Hey guys! So this chapter will be explaining what happened when John came and took Thyme to the school, and shows a little bit of Thyme's relationship with Castiel, so it's quite a bit longer than the others. I hope you guys like it.

I don't own Supernatural, or any games, movies and songs in this chapter. I only own Thyme and the plot.

~Seven Years Ago…~

Why is the last class of the day always sooo boring? It's stupid! They should make it fun, but instead they make us sit through fifty minutes of maths. Teachers really don't understand that we can't concentrate in the afternoons. ESPECIALLY ON A FRIDAY! I mean, come one, we're ten years old! It's ridiculous!

I wait excitedly for the bell to ring so I can get home, I have to finish my game of Monopoly with Cas. He's about to go bankrupt, and he doesn't even know it. He tells me sometimes that I'm too smart for my own good. I smile at the memory of me beating Cas in a round of Chess when I was eight, I was rolling on the ground with laughter. That was one of my favorite memories.

I look at the digital watch Cas got me for my birthday last year and see that there is only five minutes left of class. I sigh from relief, I really thought I wasn't going to make it through the lesson. It felt like an eternity.

Then the teacher tells us to pack our things away and wait for the bell quietly. Psh. Like that's gonna happen. The idiotic boys in my class start yelling at each other and throwing stuff across the room. I feel slightly tempted to hide under my desk. I can't believe these kids are the same age as me.

Much to my relief the bell sirens and I quickly walk over to the hook where my bag is. I throw it over my shoulder and walk out of the hot and smelly classroom. I walk to the entrance of the school where I enjoy the smell of fresh air. Cas is busy with work today so I have to walk home.

I don't mind, I like walking and running, it makes me feel happy, like it's my own escape from the reality of me only having my brother for family. Our parents died when I was five, leaving Cas to take care of me.

I turn down to an empty street humming the song Castiel had shown me last night. I think it was called 'The House of The Rising Sun' by The Animals. Cas told me that I might like the song when he first heard it. He was right, now it won't get out of my head.

I keep walking, wishing I had an MP3 player or something so I can listen to it. I straighten the straps on my bag as I walk through the humid air. I freeze in my tracks when I see a strange man approaching me. He smiles at me and I'm about to run.

"Thyme?" he says, I stop myself from running and look at the strange man. "I knew I recognized you." He kneels down so he can look at me face-to-face, but his smile fades slightly when he sees the fear in my face. "Don't worry sweetie," he says. "I'm not going to hurt you."

I take a step back from him, there's definitely something wrong with this guy. He doesn't seem… human. I don't feel safe with him at all, I really want to run but something is stopping me, and I start to panic.

"I knew your Mummy and Daddy, I met you when you were five," he says lightly and kindly. I grip the straps on my bag like they're my life support at this very moment. I really want someone to save me right now, I want Cas.

I start to take quick shaky breaths, wishing I was at home and in my brother's arms, rather than here with this… creature. Behind the smiling man I see a polished, black, cool looking car park on the other side of the road.

At that point in time, I didn't know that, that car is in fact the 1967 Chevy Impala that would save me.

"Who-who are you…?" I ask the man, my voice shaking, this man is terrifying me. He grins at me, with a scary look in his eyes.

"I'm Azazel," he says. "And I killed your parents, now I'm going to kill you!" His hand wraps around my throat and he squeezes so I can't breathe. My small hands grip his large one, trying to pull his fingers away from my neck.

"Not today!" someone says behind the man-Azazel. I look behind him to see a tall man with dark hair grabbing Azazel by the back of his shirt, tearing him from me. My hands go to my neck and I cough, while I catch my breath.

Then I just stand and watch the man yelling at the demon about his wife. "You killed her!" he yells. "You're making my kids grow up without a mother! You son of a—" Suddenly Azazel's eyes turn yellow and I gasp.

"He's a demon!" I yell pointing at Azazel, cutting the man off. The man freezes just as he's about to shoot Azazel. Azazel spins around and takes out his knife, and starts to try and stab the man.

The man fights back, and without even thinking about it, I jump onto Azazel's back, making him spin around, trying to get me off his back. "Get off!" he yells reaching behind him and dragging his nails down my legs, I yell out in pain.

"Jump off!" The man yells, I do as he says because he's the one I trust right now, and then he shoots Azazel, it looks like electricity shoots through his body and I only watch him fall to the ground, dead.

The man puts his gun in his belt. "Are you okay?" he asks me. I nod looking down to see my hands are shaking. I just want to go home now. He walks over and kneels down in front of me. "It's okay now, don't worry," he says comfortingly. "What's your name?"

