How We Met
Would anyone believe me if I said that I rarely have long term ideas for these stories and mostly things get made up on the spot? That is basically how this goes. I still have no real idea on how Aria got back or where she was for that matter. I got a couple of thoughts but I'm not too sure on them. So basically whenever I say ideas are welcome, I mean it. I take them and I morph them lol.
"Now aim and fire, Dean. Don't stop to think too long, let your gut lead you." John Winchester instructed his young son. Dean took a deep breath then lifted his gun quickly and shot at the mannequin. He smiled proudly when he saw it hit right in the middle of the forehead. "Not bad."
"Not bad? It hit!" Dean pointed out.
"Which just proves you can hit a stationary target." John argued. Dean frowned and sighed. Just once, he wanted to hear that he had done a good job. Was that really too much to ask? His whole life was spent like this. For years they had moved, they had hunted, Dean had handled guns and protected his brother. He had been the perfect little soldier for his father.
Didn't seem to mean a thing though.
Dean climbed into the back seat of the Impala and looked over at his brother, sitting quietly with a book. He wondered if Sam ever felt left out during these shooting lessons. If he did, he never said anything.
"Might as well find a motel for the night." John muttered to himself as he drove.
"Is she going to be saved?" Sam asked, his head tilting up suddenly.
"Who?" John asked.
"The girl." Sam replied. Dean looked at his brother and frowned slightly, still not used to the way he spoke sometimes. "We have to help her. We gotta follow the smoke."
"Smoke?" Dean asked. He looked out the window then blinked at smoke rising up ahead of them.
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"Stay close." John instructed his sons as the three of them wrecked through the burning city, guns ready. Dean glanced at Sam, looking awkward with his large gun. He really hoped they wouldn't come across something that the youngest of them would need to shoot.
"Mom...mommy please...open your eyes." The soft begging brought them to a halt and their eyes all darted around.
"It's her." Sam whispered. Dean looked at him then looked where his brother was looking before he nudged his father. John followed the direction of his son's pointing and found several bodies on the ground and one young girl kneeling next to a woman's body. The Winchesters moved forward carefully, guns ready, but the girl paid them no attention. She turned instead to a man's body and shook it as she had shaken the woman's.
"Daddy wake up." Her voice was soft and heart breaking as she begged for her parents to be alright and open their eyes. Sam had already had his gun pointed at the ground, having no reason to aim at a defenseless girl who seemed barely older than himself. Dean slowly lowered his gun as he listened to the girl's begging, his heart clenching as the fear built up in her voice. "Please! Please mommy...daddy...please don't leave me!"
"Little girl." John called out. The girl screamed suddenly, only then noticing them. John quickly lowered his gun. "Hey, hey, easy...easy, we won't hurt you." He moved closer slowly and crouched down. "What happened here?"
"A man with yellow eyes." The girl answered. No one said anything for a long time after that. John stayed alert as he glanced around, wondering if Azazel would be making another appearance.
"What's your name?" Sam asked finally.
"Arianna Lewis." The girl replied.
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"How old are you, Dean Winchester?" Aria asked in a whisper.
"Old enough." Dean huffed, crossing his arms. Aria just grinned and shook her head. When she looked away to take in their surroundings, Dean relaxed slightly and let his eyes drift over her. He had to admit that she was cute, not like the women he had seen on TV but then again she wasn't exactly a woman...not yet anyways.
Aria had been with the boys for a few weeks now. John had originally just planned on getting her to a police station to get her taken care of but by the time they found one in the next town, each of the Winchester boys had grown to like her.
"You think we'll get in trouble?" Aria asked, climbing up onto a brick fence and walking slowly across it.
"My dad's gone." Dean reminded her. "And Sam's asleep. How much trouble can we get in?" Aria shrugged and turned around. "This is better than you waking everyone up with nightmares."
"Sorry." Aria muttered. Dean didn't give any reply, just stood there with his hands in his pockets and watching her. "Sam said you were four years older than him."
"Yeah?" Dean raised an eyebrow in curiousity, wondering what else Aria and Sam had been talking about.
"Mm-hmm." Aria replied, nodding. She swayed slightly and paused in her walking to regain her balance. Dean pulled his hands out of his pockets. "So if he's just turned eleven, that would make you fifteen." His eyes narrowed slightly and she smiled smugly as she twisted around to walk the other way. Unfortunately her twist was unbalanced and she toppled off the wall. Dean leapt forward and caught her before she hit the ground but ended up on the ground himself with her on top of him.
"Ow." He groaned, blinking rapidly to get the black spots out of his vision.
"Sorry." Aria muttered again, sitting up carefully. "Thirteen."
"What thirteen?" Dean asked.
"That's what I turned a couple months ago." Aria replied cheekily. "I'm right in between you two."
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Three Years Later
"I don't need back up!" Dean grumbled.
