This is where I take over from the amazing Mssammydean, hopefully you guys like it. I know I have been saying I've been going to get this up for weeks, but I was strung up for time, but after meeting the incredible Jared, Jensen and Misha last weekend *squee* I had a burst of inspiration.
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Gracie woke up to find Dean licking at her nose,
"Quit it Dean, I'm awake, I'm awake"
Woof! Rise and shine sleepy head
She wrapped her hands around his middle and moved him onto her lap carefully, he still whined
OW!
"I'm sorry babe, still tender huh?" he looked up at her and nodded, she lifted him up and cradled him to her chest, he nuzzled his nose into her hair.
Damn, she smells good.
Gracie laughed,
"Your fuzzy little ears are tickling me, and your nose is cold" she rubbed her hand over his soft fur, "The vet is going to fix your leg up today, and Sammy and Amanda are looking into the old lady, we'll have you back to normal in not time"
About damn time.
The door opened and the vet strolled through,
"Hi guys, how's the patient this morning?"
I got hit by a car, how the hell do you think I'm doing?
"I just have to finish my rounds and then little Deanie here will be first on my operating table"
Dean growled,
Little Deanie?? I don't think so.
Gracie ran her hand gently down his back and whispered in his ear,
"It's okay baby, we both know your not little"
Damn straight.
"I'll be back in about half an hour, just make sure the little guy stays as still as possible"
Enough with the little already.
Cara left the room to continue on her rounds, no sooner had she left then Sam and Amanda walked in they both looked exhausted,
"Morning guys" said Sam as he let out a huge yawn, "Grace, you look better rested than us, how's Dean going?"
"He's okay, the vet was just in, she said he would be the first operation today, which is good, I don't like seeing him in pain"
"Well that's good" Amanda hopped up to sit on the table that Dean had slept on, "We brought you some coffee, thought you might need it"
"You're a mind reader, and a lifesaver" she grabbed the cup and lifted the lid, the enticing smell of fresh coffee wafted up to greet her nose, she took a sip,
"Ah, that's good"
Dean shifted in her lap and tried to stick his nose in the cup,
"No!" Gracie scolded, "Coffee is NOT for puppies"
Whine, I NEED coffee!
"Haha, I told you you were addicted" Sam said with a smug look on his face,
Growl. Shut it Sammy.
"Sorry dude"
"So, did you guys have any luck on the old lady?"
Amanda looked down into her coffee while Sam shifted on his feet,
"Uh, we actually found squat, we were up all night searching, we couldn't find anything, but as soon as you head into surgery Dean we are going to keep looking, don't worry we'll find her"
You better.
They all sat there in silence, the only noise coming from the waiting room down the hall, the sounds of barking and meowing getting louder and louder.
Before long Cara returned,
"I'm back, wow, more visitors Dean? you are one loved puppy"
It's because I'm awesome.
"Well, it's time to go fix that leg of yours, you ready? Oh, just one more thing, did you guys want him de-sexed while we're at it?" she lent over and plucked Dean off Gracie's lap,
GGGRRRRRRRRR HELL NO!
"Ah, no, I don't think we could do that to him" Gracie heard Sam stifle a giggle,
"Okay then. You guys are welcome to wait in the waiting room of you like, there's coffee and tea in there, just help yourselves."
"Wait, can I just say goodbye?" Gracie leaned down and kissed Dean on the top of the head, "See you soon babe, love you." tears welled in her eyes,
"He's really important to you guys huh? Don't worry he'll be fine" with that Cara walked out of the room with Dean in her arms.
Amanda put her hand on Grace's shoulder,
"You staying here sweetie?"
"Of course, I want to be here when he wakes up, and god help anyone who gets in my way" there was such a fierce look on her face that Sam doubted that anyone would try and stop her,
"Sure, well we might head out and see if we can find anything on our mystery witch"
All three headed down the hall to the waiting room, it was about half full of people with all manner of pets, but it was one that caught Gracie's eye, she pulled Sam over to the side of the room,
"Sam, that's her"
"What?"