I look up at him. "Thy-Thyme Phillips," I say quietly. He nods and lightly touches my arm.

"Okay Thyme, I'm John, is there somewhere I can take you?" he asks. I hesitantly nod. "Don't worry, I'm the good guy, this is what I do. Now, where can I take you?"

"Home."

John has to convince me in to his car and I give him my address. "So, how did you know that Azazel was a demon?" I look over at John who is looking at me, while trying to look at the road too.

"His eyes went yellow, and the demon who killed my mum and dad had yellow eyes," I say. He nods. "So, I guess he was telling the truth."

"Wait, Azazel killed your parents? Both of them?" I silently nod. "Who are you living with?"

"My brother," I say.

"I have to say," John says. "You were really brave to jump on the demon like that, I was impressed. How old are you?"

"Ten."

He looks at me in shock surprise. "You're ten years old? And you helped kill a demon?"

"I had to," I say. "It could have killed you, or others could have also died if it escaped." John smiles slightly.

"You would make a great hunter," he says, I look at him, confused.

"What's a hunter?"

John spends the rest of the car drive explaining what a hunter does, not even thinking once that I am an innocent ten year old kid, who has just been told that all my nightmares are real. But, for some reason, it doesn't surprise me, I guess I have always known that monsters are real, ever since Azazel killed my mum and dad.

He pulls up in front of my home and I run inside. "CAS!" I call out as I run into the lounge. I hear something crash to the floor in the kitchen and Cas walks out of it.

"Thyme?" he says with a worried look. "Oh thank goodness you're okay!" He pulls me into a tight hug. "I was about to go total angel and search for you."

"Sorry Cas," I say.

John knocks on the front door and I let go of Cas and run to the door, opening it for him. "Cas! This is John! He saved me from Azazel!" I say, a bit too happily. John gives Cas a small awkward smile while Cas tenses up when I mention Azazel.

"Hi," John says. "I'm John Winchester."

Cas shakes John's hand. "Castiel Novak."

"Novak? Thyme said her surname was Phillips," John says.

"She insisted on using our Mother's maiden name. She's very confusing sometimes," Cas says.

I tug on Cas' jacket and both men look down at me. "Don't talk about me like I'm not here." They both chuckle at my comment.

"So you really saved Thyme?" Cas asks. "From Azazel? The demon?"

John nods. "I'm a hunter, and I've been looking for Azazel ever since I started hunting, and without Thyme's help, I don't think I could have killed it. She has a lot of potential to be a hunter."

"Thyme," Cas says. "How about you go and play in your room?"

I roll my eyes. "I don't play, I read books!" I walk into the hall, but instead of going to my room, I hide behind the corner and listen to John and Cas talk.

"Castiel," John says. "She recognized Azazel as a demon straight away, she even helped kill him, she jumped on his back and distracted him while I regained my balance and got my gun ready."

"That doesn't mean anything," Cas says.

"I'm just saying, that with proper training, she could become an incredible hunter, and I'm only making assumptions, but, you look like you've been in the hunting life."

"Not in the way you'd expect Mr Winchester."

"Please, call me John, and I'm asking you, could I take Thyme to a school to train her to protect herself, and if she wants, become a hunter?"

"No," Cas says. "Absolutely not. We've been affected by demons and monsters enough. She doesn't need to be able to protect herself. She has me."

"But not forever," John says. "She does need to protect herself when she gets older. This will give her an opportunity to expand on her hunting skills." I run out from behind the corner. This is exactly what I want! I want to learn to hunt. "She told me herself, she wants to save people."

"Let me go, Cas!" I say. "I want to go to this school! I want to learn how to hunt!"

"No, Thyme!" Cas says. "I can't let you go! This is what I'm protecting you from."

"No Cas," I say. "You're protecting me from demons. I want to learn how to protect myself and how to hunt. Please!" Cas shakes his head.

"Look, I don't want to intrude," John says. "But here's my number if you change your mind." Cas takes it and John kneels down to look at me. "Now, you kiddo," he says. "Stay brave and you'll be fine. And do what your brother says, yeah?" I smile at him and nod, he nods back. "Good, thank you."

"Thank you John! You saved my life!" I say and wrap my small arms around his stomach. "Thank you for ending him before anyone else got hurt."

I didn't see it but, Cas and John shared a look when I said that. I think that, that was when Cas realized that hunting is in my blood.

I let go of John and he says goodbye, getting a thank you from Cas and he leaves. Mentioning something about him staying at a motel until eleven tonight. This'll give me a bit of time to get Cas to let me go since it's only four in the afternoon.

