Disclaimer: I do not own Supernatural or any of its characters, I do however own Annie
Wendigo
Dean laughed as he watched Annabelle toss another M&M up into the air and catch it in her mouth.
"Hey," He nudged her in the arm with his elbow. "stop hogging the food."
Annie laughed and grabbed a small amount. "Open up for the choo-choo."
Dean opened his mouth and let Annie dump the small handful into his mouth.
"Choo-choo?" He asked around his mouthful.
Annie shrugged and chewed happily. "Would you rather I say airplane?"
"That's not funny." He sent her a look, reaching over and pinching her side. "Now, fuel me up, Baby."
Shaking her head and smiling, she complied and dumped another handful into his mouth, the smile falling from her lips as Sam sat up with a jerk beside her.
"You okay?" Dean asked as he swallowed the candy.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Came the reply.
Dean nodded and glanced at him out of the corner of his eye. "Another nightmare?"
Sam cleared his throat and looked out the passenger window.
"You wanna drive for a while?" He asked causing Annie's jaw to drop and Sam to laugh.
"In your whole life you never once asked me that." Sam smiled slightly.
"Just thought you might want to...never mind." Dean shook his head.
Sam sighed and looked at Dean for a moment. "Look man, you're worried about me, I get it and thank you, but I'm perfectly okay."
"Mmhmm." Was Dean's reply, Annie chewing the inside of her lip at his reply.
"All right..." Sam sighed. "Where are we?"
Pushing her hair aside to one shoulder Annie answered, "We're just outside of Grand Junction."
Sam nodded and pulled out a map. "You know what? Maybe we shouldn't have left Stanford so soon."
Annie bit her lip as Dean clutched the wheel a little harder. "Sam we dug around there for a week, we came up with nothing. If you wanna find the thing that killed Jessica..."
"We gotta find Dad first." Sam said dryly.
"Dad disappearing, and this thing showing up again after twenty years, it's no coincidence. Dad will have answers; he'll know what to do."
"It's weird man." Sam crossed his arms. "These coordinates he left us, this Blackwater Ridge."
"What about it?" Dean asked.
Sam looked over the map again as Annie went back to eating the M&Ms. "There's nothing there, it's just woods. Why is he sending us to the middle of nowhere?"
"Sometimes it's the things that look like they don't make since, but actually do make sense." Annie replied, both brothers staring at her with arched brows. "What? It's true."
"Yeah, right." Dean looked at her as he parked the car then got out. "Come on, let's go."
Annie climbed out behind Dean, pulling one of his sweatshirts around her a little more and followed him up the steps into the building, Sam heading off in one direction as Annie and Dean headed in another.
"So Blackwater Ridge is pretty remote. It's cut off by these canyons here, rough terrain, dense forest, abandoned silver and gold mines all over the place." Sam said as he walked over to Annie and Dean.
Annie's shoulders shook with laughter as Dean stared, wide-eyed, at a picture of a huge bear on the one wall.
"Dude," Dean said, amazed. "check out the size of this freakin' bear."
"And a dozen or more grizzlies in the area." Sam shook his head. "It's no nature hike, that's for sure."
The three turned as a man walked up behind them.
"You guys aren't planning on going out near Blackwater Ridge by any chance?" He asked.
"Oh no sir, we're environmental study majors." Sam said.
Annie nodded and added, "From UC Boulder, just working on a paper."
"Recycle, man." Dean pumped his fist causing Annie to roll her eyes and Sam to bite the inside of his cheek.
"Bull." The man said, looking at the three hunters. "You're friends with that Hailey girl right?"
"Yes, yes we are, Ranger..." Dean looked at his tag casually. "Wilkinson."
Wilkinson stared at him. "Well I will tell you exactly what I told her. Her brother filled out a backcountry permit saying he wouldn't be back from Blackwater till the 24th, so it's not exactly a missing persons now is it?" As Dean shook his head the Ranger nodded. "You tell that girl to quit worrying, I'm sure her brother's fine."
"We will." Dean nodded then grinned slightly. "Well that Hailey girl's quite a pistol, huh?"
"That's putting it mildly." Wilkinson said in a dry tone.
"Actually you know what would help is if I could show her a copy of that backcountry permit, you know, so she could see her brothers return date." Dean said smoothly.