"That's the old lady Dean and I saw yesterday, the one with the little dog with the bow"
"The one that looks like it ran into a door?"
"Yeah, her and Dean had an 'altercation' about her dog"
"You sure?"
"Of course I'm sure, that's her" Gracie gave the old woman a death stare and moved towards her, Sam grabbed her arm,
"Wait, we're not sure if she's the witch yet or not, and if she is you don't need to go over there and provoke her"
"But look what she did to Dean, she turned him into a damn puppy" she pulled on his arm trying to break his grip, but he was too strong,
"Dammit Sam, let me go"
"As long as you promise not to go over there and screw things up" she glanced up at him with a look that would scare the devil, "I mean it Gracie, if it is her, we do not need you tipping her off"
"Gracie"
"Fine, I won't go over there and kill her, happy now?"
"Hardly"
A tall dark haired man walked out from the door beside them, he looked far too young to be a vet,
"Mr. Sniffles?"
The old lady rocked herself out of the chair, Mr. Sniffles walking obediently by her side, the vet put his arm out and directed her into the room, as she passed them she looked at Gracie and smirked,
"Oh, that's it"
"Gracie!" Amanda grabbed her free arm while Sam tightened his grip, "Leave it Grace, go and sit down, Sam and I will wait until she comes back out and follow her"
"Amanda's right, you need to be here for Dean, we can handle this" Gracie took a deep breath to calm herself,
"I know, I know, it just makes me so mad thinking of him in there, getting operated on, by a vet for christ's sake!" she threw her arms in the air, making the others let go,
"Come on lets go sit down" Amanda led them over to the chairs, sitting in a position so they had a clear view of the examination room that the old lady was in and of the entrance,
"We'll tail her as soon as she leaves, find out everything we can, actually I have an idea" Sam moved over to the receptionist's desk, there was no one behind it, after a few seconds typing on the computer he returned,
"Okay, so I have her name and address, this place should really review their security" he pulled the keys out of his pocket, "Since we know she won't be home for a while Amanda and I should go over to her place and check it out, she only lives a block from here"
"You'll be okay?" Amanda asked,
"I'll be fine, just make sure you get that scheming bitch" she laughed,
"Will do" Sam touched Grace on the shoulder,
"We'll be back later"
Grace crossed her arms and settled in for the long haul, she was never good at being patient. She leaned over and plucked a magazine off the coffee table, it was from two years ago, but at least it kept her mind from thinking about what she wanted to do to that old lady. After losing herself in an article about Brad Pitt she was surprised to look up and see that the waiting room had cleared, as she stretched her arms out in front of her the old woman and the vet came out of the examination room,
"Mr. Sniffles is fit as a fiddle Ms. Roberts, would you like to make an appointment for his next check up?"
"Yes please" they moved over to the desk, the young vet spoke to the receptionist,
"Can you make an appointment for Mr. Sniffles here in 3 months time?"
"Sure thing doctor" she typed something into the computer and wrote on a card, "Here you go Ms. Roberts we'll see you again in three months"
"Thank you. Come along Mr. Sniffles" she shuffled towards the door, when she finally reached it she pushed at the handle, as she waited for the dog to go through first she looked at Gracie, and winked. It took every ounce of self control she had not to jump up and drive a knife into her chest. Luckily at that moment Cara came back out,
"Ms. Alexander? Dean is out of surgery now if you would like to see him?"
Grace couldn't get out of the seat fast enough,
"Of course I want to see him, is he okay?"
