Crystal awakens with a start. Her head feels like she had been hit by a train and her body feels like she has just recovered from being sick. Rolling over, she pulls the blankets over her head and lets out a startled gasp when she realizes she was not alone in the bed.
"Whoa, whoa! It's okay! I'm a friend, not a foe!" It was a female with long black hair. Her eyes were opened wide with innocence. This was when Crystal realizes that she has dark green eyes. Taking several deep breaths, Crystal began to calm down.
"My name is LJ… Sam called me last night and explained… well everything…." She sent a shy smile in Crystal's direction.
"Um.. well… this is awkward.." Crystal replied, looking away from LJ.
"I uh thought that after everything… well I know that having your brothers sleep in here would be a problem… plus I sort of needed to get away from my sister and her kid for a while… at least one night. Don't get me wrong, I love the kid. But I mean I just want my-" LJ stopped abruptly while covering her mouth. Crystal opened her mouth to speak but a knock interrupted her train of thought. Sam poked his head inside the dimly lit room.
"Everything going all right?" He asked. Crystal noticed that he had bags under his eyes. She knew he was worried about her.
"Yeah, everything is just fine." Crystal sent a dazzling smile in his direction.
"Yeah Sam. All is well. I'm just getting to know your twin." LJ climbed out of the bed and Crystal realized she was wearing extremely short plaid shorts. Her shirt was loose but it clung to every curve of her body. She never would be able to walk around like that in front of a guy.
"Wait, we're twins?" Crystal asked incredibly. LJ turned a bright crimson red.
"Did I say something I wasn't supposed to?" She looked at Sam who had trouble keeping his eyes locked on the girl's own. Crystal smiled.
"Hmm, interesting. So uhh… are you two dating?" Crystal asked, realizing a second too late that they don't realize that that like one another. Both stammered and settled on shaking their heads.
"We are just good friends…." LJ trailed off. Crystal smiled and nodded. She looked toward her brother who avoided both pairs of eyes.
"I um… should go back to bed then…" He began to pull back when Crystal stopped him.
"I think I would feel safer with my big-you are still older right?" Sam nodded. "Well, I'd feel safer with you in here." She looked at LJ and held up her hands.
"No offence, I just don't know you as well." LJ smiled understandingly. Another knock on the door and another girl with layered black hair stuck her head into the room.
"Hey, what's going on in here?" She asked with a smile. Without asking, she walked right in holding the hands of a child just beginning to walk. Sam beamed at the child as the girl helped him to walk over to him. He picked up the kid and set him on his knee.
"Oh Crystal, this is my younger sister, Blair, and her son, Johnny." Crystal waved hello, suddenly feeling shy. She watched as Blair and LJ quietly left the room. Sam didn't notice because he was too busy playing with the little boy in his lap.
"So you like her." Sam looked up with a lost expression on his face reminding Crystal of a confused puppy. She rolled her eyes.
"You like LJ. LJ likes you. What's stopping you guys?" Sam snorted at Crystal and went back to playing with Johnny.
"Well, the fact that all of our friends end up dying for one. And she is a Hunter, I am a Hunter… Our lives will not exactly…." He made a motion with his hands. Crystal understood where he was coming from. Her relationships have not worked out too well….
"But if you're both Hunters…" LJ walked back into the room.
"Sam! He needs to be in bed!" Sam looked up at the girl with a tender grin. LJ bent over and picked up the child and put him on her waist. She whispered something that Crystal didn't hear before walking out of the room.
"Crystal… why did you leave? You never told-" Dean walked into the room without knocking.
"LJ told me you needed to see me?" Crystal could see why Sam liked her; she was a very intriguing person and was setting something up.
"Well I'm guessing she wants us to be able to talk to our sister without any interruptions." Sam suggested leaning forward on his knees. Dean took a seat at the edge of the bed and looked toward Crystal expectantly. With a sigh, Crystal started her story.