Annie rolled her eyes as the three made their way out of the building, Dean smiling as he folded the copy of the permit the ranger had given him.
"What, are you cruising for a hook-up or something?" Sam asked, Annie taking note in the sharpness in his tone.
"What do you mean?" Dean arched a brow at his brother.
Sam frowned. "The coordinates point to Blackwater Ridge so what are we waiting for? Let's just go find Dad. I mean why even talk to this girl?"
"I don't know, maybe we should know what we're walking in to before we actually walk into it." Dean told him.
Annie nodded. "I'm kind of siding with Dean on this one, Sammy."
"What?"
"Since when are you all 'shoot first, ask questions later' anyway?" Dean asked.
"Since now." Sam frowned.
"Oh, really?" Dean arched a brow then nodded, letting Annie climb into the car then hopping in after her.
--
Following Sam and Dean up the walk, Annie stood behind them on the porch as Dean knocked on the door.
"You must be Hailey Collins. I'm Dean, this is Sam and Annabelle." Dean smiled as a dark haired woman opened the door. "We're rangers with the park service. Ranger Wilkinson sent us over, we wanted to ask you some questions about your brother Tommy."
"Let me see some ID." Hailey said to Dean.
Dean nodded and pulled out his fake ID and held it up, waiting as Hailey looked at it through the screen door.
"Come on in." She opened the door.
"Thanks." He smiled at her.
Hailey nodded and looked past the brothers and Annie towards the Impala. "That yours?"
Grinning and nodding, Dean said, "Yeah." Then waited until she walked further into the house to turn to Sam and Annie mouthing 'wow'.
"Keep it in your pants." Annie whispered as Sam pushed his brother into the house, closing the door behind him.
"So if Tommy's not due back for a while, how do you know something's wrong?" Annie asked.
"He checks in everyday by cell. He e-mails photos, stupid little videos..." Hailey said softly. "But we haven't heard anything in over three days now."
"Well maybe he can't get a cell reception." Sam suggested.
Hailey shook her head. "He's got a satellite phone too."
"Could it be he's just having fun and forgot to check in." Dean offered.
"He wouldn't do that." Hailey's younger brother spoke up.
"Our parents are gone; it's just my two brothers and me." Her voice cracked slightly. "We all keep pretty close tabs on each other."
"Can I see the pictures he sent you?" Sam asked.
"Yeah." Hailey nodded and pulled up the pictures on her laptop. "That's Tommy."
Hailey pressed the play button and the video started to play.
"Hey Hailey, day six, we're still out near Blackwater Ridge, we're fine, keeping safe, so don't worry, talk to you tomorrow."
Sam frowned and stared at the video, Annie looking more closely as well.
"Well, we'll find your brother, we're heading out near Blackwater Ridge first thing." Dean said, standing up to his full height from where he was bent, watching the video.
"Then maybe I'll see you there." Hailey said, ignoring the look Sam and Dean gave her. "Look. I can't sit around her anymore, so I hired a guide. I'm heading out in the morning and I'm gonna find Tommy myself."
"I think I know how you feel." Dean nodded.
Sam shot his brother a look then turned to Hailey. "Hey, you mind forwarding these to me?"
"Sure." Hailey replied.
--
"So, Blackwater Ridge doesn't get a lot of traffic, local campers, mostly." Sam said as Annie looked around the smoke filled bar, finally settling her eyes back on the table as Sam pulled out some newspaper clippings. "But still, this past April two hikers went missing out there, they were never found."
"Any before that?" Dean asked.
"Yeah," Annie nodded. "In 1982, eight different people all vanished in the same year. Authorities said it was a grizzly attack. And again in 1959 and again before that in 1936. Every 32 years, just like clock work."
Sam nodded in agreement and pulled out his laptop, turning it in the direction of Annie and Dean. "Okay watch this. Here's the clincher. I downloaded that guy, Tommy's, video to the laptop. Check this out."
Sam pressed play and it played frame by frame, Annie and Dean noticing a shadow passing the tent quickly.
"Play it again." Dean frowned.
Pressing play again Sam spoke, "That's three frames."
"That's a fraction of a second." Annie's brows shot up.
Sam nodded. "Whatever that thing is, it can move."
