"Older?" Dean stood up from the bed and looked at the man whom he had tied up. "What do you mean, you though she would be older?" Sam was standing behind the guy with a confused thinking face on. So far everything about this guy made him uneasy though once they got him in the chair all of Violet's fear went away. He brushed it off as the fact that he was there and that she didn't fell like she had anything to worry about.
The man looked at ropes around him in a groggy manner. Dean huffed and snapped his fingers in the man's face to grab his attention.
"Who are you?" He turned around, directing the question at both men.
"You don't get to ask the questions here, you're the one tied up, there for," he pointed between him and Sam, "we are the one's asking questions." Sam came around and took Dean's place next to Violet. She didn't know what to do, her father seemed to be very keen on doing the interrogation himself.
"Listen man, I thought she was an adult. If I had known that she was this age I would have came to talk to you first."
"That wasn't my question, I want to know why you thought she would be older in the first place." Violet could tell that he was getting agitated and she jumped up from her seat only to have Sam put a hand on her shoulder.
"Can you untie me?"
"Can you answer my question?" The man sighed but figured that he walked into the wrong motel room to be asking questions.
"Her powers," he sighed "they're a lot stronger then they would normally be for a young girl her age." His words shocked the other men in the room but not Violet. She didn't understand the shock but at the same time she wanted to ask what he ment and why he came here I'm the first place.
Sam and Dean shared a look and the glanced back to the guy. Violet moved away from her uncle to her father. She came up to his elbow and she looked up at him.
"Can we untie him?" She asked. Dean looked back to his brother who just shrugged and he in turn went to cut the ropes away. If his daughter didn't think the man was dangerous then there was a small chance of him doing anything and if he did then Dean wouldn't hesitate to pull out his gun.
"So whenever you feel a new power, you just stroll on out to check what it is?" Dean questioned incredulously. "What the hell would you have done if my daughter wasn't such a sweet little girl? For all you know she could have set your ass on fire." Dean leaned back against his chair.
Anthony sat across from him. Violet was perched on Dean's lap. She wanted to know what made him special, wanted to know what he might be able to teach her. Dean was more worried about reasoning and Sam was worried about the case.
"Well normally people come here knowing about rules and how to enter others territories without there being much trouble. If they don't come off as nice as we hope then we have safety guards set in place to assure our….safety." He paused before saying the last word and Dean scoffed.
"We didn't have any problems knocking you out."
"Like I said, I was expecting her to be older and alone. Hunters aren't normally this….close to witches." Dean couldn't really argue with that. Sam sighed grabbing the attention of his older brother.
"What?"
"We have a case."
"Yeah well, we also have a ten-year-old who doesn't know how to use her powers and now we have a someone who might be able to tell us more about said powers." Sam could understand his brother's logic but this guy wasn't going anywhere and this thing could attack and kill people any second.
"You two can go work on your case and I can take her back to the main house to learn more about what she can do." Anthony offered.
"Yeah. No." Dean's arm wrapped tighter around her as if the other man was trying to take her away. There was no way in hell that he was leaving his daughter with a man who he knew nothing about.
"She'll be safe with us and we understand that having a magical child, especially when you're a normal human, can be difficult. You said it yourself, she doesn't know how to control them. We can teach her."
"You can teach her after we finish this case and I can supervise." Dean said matter of fact.
"I want to go." Violet piped up. Dean gave her a look but the kid held her ground. "Daddy, everything will be fine. They're like me." Of course Dean didn't want to explain to her that sometimes people like her do things that can really hurt other people. She's way to young for that.
"Violet, you aren't going anywhere without me or your uncle." She pouted and hopped off his lap and moved to the bed next to Sam. She didn't understand what the big deal is, she can take care of herself. She crossed her arms over her chest and huffed.
"I can take care of myself." She voiced her thoughts. Sam hid his laugh behind his hand and Dean just sighed. Sam threw an arm around her shoulder and she shrugged away from him.
"You know Dean, why don't you let her go?" The look Dean gave his brother made it look like he was about to kill him. Anthony leaned back a little to get away from the tension the father was giving off. "Don't look at me like that, she's just going to sit here by herself while we're out hunting the damn thing. Are you going to sit here and supervise everything she does while we're out?" Dean's face didn't change as he thought over his brother's words.
"So you're okay with letting your niece go stay with a man you know nothing about to?" Sam shrugged.
"If there's a chance he'll be able to help her understand what she can do I don't see an issue with it. Worse comes to worse we can hunt him down and that's the end of it." Violet felt her frown turn into a smile as she listened to the words come out of her uncle mouth and she saw the wheels in her father's head begin to turn. "Not to mention Dad left us with all kinds of people growing up and we never had an issue."
"When did you become so appreciative of Dad's way of raising us?" Dean questioned.