"He's fine, everything went perfectly, he's one tough little cookie"
The vet led her into another room, the first thing she seen was Dean lying unconscious on a small table, tubes coming out of hhis mouth and a drip coming out of his front leg, they had also shaved his back leg and half of his stomach,
"Oh Dean honey" she stroked his head, he looked so vulnerable,
"You're welcome to stay with him until he comes around"
"Thank you"
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"Sam, do you think this is the witch we are after?" Amanda looked over at Sam,
"Well Dean did piss her off"
"Yeah, but Dean pisses a lot of people off, what makes you think it could be her?" Sam laughed,
"Good point, it might not be her, but it doesn't hurt to have a look" he pulled the Impala over outside a neat little weatherboard house, "This is it"
"Doesn't look like an evil witches house" Sam looked over at Amanda,
"They never do"
They got out of the car and headed towards the house, going through the white picket gate they were surrounded by a immaculate garden,
"I think we can safely assume that this is our witch"
"Why do you say that?" Sam pointed at the garden,
"Well that's Belladonna, and that one" he pointed again "is Mandrake, and that one, is Wolfsbane. Typical victory garden"
"Right, so what's the plan then?"
"Break in, get a look around, she might have an alter, or a hex bag, something that started the spell on Dean, there are about a thousand forms of witchcraft, and each one is different"
"SO we don't know what we have to look for?"
"Pretty much"
"Great" Sam pulled his lockpick out and proceeded to tamper with the deadbolt, it took all of a second to unlock the door,
"You're good at that" Amanda was impressed,
"I've had a bit of practice"
They walked in and closed the door behind them, it was a typical old ladies house, doilies on every surface and a weird musty smell.
"You look upstairs, I'll check out down here" Amanda headed up the staircase, it creaked eerily with her every step. Sam called up the stairs,
"Just look for anything out of the ordinary"
Sam made his way into the kitchen, it was spotless, and nothing looked out of place, but something on the windowsill caught Sam's eye. He moved over towards the sink and picked up the mortar and pestle from the sill,
"huh" he lifted it up towards his nose, as he sniffed Amanda walked back into the room,
"Do you always go around smelling old ladies cooking utensils?"
"I do if the smell like this" he held the stone bowl out to Amanda, she cupped it in her hands and brought it to her face,
"What is that?"
"Not something you'd find in your normal mortar and pestle that's for sure, it's Meadowsweet, it was used in pagan worship, but also as a base ingredient for some heavy duty witchcraft"
"It's going to take me forever to learn all this stuff" she sat the bowl on the counter top,
"Hey" Sam moved around the counter and wrapped his arms around Amanda's shoulders, "You've only just started learning, and you've done an amazing job picking up what you have already, you've taken to hunting like a duck to water, it's a bit disconcerting really"
"I know, I just feel like I'm a hindrance right now, but I really want this, it's like I was born to do this, it fells like.......home I guess"
"Hey, your a great help, it was you that thought of the witch angle remember?" Sam gave her a big squeeze,
"Sam, can't breath"
"Oh right, sorry" Amanda punched him lightly on the shoulder,
"You can't help it sasquatch"
Sam dropped his arms and reached around to grab the gun out of the waistband of his pants,
"Sam?"
"Shhh" Sam hissed as he moved Amanda behind him, she listened and heard someone unlocking the door, Sam stood poised to shoot, arms stretched out in front, gun aimed at the door,
"Sam?"
"Quiet"
The door swung open, the old lady entering with the ever faithful Mr. Sniffles trailing behind her,
"I knew you'd be here" Sam unlatched the safety switch on his gun,
"Really? and how did you know that?"
"Because I know a lot more than people give me credit for"
"What did you do to my brother?"
"I taught him a lesson, there are some things he needed to learn" Sam looked confused,
"Like what?"