Dean reached over and smacked Sam's arm, grin on his face. "Told ya something weird was going on."
"Yeah. I got one more thing. In '59 one camper survived this supposed grizzly attack. Just a kid. Barely crawled out of the woods alive." Sam explained.
"Is there a name?" Annie asked.
Sam smiled and nodded his head towards the door, Annie nodding and getting up, Dean trudging along after the two.
Annie smiled slightly at the older man as she sat next to Dean.
"Look ranger, I don't know why you're askin' me about this. It's public record; I was a kid. My parents got mauled by a..."
"Grizzly?" Sam asked. "That's what attacked them?"
The man paused for a few moments then nodded slowly.
"The other people that went missing that year...those bear attacks too? What about all the people that went missing this year?" Dean started. "Same thing? If we knew what we were dealing with, we might be able to stop it."
"I seriously doubt that." He sent Dean a look. "Anyways, I don't see what difference it would make. You wouldn't believe me, nobody ever did."
"Mr. Shaw, what did you see?" Annie asked.
"Nothing. It moved too fast to see, it hid too well. I heard it though, a roar, like...no man or animal I ever heard." Mr. Shaw said as Annie gave a shudder.
"It came at night?" Sam asked him, Mr. Shaw nodding. "Got inside your tent?"
Mr. Shaw shook his head slightly. "It got inside our cabin. I was sleepin' in front of the fireplace when it came in. It didn't smash a window or break the door, it unlocked it. Do you know of a bear that could do something like that? I didn't even wake up till I heard my parents screamin'."
Annie frowned. "It killed them?"
"Dragged them off into the night." He replied. "Why it left me alive...been askin' myself that ever since. Did leave me this though." With that he opened the collar of his shirt, showing three huge claw mark scars along his chest. "There's something evil in those woods. It was some sort of demon."
Annie nodded and slowly stood, Dean right behind her. "Thank you, Mr. Shaw."
Mr. Shaw nodded and followed them to the door, closing it behind them.
Once back at the motel Dean, Sam and Annie climb from the Impala.
"Spirits and demons don't have to unlock doors. If they want inside they just go through the walls." Dean stated.
"So it's probably something else." Annie sighed.
"Something corporeal." Sam nodded.
"Corporeal? Excuse me professor." Dean said, giving his brother a weird look.
Annie laughed as Sam rolled his eyes, replying, "Shut up. So what do you think?"
"The claws, the speed that it moves, could be a skin walker, maybe a black dog." Dean shrugged. "Whatever we're talking about, we're talking about a creature and it's corporeal. Which means we can kill it."
Smiling, Annie followed Dean to the back of the Impala, watching as he opened the trunk and propped it up with one of his shotguns.
"We cannot let that Hailey girl go out there." Sam told Dean.
"Oh yeah?" Dean looked at his brother. "What are we gonna tell her? That she can't go into the woods because of a big scary monster?"
"Dean." Annie warned, staring at Sam, jaw dropped as he answered, "Yeah."
"Her brother's missing Sam. She's not just gonna sit this out. Now we go with her, we protect her, and we keep our eyes peeled for our fuzzy predator-friend."
"He's got a point Sammy." Annie shrugged.
"Finding Dad's not enough?" He asked as he slammed the trunk down. "Now we gotta babysit too??"
Dean and Annie didn't say anything, just stared at him for a bit.
"What?" Sam asked.
"Nothing." Annie said quietly.
"Nothing." Dean shrugged and tossed Sam his duffel bag, the three of them heading into their motel room in silence. Sam heading into the bathroom to shower, Dean and Annie sitting at the table to research.
--
Climbing from the car, Annie tried to keep up with Dean as he made his way to the back of the Impala, towards Hailey.
"Hey, you guys got room for a few more?" Dean asked casually.
"Wait," Hailey looked at the three of them. "you want to come with us?"
"Who are these guys?" A man stepped forward.
"Apparently this is all the park service could muster up for search and rescue." Hailey answered, Annie narrowing her eyes.
The man's brows shut up. "You're rangers?"
"That's right." Dean nodded.
"And you're hiking out in biker boots and jeans?" Hailey looked Dean up and down as Sam looked at his boots and Annie looked at her sneakers.
