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BROKEN FAITH

Chapter 15— A Fading Light

Danielle's leg sprinted ahead, passing Dean and whipping around the corner and down an ally. She heard Dean yelling to her from behind, telling her to hold back since they didn't know what would be at the other end of the ally. The sound of his voice hit her ears but her mind didn't process it, her only focus was on getting to the troubled woman. Hitting the end of the ally, Danielle paused to listen to everything around her.

"Oh, now you want to stop. Look, are you crazy? You can't just go it guns blazing without knowing what's there."

"Dean, quiet I'm trying to figure out where to go from here."

Dean nodded silently, understanding that they had to find the source of the scream they had heard and fast. He heard stomping foot steps behind him and spun on his heels with his gun out and aimed. Sam gasped and jumped back putting his arm out to stop Jake. "Whoa Dean, relax."

"Don't come running up on people like that Sammy, I almost shot you." Dean whispered firmly.

Danielle heard a soft moan off to her left side, stepping out of the ally slowly she made her down the deserted road. She pulled her gun out from behind her waist band and brought it up, ready to fire if needed. She took a quick look over her shoulder to make sure the others were following her.

Turning back around Danielle was meant with and incredible force that smashed into her body, throwing her back 8 feet where her head snapped back and crashed down on a small bolder.

"Danni!" Dean cried out, moving to go to her unconscious side but was stopped when the wolf grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and threw him back against the wall. "Ugh, damn mother fucker!" He pulled his gun up and shot, missing it's her by inches.

Danielle heard Dean's voice call her name before her eyes closed and everything went dark on her.

"Never let your guard down Danni, always keep your eyes ahead and aware of everything around you."

A nine year-old Danielle nodded, moving back into her defensive stance. The young hunter to be had a look of determination in her eyes that no other boy or girl would ever be able to match.

"She's just a girl Mr. Mullen, she's can't fight. Not like me anyway." A boy yelled out, making fun of Danielle which only fueled her determination more.

A tall scruffy man that stood next to where the boy sat in a tree stump reached his arm out and smacked him in the back of the head almost making the boy fall. "Quiet Dean, from what I'm seeing Danielle here already out matches you. You know why? Because she wants it more, watch her; see how fluid her movements are, watch her eyes. She wants to be the greatest at what she does and she seems to listen to every word her father says. You could learn a thing or two from this little ball of fire."

The boy named Dean sent a glare over in Danielle's direction as she and her father began to train again. "Yes, sir." He grumbled, clearly displeased with his own dad's draw to Danielle and the praise he gave her.

Danielle ducked an attack from her dad, dropping to the ground and rolling to the side but was up on her feet just as quick as she was on the ground. She leaped back smacking the mock weapon from her father's hand, grabbing his wrist and flipping him to the ground. She put her knee on his chest as he lay on his back, with her mock weapon ready to pierce his heart.

He let out a booming laugh and smiled from ear to ear as he sat up, wrapping his arms around his daughter. "Very good Danni, you're getting quick and strong. I think I may need a few Advil for my back later. There's one thing I need to tell you, I need to make sure you know this now and you never forget it." Danielle nodded, waiting for her father to continue. "There is a sport on most monsters you'll encounter that will paralyze them; it won't work on demons but almost everything else. Most importantly vampires and werewolves, they're both quick and ruthless. If you hit them, hopefully with a long range weapon, right here" He pointed to the point on his left shoulder where it connected to the body. "They'll drop. Then you'll be able to kill them, but it has to be the left side and it must be a weapon connected to the heavens; something blessed or soaked in holy water."

The darkness faded away almost as quickly as it over came her. Danielle opened her eye, her vision hazy and her hearing muffled. She heard a soft popping which she could only assume was coming from one of the boys' guns, she also her soft voices that sounded like they were calling out her name.

"Dean! Actually aim please! You're gonna piss it off!" Jake had run over to Dean, pulling him to his feet as the monster dash toward its attacker.

"I gotta get to her before it sees that she's still down for the count, I can't lose her Jake. I won't." Dean pulled away from Jake, tightening his grip on his gun and bringing it up to take aim.

She sat up slowly, her head pounding, trying to open and close her eyes to clear her vision. In another moment she was able to see clearly and she instantly reached for her gun, crawling back a few feet where it had landed.

"Guys, down! I have a clear shot!" Jake and Dean dropped to the ground and Sam pulled the trigger of his own gun…Missing. "Shit! Up, up, up! Come on!"

"Dean look!" Sam pointed to Danielle. "She's up and moving." Sam wasn't the only one to notice that.

Dean let out a breath of relief but tensed immediate when he saw the beast move toward Danielle. "Danni, look out!" He tried to warn her but just before the words came out of his mouth the thing had leapt into the air and on top on Danielle.

Before she could reach it she felt something like a vice grip clamp onto her calf. She yelled out in pain, turning to see the werewolf's hand grasping her leg snarling with its teeth bared.

Danielle went to kick it, but the beast too no notice to her attack. She heard another shot go off and the monster released her, felling back at the impact.

The shot didn't kill it, Dean knew it wouldn't, but his .45 packed a punch. It was enough to knock the animal off Danielle.

Without a moment's hesitation, Danielle reached her hand out, gripped her fire arm tightly and took aim at the wolf's shoulder. When the shot was clear and she saw the perfect mark she would always remembered, she pulled the trigger and the animal dropped in an instant.

"Awesome shot babe." He said to her with a grin, always impressed with her tactics.

Danielle silently thanked her father before her head rolled back and she lay motionless on the ground.

Dean looked over, his smile dropping when she saw Danielle lying back on the ground. "Danni!" He ran over to her dropping to his knees, sliding to her body. He put his fingers to search for a pulse. "Danielle, wake up!" He struggled to find a soft thumping. "Jake! Sam! Get over here now!"

The two ran over, Jake come to Danielle's other side. He grabbed her wrist, check for the heart beat Dean wasn't able to find. "What happened she was fine a second ago?"

Dean shook her head. "I don't know, but I can't feel a pulse and she's not breathing." He began giving to give Danielle CPR.

"Dean, we should get her to a hospital. She took on hell of a hit to her head." Sam was kneeling at Danielle's head, gently moving it to show Dean the large gash in the back of her skull.

Dean continued with his compressions, whispering to himself. "Come on baby, don't leave me just yet. I need you to keep me in line here. Come on, just breathe."

The three men all sat around Danielle, praying Dean would get her heart beat back. There only focus was to save her. None of them saw the creature behind them moving, none of them saw it as it slowly move in behind Jake. When Sam saw it, it was already too late as the monsters hand drove itself into Jake's back and its teeth came down on his neck.

"JAKE!" Sam jump up, shot the beast in the face, throwing it back. He took aim again, shooting it on the chest until it stopped moving.

As one heartbeat faded, another one came back.

TBC

A/N: Yup, so there you go. Getting ready to wrap this up soon I think, a couple more chapters.

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-Jenna