nearly avoid being smashed by Demon. He skittered to a stop in front of me and licked my hand.
"Hey boy" I murmured while I rubbed his ears. Dean was standing behind me eyeing the huge dog warily.
"So Dean you were saying about my baby" I mocked. He only laughed slightly and started to go into another room when Demon turned to get a look at him. He went forward and sniffed a now frozen Dean before licking his hand. Dean relaxed slightly and copied my motions by rubbing his ears. With that Demon went to the living room and plopped down by the couch.
"That's a big freaking dog" Dean whispered. I laughed at him before walking to the kitchen him following behind.
"Why are you whispering you afraid he'll here you" I opened the fridge "Want something?"
"Haha very funny and yeah I'll take something" He replied now talking normally. I pulled out two beers and two pre-made sandwiches. I set them down in front of Dean and received a muffled "Thanks". We sat in silence but it was a natural thing we did. He looked around the kitchen before back to me.
"So you got a boyfriend?" He asked casually although I could sense the underlying curiosity.
"No I um I just don't really date much anymore" I replied quietly. He looked up surprised.
"Like at all, what about yah know other stuff?" I laughed softly.
"Yeah I do that sometimes but I don't know I just really can't find the right guy."
"So if you found the right guy you'd get with em?" I sighed loudly and through my hands up.
"I don't know Dean, why do you care?" He looked down before back up at me.
"I just wanna make sure you're being safe that's all"
"You wanna make sure I'm safe" he nodded "That's freaking hilarious coming from the world's biggest damn man-whore ever" He whipped his head up glaring now.
"Sorry I was just trying to look out for you" Now I was angry and our voices were getting louder.
"Well I don't need you to look after me I've done fine on my own for four years now"
"Fine I won't look after you and when you end up dead somewhere because you were stupid I'm not gonna care" he screamed.
"Oh fine and when your penis falls off from all the girls you've been screwing around with I'm not gonna care" I screamed back, we were both standing now.
"You know I don't even know why I'm trying to look after your stubborn ass" He growled before turning and walking towards the door.
"Nice just go on and leave like you always do" I yelled following him to the door. He spun around to face me.
"Jesus you always make everything so damn hard" he screamed.
"I'm not the one who makes everything hard" I yelled back and then he kissed me. His hands went to my face and he pushed me back onto the door. My hands went around his neck and I kissed him back. His hands left my face and slid down my sides causing me to shiver. His tongue battled with mine for dominance and I moaned into his mouth. I slid my hands down and was reaching for his shirt when Demon barked making us both jump. I looked down at him breathing heavily since he never barked unless someone was around. I moved away from Dean, who was also breathing raggedly, and looked out the window to see Liz coming up my walk way. If she saw Dean I'd never here the end of it. Liz was a great friend, and always had my back. She was taller than me and extremely skinny although she ate like Dean did. She had short blonde hair that spike out at the bottom, which she dyed black. She had dazzling green eyes and a devious smile since she was always up to no good. She wore jeans mostly but would wear a skirt on occasion. She loved wearing girly clothes and jewelry yet she also loved to play baseball, volleyball, and goes dirt bike riding with me. Today she had snug jeans on with light green sneakers. She had a matching t-shirt and wore dangling silver earrings. In her hand she held me jacket I left over at her house a few nights ago.
"Shoot, shoot, shoot" I moaned turning to tell Dean to run but finding him right behind me. "Oh Jesus ,Dean you scared the crap out of me" I pushed him back and into the front room.
"Who is that?" He motioned his head to the door.
"That's Liz, she's my best friend, and if she sees you she will never let me live it down" He looked down at me curiously.
"Why?"
"Well because she knows everything" I paused looking at him "I mean everything and she doesn't realize I don't want you dead and if she see you she'll try and kill you"
"Wait you told her about me, hunting, everything?"
"Yes I did now please go upstairs and hide" He shook his head.
"Hell no I wanna meet her" He smirked. I moaned loudly and watched an emotion flicker pass Dean's face I chose to ignore.
"Well I don't care what you want to do I want you to" I was cut off by Liz knocking on the door. I froze and spun around to the door keeping both my hands on Dean's arms preventing him from answering the door.