"He has a problem understanding humanity, I've helped him out with that"
"What? Dean understands humanity, he understands better than most"
"I don't think so" the old lady moved closer to Sam her hand raised towards him,
"Eius in obitu nostro praesentia muniamur!" Sam found himself flying across the room, crashing into a bookcase, the contents crashing down on top of him as he fell,
"Crux sacra sit mihi lux! Nunquam draco sit mihi dux!" she moved closer and Sam writhed in pain, she bent down over him, a knife in her hand,
"NO!" Amanda screamed reaching out towards the old lady across the room, there was no way she could get over ot them before the knife fell,
"SAM!" all of a sudden the knife shuddered in the old ladies hand before shooting across the room to be caught by Amanda, she just stared at it stunned,
"How?" the witch asked, Amanda looked over at the old lady with hate in her eyes,
"How dare you hurt my family" She grabbed the blade of the knife and tried to remember what Sam had taught her about knife throwing, she flicked her wrist and watched as the knife spun throught the air and landed in the womans chest, Sam looked up at her with trepidation in his eyes,
"Amanda?"
"Sam.......I..........what happened?"
"I don't know, but whatever it was, thank you, you saved my life" he pulled himself up out of the jumble of books and smashed photo frames, he moved over and clasped his girlfriend to his chest, he could feel her shaking in his arms, "It's okay"
"Will killing her help Dean?, or did I just screw things up?" Sam looked over to her, his forehead creased with worry,
"I don't know, we better call Grace and see what's happening"
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Grace Alexander sat by the table absently stroking the soft fur on Dean's head,
"Typical, we finally get our crap sorted out and this happens" she mumbled to herself, she felt the small puppy move under her palm, "Dean? you awake honey?"
Whine, I feel like crap
"Hey there sweetie, welcome back, how are you feeling?"
Like I got hit by a car, wait, I DID get hit by a car
"We think we found the witch, Sammy and Amanda have gone to check her out" dean tried to lift himself up onto his feet, he managed to get himself up onto his front paws before collapsing back onto the table,
"Hold up there, you just had your leg operated on, I don't think you are in any shape to go hunting witches, not to mention the fact that you are still a puppy, a very cute puppy I might add" she ruffled his ears,
Fine.
Suddenly a strong breeze blew through the room, Gracie looked up to see if anyone had opened the door, it was still closed tighly and there were no windows in the room,
"Weird, did you feel that?" she looked down at Dean, his whole body was trembling,
"DEAN!" as she stared in horror at the convulsing dog something strange started to happen, he seemed to be getting bigger, all of a sudden a bright light filled the room blinding Gracie,
"Dean" she called again feeling for the table, her arms outstretched, the light subsided and Grace opened her eyes cautiously, was she saw shocked her.
It was Dean, human Dean sitting on the small table, before she cold utter a word the table collapsed under his weight,
"Son of a bitch"
"Oh God! Dean!" she ran over and threw her arms around him, "Thank god you're back" Dean winced,
"Whoa, steady on babe, not feeling the greatest right now, operation remember? and lets not forget the whole weird metamorphosis thing"
"Oh right, sorry" she backed away, still in shock, before she could ask Dean if he was okay she felt her cell vibrate in her pocket, she got it out and checked the caller ID, it was Sam, they both spoke at the same time,
"Heya Sam, guess what?"
"Grace, how's Dean?" she laughed into the phone, "I take it that's good news?"
"Dean's fine and back to normal, well, as normal as Dean gets anyway"
"Hey!"
"Sorry babe. So what happened, did you gank the witch?"
"Actually, Amanda did" there was something in Sam's voice that told Grace that there was more to the story, but right now she didn't care, her man was back and that's all she needed to know.
"Okay, well we'll find a way to sneak out of here and meet you guys back at the motel then"
"Okay, see ya Grace"
She looked over at Dean and smiled, she had never been so happy to see him in her life, she saw a look of realisation appear across his face, he put his hand into the waistband of his trousers and pulled them away from his body, then peered down at his crotch,
"Dean, what are you doing?"
"Just making sure the vet didn't go through with that de-sexing"
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Well there you have it, my first chapter of Gracie Alexander, I hope you liked it :). Once again a BIG thank you to Mssammydean for letting me have my wicked way with her story, I hope you like what I've done!.
Okay! So now it's time to review people, I love to hear what people think and also would love to hear any ideas and suggestions you might have so lay them on me! xxx