DANNY POV

It's been two weeks since my encounter with Sam. Adora and I had made it back to the Hunters Lodge where we rented a room for a few days. Adora sat on the bed, her nose stuck in a book while I tried to return my roots to the bleached color they were before. If we wanted to be safe we'd have to keep up appearances, or so Adora said.

I sighed, "How long do we have to keep this stuff in our hair?"

"As long as we need it." She didn't even look up from her book as she said that. "Besides that damn Winchester is still looking for us. We got a lucky break when Sam said he'd put Dean off our trail but we can't expect that to hold forever."

My eyes fell to the ground, truthfully I couldn't stop thinking about Sam since I met him that day. Of course I told Adora what had happened. We tell each other everything. I couldn't help wondering, Why did he agree to help us? What does he gain from that?

"You think they'll come here looking for us?" It was more of a statement than a question but she answered none the less.

Adora dropped her book and her green eyes held a stare I couldn't hope to match in ferocity. "Yes, in fact there's no doubt. The Winchesters won't stop looking. There's no case they took that they didn't finish. Or so the word on the street goes."

My mind pondered these thoughts, if Sam and Dean were as formidable hunters as everyone says...then we were in a hard fight-

"FIRE! EVERYONE OUT!" A man burst open our door screaming at us. Adora jumped out of bed knife in hand. But the man was gone as soon as he came leaving our door open to the sounds of a frantic crowd of hunters. A wave of smoke filled my extra sharp nose the minute the door was opened.

Adora burst into action, she abandoned her book on the bed and rushed to the only hunters bag we'd managed to obtain in our time back at the Lodge. My hair was still wet and leaving now would cause major problems in the drying process. I cursed our luck and followed Adora out the door.

When we got out the fire was worse than we thought. Dark smoke filled the halls and bright orange light could easily be seen. Screams of panic were heard everywhere. The smoke stung my eyes and made it hard to see. Adora saw my issue and grabbed my wrist. She led me to the stairs that went downstairs. As we made our way past a door that had smoke coming out from the bottom, a scream for help erupted from the other side.

"DADDY! DADDY WHERE ARE YOU? I'M SCARED!"

I stopped dead in my tracks. There was only one person that the voice could belong to. A hunter checked in to the lodge a couple days after Adora and me. He had a daughter who was only eight. She was all he had ever since a vampire killed his wife. She was also the only child in the lodge. I stopped and pulled my wrist from Adora's grasp. Adora turned back, surprised.

"Danny?! What are you doing? We have to get out of here!"

I just stared at her before turning to the door. I backed up a little and then kicked the door down with my heel. It took a few tries but the door slammed open. The smoke fell out of the open door, billowing around everything until I couldn't see. But I could hear her screams, that's all that I needed. I changed into wolf form to better escape the smoke and used my sharp hearing to track down where the cries came from.

A little way into the room she was crying out, between the wall and the bed she hid herself, and was choking violently from the smoke.

"HELP!" Her voice cracked and she choked out one last cry before doubling over herself in a fit of coughs. I slowly slid between the wall and bed, approaching her without scaring her. She saw me and her eyes widened thinking immediately I was a threat. I bowed my head and she got the message, she grabbed the scruff on my neck and held on tightly. I backed up and pulled her out. Back into the fire I saw Adora barking a warning to me in her wolf form. I couldn't hear what she said as the ceiling toppled in front of us, bringing a burning lump of, what smelled like burning flesh, down with it.

I cringed but carried on. The girl was clinging to my back, hugging my neck with all her might. She was just barely big enough for me to carry, any bigger she would have slipped off my back. I looked back at her to see she pulled her head into my fur, she was gripping the skin with her nails. I knew she had a tight grip so I jumped up onto the bed and raced parallel to the fallen debris until I reached the front door.

I crashed out of the room, knocking down the remnants of the door. Adora was close behind me. We both raced down the hallway. I didn't have to see behind me to know that the fire was racing after us at a breakneck speed. It seemed everyone had already evacuated, good thing too cause it looked like the building was ready to come down on top of us.

Eventually we reached the open exit doors, Adora and I ran down the front steps, I nearly tripped over my own two feet. Most of the hunters must have gotten in their cars and left because the parking lot was near empty, save a few choice people who gathering arms from their trunks. I immediately felt something was wrong when I saw every remaining hunter with a rifle in their hands.

We hadn't been seen yet and I assumed that was a good thing. Adora we should get out of here. They'll know we are supernatural creatures!

I know but what about the girl?

It wouldn't be long before the hunters noticed us, I decided it better we be gone then put everyone at risk. I slinked away into the forest under the cover of the leaves. Adora followed. The eight year old on my back seemed to be asleep, but her grip didn't lessen.

There's nothing we can do right now. We'll have to find her father later. I turned around and realized just how true I was. The hunters were now firing at something coming up on the other side of the Lodge. When it approached we saw that a horde of vampires, shifters, djinn, demons and about every other supernatural creature I could think of all start ripping the hunters to shreds.

Adora's eyes widened in fear, We need to leave...NOW!