"I'm not, all I'm saying is that its not going to kill her, and she's right. She's got a pretty good handle on using her powers to protect herself." Dean huffed and looked at the man sitting across from him. Violet seemed to trust him and she hasn't eve been wrong about that before. If she likes someone they tend to be good people and those she doesn't like have always bitten him in the ass. He stood up and moved so he was standing over the guy.
"One hair out of place on her head and I will burn you alive."
Violet's eyes moved around the front yard of the house Anthony led them to. Dean opened the back door of the Impala as they got out. He still wasn't happy about her staying here for the duration of the hunt but Sam continued to persuade him through the night and he caved. Violet was excited to meet more people like herself and Dean was really hoping that it wouldn't blow up in their faces.
"Violet, if anything happens I want you to call me the second it happens." Dean crouched down and handed her the cell phone along with the charger. She smiled and nodded, but she seemed a lot more interested in what was going on around her. Sam had her bag over his shoulder and he laughed at the sight. Dean looked like he didn't know what to do and Violet looked like she was ready to run off and go play. He had no doubt that she already knew how many people were inside and wanted to meet them. Dean sighed and got back up and grabbed her bag off his brother. Anthony reached for it and Dean begrudging handed it over.
"Remember what I said." Dean warned.
"I understand. But we take in magical children from all over the world. She will have plenty of other kids like her to play with." Dean grunted but didn't argue. Sam made a noise in an attempt to remind Dean that they had work to do. It worked.
"Are you sure you're going to be okay here?" Dean asked for the millionth time.
"Yes Daddy. I will be fine." She assured him. He huffed and she wrapped her arms around his waist before they had to leave.
Violet sat in the chair that was on the right side of the living room. She had her hands folded in her lap and her eyes were closed. She was watching the people who lived here move though the house in her mind. Anthony told her to wait here for him to come back after he went to speak to someone. Everyone here felt different in her mind, all of them had a few things that stood out of their energy that caught her attention and it was a lot easier to tell them apart. The only reason she could pick her father and uncle out of a crowd was because she was around them so often that she could just tell.
No one here really felt like her. The were similar in the sense that they were different but at that same time nothing about them had anything to do with her own energy. She pulled her hair over her shoulders to keep her from sitting on it. Dean didn't cut I this morning so it was kind of bothering her. It came down to her mid-thigh and she couldn't even wrap her hand around it completely, it was too thick. It's so difficult for Dean to cut it that him and Sam alternate days so he could have a break.
"Are you hungry?" Anthony questioned as he came back into the room. Violet had been surprised when her father caved but Anthony wasn't. One of his abilities lets people trust him easily and he was more surprised that it took so much convincing for him to allow her to stay.
Violet seemed to be more then happy to be here and he was glad. Hers powers both confused him and intrigued him. It seemed to over flow out of her like a pot of water being left on boil. He's never seen anything like it.
"No thank you." He nodded and sat down on the couch that was closest to her.
"So tell me, what can you do?" Every natural born witch has a power that comes easiest them. With practice and the right amount of training a witch can do just about anything they set their mind to but their attempt wouldn't be as powerful as a witch who had the natural born affinity.
"I can see living things in my mind." She said simply. He nodded again, "and I absorb energy." At least that's how her uncle explained it.
"Absorb it?" She nodded, "how, I mean like where does the energy come from?" She shrugged. The energy came from everywhere. She couldn't think of where it came from exactly, it really came from everywhere. He thought about how to go about it and decided to go to the resident physic. "Follow me." He told her and she hopped up. It didn't take long for her to catch up with him and she was happy to see the rest of the house.
"I was wondering when you would bring the new power by." An old women said as Anthony guided the small girl inside. Violet beamed at her and looked at her though her mind. She had more in common with Missouri then she did with Violet. Her room looked like a dark cave inside a gypsy tent. Violet saw one like it when Dean took her to a Renaissance Festival a few years back. The old women observed her in an amused manner. "My, I haven't seen power like this in almost 50 years. And even then that was in Greece." Violet wasn't sure what that meant so she questioned it. The woman answered her with a question. "Where are your parents from sweetheart?"
"My dad is from here and we don't know where my mom came from." She said. Dean had tried to find out more about her but everything he thought would lead him in the right direction he hit another brick wall. One of the hardest things he had to do was explain to her that she didn't have a mother around. She had never questioned it until she started going to school. Just like she never questioned her powers until she found out that not everybody had them.
"Do you know what your mother's name is?" Violet thought about it and was slightly upset to not know the answer. Dean hadn't told her and she never thought to ask and that made her feel guilty. She shook her head and the old woman sighed. She gestured for the girl to come closer to her and Violet listened. "We'll worry about that later then, why don't you show me what it is that you know how to do?"
Do you think these are good people or bad people and tell me who you think her mother might have been or what do you think happened to her? I would like to know where your minds are. Thanks for reading!