"Well sweetheart, I don't do shorts." Dean smirked and walked past her, Annie on his tail.
"What?" The man narrowed his eyes. "You think this is funny? It's dangerous backcountry out there, her brother might be hurt."
"Believe me, we know how dangerous this could get. We just wanna help her find her brother, that's all." Dean replied.
With that, the group started making their way through the woods, Dean staying closer to Hailey and Annie backing off and walking with Sam.
"Roy," Dean started. "you said you did a little hunting."
"Yeah, more than a little." Roy answered dryly.
"Uhhuh..." Dean nodded. "What kind of furry critters do you hunt?"
The elder shrugged. "Mostly buck, sometimes bear."
"Tell me, Bambi or Yogi ever hunt you back?" Dean asked, Annie sighing but stopped with Sam as Roy grabbed onto Dean. "Whatcha doing Roy?"
Roy stuck a stick down and a bear trap clamped up around it. "You should watch where you're stepping...ranger."
"It's a bear trap." Dean said.
Hailey stared at Dean and started ranting, Annie and Sam walking past them and following Roy.
"Your brother is so digging us a hole." Annie muttered.
"Deeper and deeper." Sam agreed.
"Wanna play I Spy?" Annie grinned, bumping her hip into him as they walked.
Sam snorted quietly and shook his head. "Not at the moment."
Annie grinned and nodded. "Yeah. Everythinghere is either green or brown. Totally a sucky game."
Sam smiled softly and continued walking, sneaking small glances Annie's way every once and a while.
"20 bucks says Dean gets in Hailey's pants." Sam said a little while later.
"I think she was wearing shorts, Sammy." Annie said with a straight face, breaking out into a grin as Sam laughed. "20 bucks says she turns him down."
"You're on." Sam held his hand out.
"You're so going down Hammy Sammy." Annie shook his hand.
Sam groaned and looked up at the sky. "Hammy Sammy? You're gonna start calling me that again? I can't help it I was chubby when I was 12!"
Annie laughed and softly bumped into Sam, both stopping as Roy stopped and looked around.
"This is it...Blackwater Ridge."
"What coordinates do we have?" Sam asked.
"Uh..." Roy pulled out his GPS. "35- 111."
"You hear that?" Annie whispered to Sam.
Sam nodded and looked around. "Yeah, not even crickets."
"I'm gonna take a look around." Roy said.
"You shouldn't go off by yourself." Sam shook his head.
Roy smiled a smug smile. "That's sweet. Don't worry about me."
"All right, everybody stays together." Dean announced. "Let's go."
"Hailey, over here." Roy called.
Hailey took off after Roy's voice, the others on her tail.
"Oh my God." She whispered horrified at the sight of the torn tents and blood splattered everywhere.
"Looks like a grizzly." Roy stated.
"Tommy?" Hailey called as she dropped her backpack onto the ground. "Tommy?!"
"Shh." Annie hushed her as she looked around.
"Tommy?!" Hailey called again, ignoring Annie's warning.
"Shhhh." Sam hushed at her as he placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Why?" She asked, looking at him like he was stupid.
Annie moved to stand beside Sam. "Something might still be out there."
"Sam!" Dean called.
Placing his hand on Annie's arm, he nodded his head in the direction of Dean. "Come on."
"The bodies were dragged from the campsite. The tracks just vanish. That's weird." Dean said as Sam and Annie reached him. "I'll tell you what...that's no skin walker or black dog."
Dean walked over to Hailey and crouched down when her shoulders shook as she picked up a busted phone.
"Worried you're gonna lose 20 bucks?" Sam asked.
Annie scoffed and looked at him like he was crazy. "Hell no."
The smiles fell from their faces as yelling came from the distance, the group taking off, finally stopping and looking around for the person that was yelling.
"It seemed like it was coming from here, didn't it?" Hailey asked.
Annie exchanged glances with Sam as Sam ordered, "Everybody back to camp."
Once back at the camp everyone looked around, noticing their supplies had disappeared.
"So much for my GPS and my satellite phone." Roy mumbled.
"What the Hell is going on?" Hailey demanded looking at Dean.
"It's smart." Sam answered.
"It wants to cut us off so we can't call for help." Annie nodded.
Roy stared at the two. "You mean someone. Some nut job out there stole all our gear."