SAM POV

Dean stopped the impala by the place that we were told the Hunter's Lodge was. I tried to keep Dean off the wolf girl's tail but he had proven persistent. He asked a hunter acquaintance if he knew the wolf shifters. The hunter had told him he'd seen them at the Hunter's Lodge and even wrote down directions. He claimed he was going there himself for a place to sleep for at least one night with his eight year old daughter.

"This is the place?" Dean asked incredulously. "There's nothing here."

I couldn't believe what I was looking at. The place where the Hunter's Lodge was supposed to be was...ravaged. The only thing that remained was smoldering ruins. Dean turned off the car, I followed him out. As we approached we could see the bodies, some looked like hunters others I could tell were monsters. I lifted the lip of a scorched corpse, an extra set of vampire teeth came out when I pressed on the gums.

"Dean, whatever happened here was...huge." I looked around at the pure destruction around us. "Hunter's, vamps, sulfur? Something huge happened."

"Looks like a bunch of freaks got together with their buddies and pulled a mob attack on this place."

"Why?"

"Hell if I know. Those shifters aren't here though."

"You think they survived?"

"I think it's possible. We should keep looking." He concurred his gaze resting on the burning lodge.

For the wolf girl's sake, I hoped she was still running.

DANNY POV

I felt a small body on my back stir. The little girl we rescued was waking up. Her grip tightened and she seemed to panic. When I noticed her jump I stopped and let her off my back.

She looked scared. Her brown eyes were wide with fear. I looked to Adora on my left. She was sniffing the air, staying alert for any dangers around. I turned back to the little girl, and rested my head on her lap. I gave her the puppy dog eyes, those always worked. Soon enough the little girl was petting my neck, enough for her reassurance as it was for mine.

"Danny." Adora began, communicating the way we always did when in wolf form. "How is she?" She asked taking a seat behind me. As intimidating as Adora made herself look she actually had a heart of gold. I knew Adora wasn't heartless, even is she had hardened her heart to the point of no return.

"I think we should try talking to her. I remember the man that brought her to the Lodge, we should try to get information from her so we can find him. If he's even still alive."

Adora nodded her agreement and changed back into a human. She was sitting in an odd position now, her arms between her stretched out legs. Unlike regular shifters we kept our clothes when we transformed. Neither of us knew why, maybe it was some part of our power. Our clothes just sort of transformed with our bodies when we changed into wolves.

I felt the little girl jolt. She was so startled when Adora turned back into a human I thought she was going run away. I lifted my head to her and put my paw on her lap. I knew she could tell I wanted her to stay. Without warning I changed back into a human as well.

"What are you?" She asked in a small cracked voice.

Adora and I exchanged looks. "We're… a kind of shifter." She explained slowly. I was expecting the girl to run away, after all we did just tell her we were the monsters that her father hunts. She stayed put though, the only indication of recognition she'd given was a slight widen of the eyes.

Then after a long silence, "Like the kind my dad hurts?" Both of us were silent. We didn't want to answer her. Telling her the truth could mean she wouldn't trust us again. If she doesn't trust us there's no telling what she would do to get away. "He says he just helps people by taking away the bad guys but I know that he hurts them...sometimes really bad. Are you the kind he hurts?"

"Yes." Adora said with that brutally honest voice she obtained over years of tragedy.

The little girl let her head fall. "But we don't want to hurt you." I spoke up then. "In fact we don't want to hurt anyone. You see we're not like all the other monsters who kill innocent people. In fact we're hunters. Like your dad."

"Why are you hunters?" She asked suddenly. I heard Adora gasp the tiniest bit. She doesn't tell many people what she told me, the reason she'd become a hunter. It was a hunter's story like any other. A kitsune had broken in to her family home and killed all of her younger siblings along with her parents. Adora was only ten, she watched her family get murdered. I knew she blamed herself for not doing anything to try and save them, what could she have done. She was only ten, as I kept reminding her. Whatever happened though Adora's thoughts had stayed the same. She was ashamed of not preventing her own family's tragedy and to make up for it she vowed to become a hunter.

I met Adora after she became a hunter, a few years after her family was killed. The only reason I'd become a hunter with her is because she saved me from a demon attack. I would have been killed by that demon had Adora not stepped in and killed him first.

"For the same reason any other hunter becomes what they are." I answered her while Adora shook off painful memories. "Why did your father become a hunter?"

"He says it's because Mama deserves justice."

I winced when she said what I could only guess was the death of her mother that she probably hadn't witnessed but still felt the full loss of.

"What's your name?" I asked, moving into a more comfortable position. I sat cross legged listening intently to what her answer was.

"Lily."

"And your father's name?"

"Julien."

"We want to help you find your father again. Is there anyone you know who could take care of you? Anything your father told you to do if you two ever got separated?"

Lily dropped her head again. "He said the Hunter's Lodge would always be our safe spot…"

I shivered at the thought of going back there. Although it might be the safest place to go now. The lodge was burned down and any hunter's trying to escape had been killed by the hordes that stormed the place. No one would expect anything to be remaining there now. Not after we'd travelled half a day. By the time we got back to the Hunter's Lodge everything should be died down.