Cas checks me for wounds, and heals the scratches on my legs, mumbling something about him being punished if the other angels find out that I was injured

Anyway, all the way up until dinner I have been begging him and pulling on his jacket to annoy him. I even grabbed hold of his ankle and he dragged me around for five minutes.

"Stop it, Thyme!" he says, annoyed at me. "I get it! You want to go! But I don't think the others approve of doing this."

"Screw the other angels!" I say, getting upset that Cas isn't letting me go. Cas quickly covers my mouth before I can say anything else bad about them.

"Don't say those things. You might infuriate the others and there will be no way that you'll get to go," Cas says removing his hand. "Okay?" I silently nod and he starts to dish up dinner and I sit down at the table.

Alright. So if giving him hell isn't going to work, I'll just not talk to him at all.

He places the food in front of me, spaghetti. Yum! I nod as a thanks and pick up my fork. "Well, you're strangely quiet now," he says. "Not even a 'Thank you Castiel for my food'? I think I need to get you to work on your manners."

I really want to say 'And I think you need to let me go to the hunting school' but I don't.

The entire meal is Cas just having a one-sided conversation with himself. When I finish neither of us move, we just stare at each other. "Okay enough!" Cas says. "I get it okay? You're not speaking to me because you want to go with John." He drops his head into his hands and starts tugging at his hair. "This is so frustrating!"

I stand up and take my plate over to the sink and I begin to walk out of the kitchen when I hear a flutter of wings. "Don't go anywhere Thyme," the angel says and I spin around to see Samandriel standing by the sink.

"Samandriel!" I say happily and hug him, I hear Cas sigh.

"Yeah, she speaks to you but not to me," he says raising his head. "That's the first time she's spoken since I dished dinner up." Samandriel looks down at me and shakes his head, then looks back up to Cas.

"You have to let her go with John Winchester," Samandriel says and my smile broadens. He walks over to Cas and whispers something into his ear and Cas nods. "She can leave with John, tonight." Then Samandriel ruffles my hair and then disappears.

"I get to go!" I say happily and start jumping around. "Yay!" Cas stands up and walks to the phone.

"Go pack your things, I'll call John, and then we'll finish that game of Monopoly," Cas says picking up the phone and dialing John's number. I run up the stairs and into my room where all my things are thrown around the room. I stand there staring at it, unsure of where to start when Cas walks in, taking his suit jacket off and rolling up his white button up shirt sleeves.

"Okay, let's get your bag, we'll probably need two," he says. "You have lots of books you'll probably want to take." I nod and he goes over to my cupboard taking out my small suitcase and the bag I use for sleepovers. "The suitcase will have your clothes and this bag can have your books and other things you want to take."

"When's John getting here?" I ask.

"Ten thirty, so let's start packing," Cas says, he sounds kind of sad. I wonder what's wrong.

We start packing my clothes and books and after an hour of it we have finally finished. "That was exhausting!" I say and Cas nods, when he notices my teddy still sitting on my bed.

"Why haven't you packed Ted?" he asks me.

I shrug and look at where my teddy is sitting. "I thought that maybe he could keep you company since I'm not going to be here."

"Yeah, I guess you're right, come on, let's get some ice cream and we'll finish our round of Monopoly, okay?" Cas says.

"Yeah!" I yell excitedly and run out of my room with Cas smiling behind me. We get some chocolate ice cream in a bowl each and we sit on the lounge room floor playing our game, with The House of The Rising Sun playing. When I roll the dice I begin to sing along.

'There is a house in New Orleans.
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God, I know I'm one.'

I land on Chance and get a 'get out of jail free' card, I smile and show Cas. "You have two of those now!" he says. "I don't see how that is fair."

I laugh and he rolls, as I continue to sing.

'My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new blue jeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Orleans.'

"Noo!" Cas calls out falling backwards onto his back, covering his face. "I'm in jail!" I start to laugh, he sits up and looks at me pleadingly. "I will pay you for one of those jail cards."

I shake my head and we continue to play. Twenty minutes later Cas gives up. "Fine! You win! I can't beat you! Congratulations!" He shakes my hand and I dance in celebration.

After Cas manages to calm me down and we watch a movie, but I can't concentrate on it, I keep looking at the clock, waiting for John to come at ten thirty. It's ten now, so I only have to wait another half an hour.

"Cas?" I say to my brother who is slowly falling asleep, his eyelids are half covering his blue eyes I've always wanted. He looks at me. "Are you okay with me leaving?"