"I need to speak with you two...in private." Sam said exchanging glances with Dean and Annie, the three walking away from the others at camp. "Let me see Dad's journal." Sam took it from Dean and flipped through the pages. "All right, check that out."
Dean and Annie looked over the page that had a figure drawn on it.
"Oh come on." Dean shook his head. "Wendigos are in the Minnesota woods or northern Michigan. I'ver never even heard of one this far west."
"Think about it Dean, the claws, the way it can mimic a human voice." Sam whispered harshly.
"Great." Dean muttered and pulled out his pistol. "That means this is useless."
Annie swallowed and looked up at the sky. "Fantastic."
"We've gotta get these people to safety." Sam said as he handed Dean the journal and they made their way back to the campsite. "All right listen up, time to go. Things have gotten more...complicated."
"What?" Hailey asked.
Roy stared at Sam. "Kid don't worry, whatever's out there, I think I can handle it."
Sam shook his head. "It's not me I'm worried about, if you shoot that thing you're just gonna make it mad. We have to leave now."
"One: You're talking nonsense. Two: You're in no position to give anybody orders." Roy told him.
"Relax." Dean said moving forward a bit.
"We never should have let you come out here in the first place, all right? I'm trying to protect you."
"You protect me?" Roy looked at him, laughter in his eyes. "I was hunting these woods when your mommy was still kissing you goodnight."
Annie gulped and looked between the two brothers, knowing how sensitive they were when it came to their Mother.
"Yeah?" Sam gave him a hard look. "It's a damn near perfect hunter. It's smarter than you, and it's gonna hunt you down and eat you alive unless we get your stupid sorry ass out of here."
"You know you're crazy right?" Roy laughed.
"Yeah? You ever hunt a wen--" Sam started but stopped as Roy pushed him.
"Roy!" Hailey called.
"Chill out." Dean said in a hard tone, pushing between Sam and Dean, Annie grabbing onto the back of Sam's jacket to hold him in place.
"Stop; stop it, everybody just stop." Hailey spoke up. "Look, Tommy might still be alive, and I'm not leaving here without him."
Dean looked up at the darkening sky. "It's getting late. This thing is a good hunter in the day, but an unbelievable hunter at night. We'll never beat it, not in the dark. We need to settle in and protect ourselves."
--
Annie and Dean came back to the campsite with the firewood they'd just gathered up. Annie went and sat next to Sam as Dean started drawing symbols in the dirt for protection.
"They're Anasazi symbols. It's for protection. The wendigo can't cross over them." Dean told Hailey, narrowing his eyes as Roy laughed. "Nobody likes a skeptic, Roy."
Dean dropped his stick and walked over to Sam and Annie, sitting down beside Annie, across from Sam.
"You wanna tell me what's going on in that freaky head of yours?" Dean asked, small smile tugging at his lips.
"Dean--"
"No, you're not fine. You're like a powder keg man, it's not like you. I'm supposed to be the belligerent one, remember?"
Sam sighed and looked down. "Dad's not here. I mean that much we know for sure, right? He would have left us a message, a sign, right?"
"Yeah, you're probably right. To tell you the truth I don't think Dad's ever been to lost creek." Dean agreed.
"Then let's get these people back to town and let's hit the road, go find Dad. I mean, why are we still here?"
"This is why." Dean said, lifting their Father's journal. "This book. This is Dad's single most valuable possession everything he knows about every evil thing is in here. And he's passed it on to us, I think he wants us to pick up where he left off, you know saving people, hunting things. The family business."
Annie smiled softly at Dean's proud smile.
"That makes no sense. Why doesn't he just call us? Why doesn't he tell us what he wants; tell us where he is?" Sam asked his eyes broken.
"I dunno." Dean shrugged. "But the way I see it, Dad's giving us a job to do and I intend to do it."
Sam shook his head. "Dean, no. I gotta find Dad. I gotta find Jessica's killer. It's the only thing I can think about."
"Okay, all right, Sam we'll find them I promise." Dean told Sam. "Listen to me, you've gotta prepared yourself. I mean this search could take a while, and all that anger, you can't keep it burning over the long haul, it's gonna kill you. You gotta have patience, man."