"Well good, who said I wanted to back you up, ingrate!" Aria snapped back.
"You two knock it off!" John ordered. Dean glared at Aria who just stuck her tongue out at him. They had been coming to odds more and more in the last few years and it had been driving John and Sam crazy with how often the other two argued and challenged each other.
"He started it." Aria grumbled.
"Enough." John sighed. "We all have to do this to trap that sucker and it won't work if you two keep bickering."
"I can get the back all on my own." Dean stated confidently.
"Sure you can." Aria mocked.
"Arianna, stop!" John snapped.
"Sorry sir." Aria mumbled. Dean smirked triumphantly.
"There's three entrances." Sam pointed out.
"What?" John asked.
"Look." Sam instructed, pointing at the map. "The front, the back, and a side one here that's underground."
"Damn it." John muttered.
"Me and Sammy could take that side one." Aria suggested.
"No, that's too dangerous." John argued. "I'll take the side, Dean you get the back, Sam and Aria, you two take the front, it's a less likely escape for them...safer." Aria rolled her eyes then glared at Dean and his smug little smile.
"How come you guys don't seem to like each other anymore?" Sam asked as he and Aria made their way slowly towards the front of the factory building.
"We liked each other?" Aria asked.
"For the first few months, almost year." Sam pointed out. "Just the last while you guys have been...grr to her each other." Aria looked at him and raised an eyebrow. Sam just shrugged and looked around. "You like him."
"What? Don't be stupid, Sammy." Aria argued.
"You've only been fighting with him since the whole girlfriend stuff during school." Sam informed his friend. Aria frowned, trying to find a way to argue. "Why not just tell him?"
"You're a dreamer, Sammy." Aria laughed. "Besides, it ain't a thing Dean Winchester will ever understand."
"But..." Sam started but got cut off when Aria spun around and pressed her lips to his. His eyes widened in surprise before drifting shut on their own accord. He leaned forward just slightly when she moved away from him and he felt his cheeks heating up.
"There ya go, something to hold over his head." Aria informed him as she winked. She paused and looked around. Sam watched as she tilted her head, shaking her hair away from her ear to listen better. "They're no where near us."
"Damn it." Sam muttered. The two of them hurried into the factory and looked around. Aria grabbed Sam and pulled him back just seconds before a body crashed through a wooden crate and landed where they had been standing. "DEAN!"
While Sam went to his brother's side, Aria took out her gun and looked around, listening to the sounds of people moving around. She hated feeling like a trapped rat and that was exactly the feeling she had now. All at once, several figured dived down at them, knocking Aria to her back and sending her gun skidding across the floor. She frowned and struggled against the one holding her down. Her eyes caught rows of sharp pointed teeth and her hand instantly shot up to push at her assailant's head. She could hear Sam struggling and yelling and knew she had to act quickly. With a wild lurch, she brought her leg up between the legs of her attacker and grinned in success when the vampire groaned in pain and fell off her. She rolled over and crawled quickly to her gun.
"ARIA!" Sam yelled out in warning. Aria's hand gripped the handle of her gun and she twisted around, firing just in time to hit another vampire in the throat before it attacked her. She fired at a vampire hanging over Sam then at one over Dean before John came in, guns firing at rapid speed, taking out the rest of the monsters.
"Everyone alright?" John asked. Sam and Aria nodded before they both looked at Dean who seemed to finally be regaining his consciousness. He groaned and rubbed his head before opening his eyes to look around. "Dean?"
"I'm in one piece." Dean muttered, sitting up slowly. Sam hugged him and Aria grinned at the brotherly affection.
"Let's get the heads off these suckers and burn them back to hell." John instructed. Sam helped Dean to his feet and both brothers turned to Aria. Sam froze and Dean's eyes widened and for a moment, she couldn't figure out what was wrong. A cold arm suddenly fell around her waist while an equally cold hand clasped around her throat. Aria's eyes widened in fear as she instinctively started struggling.
"Ari..." Dean muttered. He took the gun from Sam and held it up.
"Let her go!" John demanded, aiming his gun.
"You'll hit her." The vampire mocked, holding Aria as a shield. "It's to hell with you, my little friend."
"You first." Aria ground out. She locked eyes with Dean for a second before she twisted her head to the side just as he fired. She felt something hot graze her ear but was more concerned when she heard the dull thud of the bullet lodging into the vampire's neck. It's grip on her loosened and she wasted no time in elbowing her way free. She stumbled to the brothers and put her hand over her ear, feeling the stickiness of blood. Dean put an arm around her and held her to his side protectively.
"Are you alright, Aria?" John asked.
"Just grazed, sir." Aria replied.
"You three get to the car, I'll get this dealt with." John ordered. The teenagers didn't argue and Dean lead the younger two out of the factory.