He sits forward and pulls me onto his lap. "No," he says. "But I know you wish for this and I can't keep you here out of my own selfishness." He kisses my cheek. "You're my little sister and I'm always going to want to protect you."

"What are you going to do when I leave?"

"I'm still going to do my job, keep the demons away," he says giving me a smile that I know is fake.

"You won't leave will you?" I ask.

"I would never leave you," he says hugging me. "Never, ever, ever. I promise."

John arrives at ten thirty exactly and Cas brings my bags down for me. "Are you sure you're okay with this? Coming with me I mean." John asks me. I nod.

"I don't like my school here anyways. The school that you're talking about sounds a lot more like me," I say and John nods. Cas walks into the hall placing my bags down next to me and John takes them out to the car for me.

"Now," Cas says picking me up in his arms. "You be good for John, and work hard. I'll come and see you whenever I can, I promise." I nod and wrap my arms around his neck and bury my face in his shoulder.

"I love you Cas," I say, my voice muffled. "You better come and see me, or I'll say some mean prayers to you." He chuckles at my threat and he carries me out to the Impala.

"You can pray to me whenever okay? Just so I know you're okay," Cas says and puts me onto the ground. I nod. I've only just realized that I'm going away without Cas. That's going to be really hard because whenever I go to a sleepover he has to pick me up in the middle of the night because I'm always afraid there's a demon coming for me.

"This is okay isn't it?" John asks Cas, who nods.

"Yeah, she really wants this," he says and sighs. "And I see the potential of her being an incredible hunter as well." I smile at Cas for saying that. He looks down and half smiles at me.

"Thyme," Cas says and kneels down in front of me. "I got you this." he hands me an MP3 player with earphones. "It has The House of the Rising Sun on it."

I take it excitedly. "Thank you Cas!" I say happily and put in the pocket of my jeans.

"I'll see you soon, munchkin," Cas says and kisses me on the forehead. I giggle at his nickname for me. The first time we watched The Wizard of Oz I said I wanted to be a munchkin, and Cas said that I was his munchkin.

"Bye Cas," I say and I get into the front seat of the Impala. John shakes Cas' hand and he gets into the drivers' seat.

"Alright kiddo," John says. "Off to the Lake we go."

I fall asleep in the car, my head leaning on the window, for some reason the shaking window helped me go to sleep. John wakes me up and I look at my watch to see it says three a.m. We drove for five hours to get to the school, and I don't remember half the trip.

"I just want to mention something," John says before we get out of the car. "The school has really only just started up, so there's only going to be five of you right now. Two of them are my sons. The other two are victims of monster attacks."

I nod. "So, it's a small school right now, but it will still teach me how to be a hunter?"

"Of course," he says. "You have some very smart retired hunters here to teach you. You're going to be in good hands, don't you worry about that."

"Alright," I say and we get out. John grabs my bags and we walk into the large building that sits next to a large lake, it's really pretty with the moonlight reflecting off the water.

"In here Thyme," John says standing by the entrance to the building. "I want you to meet my kids." I nod and run over to him. We go inside where I see two boys, one sitting cross legged on the floor looking around curiously, especially at me and the other leans on a table with his arms crossed looking bored.

The one sitting on the floor has brown hair and light brown eyes, his arms and legs look too long for his body, and he smiles nicely at me. "This is Sam," John says pointing to the boy on the floor, he waves at me and I wave back, I like his pyjamas, they're Batman pyjamas. "He's my youngest."

I look over at the other boy, he has sandy-brown hair and nice green eyes, his hair is cut reasonably short and he looks like a tough guy. He looks at me, showing no emotion, but I still smile at him. "And this is Dean, my eldest," John says. "Don't worry about him though, he's not very welcoming at the start when new people arrive. But he'll warm up to you."

I nod and wave at him but he doesn't respond. He really doesn't look like a happy kid. "Guys," John says. "This is Thyme, and she's here to become a hunter, so be nice. I mean it Dean."

Dean looks at John and raises his arms. "I didn't say anything!"

"Well, when you do, make sure it's nothing but nice words," John says sternly. "Come on, Thyme, I'll take you to your room and Sammy will get you tomorrow and show you around."

I nod. This is going to be a completely different experience for me. At that time, I didn't realize how going to school here wouldn't be all sunshine and rainbows.

Okay, so I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I just want to give a HUGE thank you to the people who have faved and followed! I really appreciate it! And a big thanks to my best friend who suggested I write a full backstory! I would also love some suggestions from you guys about what I should write next, I'm thinking about doing a chapter in Cas' POV and see what he's up to, let me know what you guys think. Thank you!