Annie looked up as Dean snickered quietly, a small smile breaking out onto Sam's face.
"Oh come on!" Annie smacked Dean. "It's not my fault my Father wanted to name me Patience Leigh! My parents were weird...and possibly on drugs."
"Help me! Please! Help!"
The three hunters heads shot up and looked around.
"He's trying to draw us out." Annie stated.
"Just stay cool, stay put, inside the magic circle." Dean told everyone.
"Help! Help me!"
"Okay," Roy said as he looked around. "That's no grizzly."
Hailey hugged her brother close to her. "It's okay, you'll be all right I promise."
"It's here." Sam said, squinting as he looked into the woods.
Roy leveled his gun and shot at the Wendigo. "I hit it!"
With that Roy took off into the woods after it.
The hunters went to take off, Dean stopping and pushing Annie back a little. "Stay with them. Keep an eye out."
Annie nodded and watched as the brothers took off into the woods, hearing Dean yell, "Roy!". A little while later the two came back, no Roy to be seen.
--
"Number one memory that will always be stuck in your mind." Sam asked as he and Annie walked side by side.
"Ooh." Annie chuckled and rubbed her hands together. "When you walked in on me getting out of the shower when I was 17."
Sam choked and started coughing as a blush creeped its way across his face. "That- That was an accident, Dean told me t--"
Annie laughed and shook her head. "What's your number one memory?"
"Uhh..." Sam blushed again and scratched the back of his neck. "That one summer when me, you and Dean went swimming in the motel pool and your top fell off...and Dean and I kinda played 'keep away'."
"Okay. One: It didn't fall off. Dean pulled my top off. Two: It so wasn't kinda playing 'keep away', you were totally finding it hilarious!"
Both looked at one another as slow grins appeared on their faces and laughed, stopping when the Wendigo let out a growl somewhere in the woods, then looked over as Hailey screamed and Roy's body fell from a tree.
"Okay run, run, run, run! Go, go!" Dean yelled.
The group took off running, Sam stopping as Ben tripped and fell, Annie stopping when Sam stopped.
"Seriously?" Annie rose a brow at the boy on the ground. "Isn't supposed to be the girl that falls?"
"Annie." Sam stared at her as he helped Ben off the ground.
"What, I'm serious. It's always the girl that trips and falls, twisting her ankle, then just sits there and cries until the hot guy comes to save her."
Shooting her a pointed look, Sam started walking as he yelled, "Dean!!"
"If it keeps its victims alive, why did it kill Roy?" Ben asked a while later.
Annie shrugged and wiped the sweat from her forehead. "Because he pissed it off."
Ben shot her a dirty look and walked ahead, Sam bumping into her. "Did you have to call him a girl?"
"I didn't call him a girl! I said it's the girl that always falls!" Annie exclaimed. "Totally a difference. I could call him a girl if you wanted me to."
"Annabelle Carlisle Poole." Sam warned.
"They went this way!" Ben called.
"Stop picking, let's go." Sam told her and made his way over to Ben, Annie right behind.
Annie laughed as they followed the trail of M&Ms.
"I'm shocked he even considered dropping them onto the ground." She smiled and shook her head, frown replacing it as she looked up at the tunnel. Grimacing at the signs that read "Keep Out." "No Admittance".
"Stay close." Sam whispered to Annie as he placed her behind him as they walked down the tunnel.
Annie nodded and let out a shriek as the floor creeked and gave out from under them, the three falling down to the ground below where skeletons were piled around.
"Ew." Annie shuddered and crawled backwards into Sam.
"You okay?" He asked.
"Yeah, just grossed out." Annie answered as she stood. "You all right Ben?"
"F- Fine." He stuttered out and stood quickly.
Annie nodded and looked to Sam, whose foot falls rushed.
"Oh God, Dean!" Annie's heart dropped at the sight of Dean hanging from the ceiling.
She rushed over as Sam finally got him awake and asked, "You okay?"
Dean winced and nodded. "Yeah."
Annie nodded and raised her hand, slapping him across the face. "Don't you ever run off without us like that again!"
"Son of a bitch." Dean hissed out and flexed his jaw, wincing as Sam cut him down.
"You sure you're all right?" Sam asked, trying to hide his smile as Ben got Hailey down.
