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Broken Faith

Chapter Thirteen- Running is a Temporary Solution. NOT an Answer.

Dean woke the following morning to find he was the only one laying in bed, sitting up he looked around hearing the water in the bathroom shut off. Shortly after Danielle emerged from the bathroom wearing only the red button down shirt Dean had on the night before.

"Good morning." She cheerfully greeted with a smile.

Dean stretched his arms above his head. "Yup. You're up early."

Danielle frowned, walking over to sit on the edge of the bed she reached for her phone on the nightstand. "It's only 7. I've been up earlier, besides if we want to make it up to Albany in good time we need to leave soon."

He slid over, moving to sit beside Danielle with his legs off the bed. "Right. So I guess I should shower now since someone wouldn't let me last night."

"You could have said 'No, I think I'll shower now. Thanks'." Danielle shrugged nonchalantly as she stood and began to find something to wear.

Dean stood up, stretching once again, only to kneel beside Danielle. "Have you ever had to say 'No' to you? It's almost impossible." He kissed her cheek softly before standing and heading to the bathroom. "I'll be done in 15 minutes then we can hit the road." Danielle nodded to Dean as he entered the bathroom.

She pulled out a pair of worn, fitted, dark blue, low-rise jeans and her favorite red camisole. She grab a three-quarter sleeve red, black, and gray button up blouse to wear over the camisole. She was finished getting dress before Dean finished his shower. When he walked out she was pulling her wavy dark hair into a ponytail.

Dean stood in the doorway watching her messing with her hair with a smile. Enjoying the normalcy of the situation. Granted, they weren't heading into anything normal but the scene before him seem like something every other couple did when getting ready to go out.

After another moment, Danielle had turned around to see a smiling Dean hanging outside the bathroom. She shook her head, smiling. "You're so weird."

"How?" He asked moving to where his clothes were placed, pulling on an old pair of jeans over his black boxers and a slightly fitted plain black shirt. He sat down on the bed to put on a pair of socks and pull on his boots.

Danielle shrugged. "You're always stare." She stated simply, while kneeling down to tie her own boots.

"I'm weird because I watch you? I'm just making sure I see as much of you as I can, in case I fuck up again."

"Just don't worry about fucking up cause then I'm sure you will." She said as she stood up, walking to the bed and sitting beside Dean. "I'm not going anywhere Dean. No matter what stupid thing you do next, I'm not going anywhere."

Dean just stared at her for a moment, loving the way she looked at him with nothing but love in her gorgeous green eyes. "You're pretty amazing you know that?"

Danielle smiled, kissing his lips softly. "You're not too bad yourself Mr. Winchester. Now come on, we should head out."

The two walked out the door, with a smile on both of their faces. Dean went to the main office to check out as Danielle threw their bags into her car. She slid in the passenger seat, reaching over to start the ignition and waited for Dean. He walked over to the car with a look of confusion when he saw Danielle in the passenger seat.

"So…What's up?" Was all he could think to say.

"You drive. I don't want you to think I don't trust you with my car."

"You don't trust me with your car."

Danielle rolled her eyes. "Yeah but I don't want you to think I don't." Dean just stared blankly at her. "Just get in and drive, thanks." Dean smirk and slid in behind the wheel.

"What ever you say babe."

The couple was silent for a good portion of the ride, enjoying just being near each other. The ride to Albany would only be about 8 hours so Dean had said that he'd drive the full length if Danielle didn't want to drive. Once they reached I-88 the drive seemed to just fly by. They left the motel around 7:30 and even with stopping to eat once and for gas twice, even though they hadn't really need to stop the second time, they past a 'Welcome To Albany' sign at about 3:30. Dean figured with stopping it would have tacked on another hour at least but they got there right on time.

Before doing anything else they pulled into the parking lot of a grocery store to cal Jake and Sam up. Dean pulled out his phone pushing send as soon as he opened it, Sam being the last one he spoke. The line rung a couple time before it was answered.

"Hey man, you guys here?" Sam's voice finally answered.

"Yeah, How long have you guys been here?"

"Since about 12. Jake and me drove right through the night and got a room to start looking into this thing. It'd be a little easier though if we had that file Ellen gave you guys though, we found out a few things like the victims so far have been all young women between 20 and 27 and they are all brunettes. Which is strange, have you ever known a Werewolf to have a killing pattern?"

Dean shook his head, glancing at Danielle who was giving him a questioning look. "No. Never. Give Bobby a call, maybe he can give us some answers."

"Already did that man. He's never heard of something like this either but he said he'd check with his other contacts. He thinks it might be something else entirely, but he isn't sure what. The only thing I can't think of that would get mistaken for a werewolf is a skin walker but all these girls died during the right times of the lunar cycle so I'm not sure."

"So it's a wolf that's picky? What ever it is we have to find it and find it fast. We only have another 24 hours to end this thing."

"Yeah and you have it's meal choice riding with you. Kill it before it kills her. I hate to say it Dean but Danni is this things perfect match. We have to watch her back."

Dean gripped the phone in his hand, knowing Sam's word were true. As soon as this think knew there was new meat in town it'd come right for her. He's instinct was, for once, to turn and run. "I know, man. Listen where are you and Jake?"

"A motel just off of Main Street called Weston's."

"We'll be there in a few." Dean closed his phone, ending the call with Sam.

Danielle sat there staring at Dean, worried about his current expression which told her that the talk with Sam revealed some not so good news. "Hey Dean, what'd he say?" She asked softly putting her hand on his arm.

Dean looked at her and saw the concern on her face, concern for him. She had no reason to worry about him, there wasn't anything killing guys fitting his status out on the loose. He sigh, not wanting to tell her what he learned she'd find out on her own at some point. "This werewolf thing…Well it may not be a werewolf at all. This thing's got a pattern going on."

"What kind of pattern?" Danielle felt she already knew the answer but didn't want to be paranoid.

Dean looked her in the eye, seriousness in his voice. "Young, pretty brunettes. Basically you. Listen, we don't have to stay here we can-"

"Take off and let my brother and your brother take on a ruthless werewolf or other unknown monster? Yeah, not gonna happen Dean. Sorry."

"Danni I really think that you-"

"How could you even think the running is the answer? Throw me out a bait for the damn thing and we'll kill it!" She stare hard at him, daring him to contradict her.

He shook his head in frustration. "When you know your life is on the line sometimes the only answer is to run. Do you remember the last time we ran in to a werewolf? Or the last time you were used as bait? No, none of this is a good idea, and you know it."

"No Dean. Look I understand you're concern, I do. You want to protect me, but we aren't leaving. With me here I can draw it's attention, lure it out. We might just be cutting out search in half! And we need all the time we can get, which by the way we're wasting just sitting here having the start of an argument happening. Let's go met up with Sam and Jake and get to work."

Dean stared at her, feeling anger rise in him over her refusal to listen to him, before pulling the car out of the parking lot and toward the motel both their brothers were staying.. He knew she'd never just leave but she needed to just listen to him, he wouldn't loose her again especially if it could be a permanent thing.

TBC

A/N: Hey, remember me? Beat ya don't. Sorry for not updating. I've been trying to see where I wanted to move with this, work out more big picture details. I know I say sorry a lot, any of you reading other stories knows this…Sad, I know I swear I am sorry. I think I may have too many open stories. Which is just proof of my lack of focus. It's not my fault that when I get something in my head I run with it until it burns out and then months later I can pick it back up again. I suck I know. Don't leave me! I swear I'll be better! Well…I'll try. I hop you enjoy this new installment.

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3 Jenna