"You think we should go back and wait for her father to find her?" I turned to ask Adora.

"I think that's a pretty big assumption. We don't even know if he will."

I thought for a minute. Then asked Lily; "Where was your father when the fire started?"

"I don't know. He said he'd be back in a couple weeks. But that was a long time ago." I was all too familiar with the scenario she was in. A hunter leaves his kids at home while he goes to kill a creature that may be just a little too dangerous for him. In the end the hunter dies on the job and his kid becomes an orphan.

"We should head back then." Adora spoke standing up and looking around. "Your father might be coming back to the Lodge to find you." Lily nodded her head.

I stood up and offered her my hand. She accepted the offer standing up and not letting go. We fell into step behind Adora.

Adora and I reached the lodge quicker than I thought we would have. Everything had died down since then. The lodge was burned to the ground, dead hunters and monsters alike lined the valley edges it stood in. I drew my head down. The last thing I wanted was to see the Lodge like this. More often than not the lodge had served as our only connection to home, however remote it was.

Now it was burned to the ground in front of our eyes. Lily let go of my hand and went looking by the charred remains. "Be careful!" I warned, grabbing her shoulder to hold her back. "It could still burn you."

She looked at the ground sadly, "What if my dad's in there?" Her voice held a sort of sadness, yet forlorn acceptance that no child should have. She was trying to be brave, she knew that it was more likely her father had been killed, by the hordes or fire it didn't matter. If that was the case I could tell Lily wanted to be strong...for her father.

I killed me to see that in a child. No kid should look that sad and that detached from the world at the same time.

Unfortunately we had realized too late that we were being watched. Someone cocked a gun loudly behind us. My immediate reaction was to step in front of Lily. When I faced the enemy I saw what I didn't want to see. The Winchesters…

Dammit how did they follow us here? The look in Sam's eye was unreadable. After our last meeting I knew he didn't want to hunt us but I also knew the Winchesters were inseparable and more than anything loyal to each other. No one who took on the Winchesters survived, they'd sought us out and that just as bad. I cursed our luck.

"Damn, you two live up to your reputation don't you?" Adora said the same sarcastic annoyance in her voice she always used.

"Good to know we're appreciated." Dean replied his eyes squinted and his mouth a sour line on his otherwise stoic face. Dean tightened his grip on the gun getting ready to shot.

"You know we're not the enemies." Adora tried bargaining.

"Seems the evidence is stacked against you." Dean gestured to Lily, hiding behind me. I turned around to see her utterly terrified, her eyes wide as she clung to my leg.

"What?!" Adora started. "You think we kidnapped her?" Both Winchester's shrugged. "Look buddy we're just hunters like you and your brother. We don't kill the innocent."

Dean almost chuckled. "You're monsters that's what you are. Rationalize all you want, it makes no difference."

I gritted my teeth. I didn't know what I was doing but I knew I had to do something. "You wouldn't want to kill your brother's lover would you. C'mon, Dean not even you are that cruel." That caught everyone's attention.

"HIS WHAT!?" Adora and Dean shouted in unison then noticing they dropped their guard turned to face each other once more ready for a fight. Sam looked surprised but he didn't say otherwise. My glare had warned him of that. Please just go with it! I tried to will the words into his head. Do you even know what you're doing? His stare said back. I shrugged.

"That's right...Sam and I-" I started, my fingers shaking with the lie. "We've been seeing each other for a long time...And we're in love." I breathed out the last part, saying it quietly partly to add effec partly because I couldn't believe what I was saying.

"SAM!" Dean shouted his gun still pointed at Adora.

Sam shuffled his feet uncomfortably. He lowered the pistol he was holding and said; "Dean, put the gun down."

The look on Dean's face was priceless. Oh if I could've captured it on film I'd have a field day! Slowly he turned to Sam, too stunned to speak.

"Put the gun down." Sam repeated his eyes pleading this time.

"You can't be serious! Of all the things in the world to have sex with you chose the thing we're hunting?"

The look in Sam's eyes was so good I thought it was rehearsed. He silently challenged his brother to make a move.

Adora's mind must have been in a haze, she grabbed her gun out of the duffel bag and held the Winchester's at gunpoint. "I don't believe it!"

"Adora!" I shouted a warning.

"You expect me to believe you chose him to fall in love with?! Danny that's bullshit!"

"It's true!" Sam countered.

What have I done…? I realized a little too late that everything had gotten out of hand very quickly.

"Look at them, Sam! They're monsters, they're what we kill!" Dean shouted raising his gun once more. I heard a muffled cry come out of Lily and I backed away.

No one wanted to make a move. The world was silent as Dean and Adora stared each other down, waiting for the other to make a move. I saw the hate coming off both of them, yet neither budged an inch. I knew Adora was weighing our options of getting out of here alive, and they were probably slim.

I couldn't take the tension. It was only a matter of time before one of them fired. The one thing I hate most is people dying for no reason. That's what she knew would happen if she didn't do something quickly.

I pried Lily off my pants and ran toward Adora, reaching out to stop her gun from firing. Everything passed by in a blur. Time slowed.

"DON'T SHOOT!"

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BANG!