"Perfect." Dean gave a tight smile. "Where is he?"
"Gone for the moment." Annie sighed.
Hailey stood and whimpered as she noticed her other brother hanging from the ceiling, screaming when he jerked his head up.
"Cut him down." She shot a look in their direction, Sam nodded and complied.
"Check it out." Dean grinned from the corner and held up a gun.
"Flare guns...those'll work." Sam smiled.
Annie grinned and reached for one, Dean pulling it out of her reach and started down a tunnel, the others following.
"What the Hell." She frowned.
"Mr. Brenaman's house." Dean arched a brow.
"Oh come on." Annie crossed her arms. "I was 19 and drunk. Besides, old man Brenaman was dead, the house was abandoned!"
"Sam, no flare guns for Annie." Dean tossed a gun in Sam's direction as the Wendigo growled. "Looks like someone's home for supper."
Hailey gulped and shook her head. "We'll never outrun it."
Dean looked towards Sam. "You thinking what I'm thinking?"
"Yeah," Sam nodded. "I think so."
Annie frowned. "Shit."
"Listen to me." Dean called to the group. "Stay with Sam, he'll get you out of here."
"What are you gonna do?" Hailey asked him.
Dean winked at her and went to move forward, stopping when Annie spoke up.
"Expect another slap after this Dean." Annie told him.
"Can't wait." He grinned.
"I said slap not spank, Dean." Annie smiled.
"You can shake me baby, just don't break me." Dean grinned and shrugged and walked down the hall.
Annie smiled and rolled her eyes, following after Sam and the others.
Sam's head shot to the side as the Wendigo growled near them, then turned to Annie. "Get them outta here."
"Sam..."
"Go!"
"God damn it, I'm slapping you too." Annie huffed and helped Hailey limp Tommy down the tunnel, towards the end of the cave.
The girls turning at hearing a gunshot to see Sam running towards them.
"You all right?" Annie asked.
Sam only nodded and pushed them to the end of the tunnel. "Get behind me."
Annie winced and grabbed onto Sam's jacket as the Wendigo let out a roar then peeking out around as a gunshot went off, seeing the Wendigo go up in flames.
"Not bad, huh?" Dean smirked.
--
"You okay?" Sam asked Annie as they stood out of the way, watching Ben give his report to an officer.
"Yeah, I'm fine."
"Okay, good." Sam turned to head to the Impala.
"Hey Sam?" Annie called.
Sam turned and arched a brow, wincing at the slap Annie placed to the side of his face.
"Hey, I told you I was gonna do it." She shrugged.
"Come on." Sam rubbed his cheek while rolling his eyes, he and Annie walking over to the Impala, just catching the kiss Hailey placed on Dean's cheek before she walked over to the ambulance.
"Looks like you owe me 20 bucks, Mister." Annie whispered to Sam, smile on her face.
"Hey, you guys all right?" Dean asked as he stood from his spot from against the Impala.
"I'm good." Sam answered as Annie replied, "Yep."
Dean looked at Sam hesitantly. "Sam, you know we're gonna find Dad, right?"
"Yeah, I know. But in the mean time...I'm driving." Sam said and caught the keys Dean tossed his way.
"Hey Dean?" Annie walked behind him.
"Yeah?" He turned and winced as Annie slapped him, then laughed lightly as she pulled him into a hug.
"Don't ever scare me like that again." Annie whispered and held him close. "Please?"
Dean nodded slightly, feeling Sam's eyes on him. "Let's get out of here."
Annie nodded and climbed into the middle of the seat and Dean climbed in behind her, reaching back and pulling out a bag of M&Ms from the backseat.
"I still can't believe you even considered dropping your 'food' onto the ground." Annie smiled as she reached over and grabbed a handful.
"Well if I hadn't, I'd still be stuck there and I would never get the chance to have you mess me up." Dean grinned.
"Ooh so true." Annie nodded. "And then you'd never be able to tell your future children that your friend Annie used to slap you around."
(A/N: 1. The "Patience Leigh" part I felt like I had to use. It's what my Mother wanted to name me, but my Grandma told her to have mercy on me and not name a child that. Sooo, my Father named me. 2. The "Hammy Sammy" part is from me, it's my mini poodle's (Sammy) nickname I gave her. -Kalli)
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