"I had just turned 19 and I had not seen John-well dad I guess-in almost a year. I learned of a case having to do with vampires so I talked to Uncle Bobby about it. He was wrapped up in his fake FBI business and told me there was no way I could go alone. He and I got into an argument and I ran into, well this room. After I was sure that he was asleep, I snuck out. I know he said he would put others on this case, but I was sure that I could handle it myself. When I got close to the nest, I noticed a big black 2-door 1986 GMC Sierra Grande. I knew that truck like I knew my name-it was John's. I saw him checking his engine when a female approached him from behind. He turned and she hit him over the head knocking him out cold. I waited to see if his children would be there to save him, but I guess you guys had been somewhere else. I had some dead man's blood in arrows and shot them at the swarm of vamps coming after him. I got him in his truck after decapitating some of the vamps and floored the truck to get out of there. I noticed the hotel key in his cup holder so I went there. He awoke when I was mending his wounds and of course reprimanded me for my stupidity." Dean snorted at this to which Crystal glared.
"Sorry, continue." Crystal playfully punched his arm before going on.
"I already had adrenaline pumping through my blood and the fight with Uncle Bobby just came back to me… I yelled at him and told him that he would be dead if it wasn't for me and he told me to leave… so I did… I didn't go back to Uncle Bobby's and I didn't go back to him. I was going to prove to the world that I was a good Hunter and that I can take care of myself. Typical girl. Well, after about a year I came across this group of Hunters and they were looking for me. I changed my name to CC and well… yeah. I went on this one Hunt when I heard about the 'Apocalypse' and ended up captured by demons which is where I have been since. A few weeks before we met on the side of the road was when I guess a demon forgot to lock me up right and I got free. I found my way out and I just figured things out as I went along." She shrugged as she finished up and looked both boys in the eyes. Suddenly, LJ came running into the room.
"We need to go!" She grabbed Crystal by the hand only to be thrown across the room.
"My my my. You Winchesters never learn." It was that angel that Cas had called Sheiramoth along with the other, Raitaro. Dean and Sam immediately jumped to their feet on to be pressed against the wall with an invisible force.
"You really think that you would still be alive if the demons had you? Oh no." The she angel walked up to Crystal so close that their noses were only a few inches away from touching. She snapped her fingers and LJ dropped to the floor coughing up blood.
"Well first off, no outsider friends, Sam!" With a twist of her wrist, Sheiramoth made LJ begin to convulse.
"NO!" Sam screamed. Dean was immediately reminded of Zachariah.
"You see young Winchester, you weren't supposed to be freed. But Castiel, the imbecile that he is, set you free on earth and filled your head with fake memories." Crystal's head was spinning. She was trying to comprehend everything when the male angel stepped forward and began to speak.
"Now, you can end their suffering if you just come back with us. We will erase their memories and they won't remember a thing."
"Raitaro." Castiel appeared in the room. He pointed at LJ and she immediately looked up and thanked him. She was still in pain, but it was tolerable.
"This is none of your concern, Castiel." Sheiramoth said in a powerful voice.
"You see, it is because these are my friends."
"Friends? These roaches?" Raitaro scoffed. Cas turned around and quickly stabbed him in the throat with an angel blade making Sheiramoth scream. The angels began to brawl as LJ grabbed Crystal and pulled her out the door with Sam and Dean on their tails. Bobby was already outside with Blair and Johnny in his car waiting for the rest to join him.
"I was just coming in to get you guys! What's going on!?" Bobby commanded. Dean pushed LJ into Bobby's car.
"Drive. We will be in touch, but drive and do not look back." Dean, Sam, and Crystal raced to the Impala as a bright light shone from inside the house. Pushing the accelerator to the ground, Dean burnt rubber trying to get away from the house before things could get worse.
"Where are we going!?" Screamed Crystal in the back seat. Sam looked back at his frightened little sister.
"Anywhere as long as you're safe."
The end. I hope you like where I ended it. I love reviews. I promise there will be more of Crystal in my next story. Remember, Safe, Danger, Worry, and now Potential are all pretty much based off of one another ;) Who knows who we will meet next! Stay tuned!