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"Aria kissed me." Sam announced. Dean paused in his gun cleaning and slowly looked at his brother. The mentioned girl was currently taking a shower and John was out getting something for all of them to eat. Sam fidgeted slightly under his brother's gaze but didn't back down.
"Oh yeah?" Dean asked, not exactly finding it hard to believe but wondering why. Sure, Sam and Aria spent most of their time together and lord knows what happened when they were at school. But Aria was two years older than Sam. She wouldn't...would she?
"Yep." Sam replied with a slight nod and a small smile.
"When was this?" Dean asked.
"Just uh...outside the factory earlier." Sam answered.
"Huh...well then...congratulations on your first kiss buddy." Dean remarked. At that moment, Aria came out of the washroom with a towel around her body and her wet hair hanging over her shoulders. Dean paused before he could resume cleaning his gun and his eyes automatically shifted to travel up the girl's legs. Since when did Aria have nice legs?
"I forgot my clothes." Aria spoke up, realizing both of the Winchester boys were staring at her.
"Sammy told me that you kissed him." Dean blurted out.
"And?" Aria asked.
"It's true?" Dean asked, ignoring the glare his brother sent him. Aria rolled her eyes then decided on a plan. She picked up her clothes from the bed she shared with Sam (each of them keeping to their own side of course) then went to the younger brother, gently grabbed his chin, and pressed her lips to his yet again. Sam had enough sense to hide his surprise this time around. Aria patted his cheek affectionately when she moved away this time then grinned cheekily at Dean before returning to the washroom.
"That answer your question?" Sam asked, a small smile on his face.
"Son of a bitch." Dean muttered to himself silently. That seemed to bug him more than he had expected and he frowned slightly as he went back to work on his gun. He wasn't going to admit it, no way in hell after all the crap she put him through, but Dean was suddenly jealous that Sam got kisses from Aria before he did.
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Four Years Later
"Why can't he just go?" Aria asked, punching her fist into the face of a possessed high school cheerleader.
"Because that's just abandoning us!" Dean argued, kicking away a nerd. "And you're encouraging him to!"
"Oh please!" Aria rolled her eyes. "You know he's going to go anyways. Saying no and forcing him away from what he wants will only cause resentment."
"You need to stop listening to therapists." Dean grumbled. He ducked around another attack and sighed. "This whole damn school possessed or what?"
"Just the ones in here." Aria answered. "Keep me save, Winchester." She winked at him before shouting out the Latin words of the exorcism spell she favoured. All around them the demons convulsed and threw their heads back, black smoke flying free and escaping through doors and vents. Dean watched them in, keep an eye on Aria in case something decided to jump her. One by one the formerly possessed bodies dropped to the floor, unconscious but free.
"Good going." Dean remarked, sliding his knife away and patting Aria's arm.
"You too." Aria returned the gesture before taking his hand and heading out of the school. "You know I'm right."
"It's still abandoning." Dean countered.
"All Sam is doing is going to college." Aria countered. "He wants away from the hunting work for a while, is that so bad?" Dean frowned and sighed. Normally he would have argued more but Aria was giving him that look that seemed to go straight through him.
"You hear from my dad lately?" Dean asked.
"Not since Tuesday." Aria replied.
"Well at least we got the car." Dean remarked brightly. Aria laughed as they popped the trunk of the Impala and put their stuff away.
Over the last few years, They had grown up and stopped trying to antagonize each other as much. Dean actually accepted having Aria as his partner and was often grateful for her attention to detail on jobs. As they got into the car and he drove away from the school, he thought back to a few days ago when she had kissed him. It was the first real time she had done it, other times had been accidental or he had decided to do it just to shut her up from her ranting. But the other day had been the first real one. They had been sitting around in the hotel room at night, Sam fast asleep, and she had just outright asked him if she could kiss him. She never said why and Dean wondered about it on and off over the days.
"I'm hungry." Aria spoke up, turning down the music slightly to be heard without shouting.
"Yeah? Okay, we'll stop and get something." Dean agreed. "Wanna give Sam a call and ask him what he wants?"
"At this time? He's probably asleep or something." Aria pointed out. Dean chuckled and pulled into a fast food parking lot. Since it was going to be just them, they decided to go inside and eat.
Aria felt bad as she picked at her fries, purposefully taking a long time. She was covering up for Sam's big escape moment. She had tried to convince him that there were other ways of doing this but he kept pointing out that Dean and John would never understand. She knew Dean would be pissed when they got back to find Sam gone but she hoped she'd be able to calm him down without getting herself in trouble.
Besides, it was only for a couple of years, what bad could happen with Sam being away?
So there's how Aria met the Winchesters and how she grew closer to them. Just a few bits obviously, over the course of the years. That last bit is set about a year before Aria dies. I might put stuff in at some point about how Dean and Sam met Lily.