"Hello Bailey answer the door" She yelled from the other side. She knocked again "I can see your car now open the damn door before I kill you" she joked. Dean pushed me back and went for the door but I lunged at him.
"No, no, no don't you dare" but he slid his arm around my waist and pulled me into his chest preventing me from moving and opened the door. Liz's face was priceless as she took in the scene of Dean holding me against his chest and me squirming to get free.
"I brought your jacket" She laughed out. I glared at her while Dean back up and invited her in. She smiled and said thanks all the while he still was holding me against his chest. She went towards the living room and started to pet Demon. I turned around in Dean's arms and looked up only to have my breath hitch in my throat as I realized how close, yet again, Dean's face was to mine. He stared at me before slowly letting me go and clearing his throat. I went and sat on the couch while Liz turned to me missing that last interaction.
"So thank for bringing me my jacket but I'm kinda busy so could you come back later?" I begged hoping she'd hear the hint of desperation in my voice. She seemed to but apparently didn't care.
"Nope sorry honey but I must grill your new boyfriend"
"Oh no he's not my boyfriend he's just an old friend and he's visiting and we were about to go out to see his Dad so yeah"
"Hmmm well at least let me introduce myself" she walked up to Dean and held he hand out "Hello I'm Eliza but you can call me Liz I'm the best friend, the craziest, and the awesome one" She smiled while Dean laughed he took her hand and opened his mouth to speak but I cut him off.
"This is Sam" Her eyes widened and she nodded her head.
"You must be Dean's little brother" she turned to me "You are such a liar he does not have puppy dogs eyes he's a hottie" she looked him up and down before continuing "His brother must be like amazing because you said he was hotter than Sam" she turned back to 'Sam' "No offense and Sam's like wowza so Dean must be" she fanned herself. "Anyways sit we need to talk and no Bailey I won't let you leave now" She dragged Dean to the couch and sat him down.
"Okay so I've heard some stories about the stuff you guys did when you were younger and I need to know the truth"
"Sure" Dean said looking awkward and I realized he was playing Sam I nearly died laughing.
"So she said you, Dean, and herself went to this chick's party and Dean took down five footballers by himself while you took on three, being younger obviously, is that true?" Dean nodded his head and started talking.
"Yeah well Dean never let's me go on my own since he's an ass and all" I held in a snigger "so I had to take on less but it's true we did that"
"Too cool" Liz smiled. "SO what else did you guys do or" she turned to look at me "what else did Dean and Bailey do?" Dean laughed and turned to me.
"Oh the stuff they did" he turned back to Liz "You would not believe" Liz leaned forward obviously intrigued.
"Oh please tell me she always leaves out the good stuff when talking about her time with the Winchesters"
"Yeah I guess I could tell you some stuff" I didn't let him finish his sentence by smacking him upside the head.
"But you won't because I'll kill you"
"Oh c'mon you have to tell me something Lee" Liz begged using her nickname for me.
"Fine" I yelled exasperated "But only one or two stories then Sam has to go meet up with John" They both nodded. We ended up talking about three or four stories but I let it slide. Liz finally left with a long goodbye telling me we'd have to talk about Sam later. When she finally left I leaned back against the door and breathed out. Dean came up to me and laughed.
"I like her; she seems to care a lot about you"
"Yeah she's helped me through a lot of hard times."
"So about earlier I um" he rubbed his neck nervously "It was a little unexpected and I um"
"Yeah I think we should be mature about this and forget about it" His head lifted in surprise while he nodded.
"Sure I mean that sounds like a good idea just act like nothing happened"
"Yup I couldn't agree more" I looked to the clock "You should get back so John doesn't have a spaz attack" He nodded and left. I went upstairs and flopped down on the bed, Demon jumping up beside me.
"I was so stupid Demon I should've stopped him or I don't know kicked him but I didn't I totally let him kiss me and I kissed him back" Demon groaned in what I thought was a "Oh no"
"Yeah I did and I can't go down that path okay I'll just totally forget about and I'll be fine" I smiled to myself thinking of the kiss and how normal it felt to kiss him again. Demon seemed to sense my thoughts because he barked at me and made a face.
"Oh fine I'm done" I rolled onto my side and put my arm around his neck. "I'm done" I murmured into his shoulder before falling asleep. In my dreams however I dreamt of a hot kiss between Dean and I.