New Day, New Town
Disclaimer: Sam and Dean are not mine
Chapter Eight
The bright rays of sun came shining in through the large hotel window, the room small enough to be illuminated by just the sun coming in. Anna was lucky enough to be laying so the sun came in and shined on her face. Even though the light was so bright and was right in her eyes, she didn't stir nor did she wake.
Dean woke up first, un able to sleep with the light coming into the room. He opened his eyes, squinting a bit, and looked to his left and noticed Anna sleeping soundly with her head on his arm and her bare back pressed to his side. He rolled to his side just a little to see Anna's face. She looked so peaceful, the sunlight shining a golden haze over her face made it look like she was almost glowing. Dean laid beside her as she sleep just watching her, taking in the enhanced beauty the light was giving her. After another couple minutes, Anna began to stir, her eyes slowly fluttering open. Dean leaned forward, lightly touching his lips to her bare shoulder. She turned her head to look at where the touch came from, her eyes partly closed. The corner of Anna's mouth twitched up just a little.
"Hey." She said softly, her voice a little hoarse.
Dean smirked. "Hey." He place his hand on her hip, turning so she laid on her back rather then her side. "Sleep well?"
Anna nodded, her smile growing. "Very well. Waking up not so fun though." Her voice still no more then a whisper as she spoke.
"Oh no? Why's that?" Dean lean forward, lightly kissing her neck.
Anna let out a soft laugh. "Mm, 'cause I may have drank too much." She twisted and pulled away from Dean. "Stop, that tickles."
He grinned wide. "You don't sound like you want me to stop." His voice was slightly muffled since he had his head buried in Anna's neck.
"Yeah," She smiled, turning to her side so the front of her body faced Deans'. "Well I do want you to stop."
Dean stared at Anna, looking into her emerald green eyes. He reached his hand up to her face, pushing a strand of hair behind her ear. "Okay."
"Okay? That's it?" Anna looked at Dean with genuine surprise, thinking he wouldn't give up that easily.
"Yup, that's it. Me and you are in a good spot right now, I like it. I don't need you to be pissed at me over something stupid." Dean kissed her cheek and sat up, moving to his side of the bed and pulling on his pants. Anna sat up as well, leaning against the wall behind the bed with the sheets pulled up watching Dean get dressed. "Are you watching me get dressed you little perv?" He turned to the bed smirking once again.
Anna rolled her eyes. "Like it's really that big of a deal? Hey while you're up could you look in my bag and see if I have any aspirin in there? It's the black one next to the dresser, if I have any it's in the inside pocket."
Dean nodded and bent down to look in Anna's bag. He opened the zipper and began to look for the aspirin. In his search he came across two orange prescription pill bottles; the first for Metoprolo and the second for Disopyramide. He stare at the bottles, not such what they were taken for, making a mental note of the names and placing them back in the bag.
"Did you find it?" Anna now stood, wearing Dean's black T-shirt that was over sized on her but fit right on him.
He stared at her, open mouth for a moment trying to see any sign of her being sick but didn't see any sign of her being unhealthy. "Umm, no I didn't. You sure you have some?"
"Nope, not really. Just hoped I might. I'll just grab some from the store down the road later or see if Ellie has some." Anna walked to the front of her bed, bending down by Dean to pick up her bag. "I'm going to shower quick and change. Then I'm think I want waffles, you in?" Dean was zoned out still stuck on the pills he found in Anna's duffle bag. "Dean…Hello, Dean? You want breakfast?"
"Huh? Oh…uh, yeah. I just need a shirt then I'm good to go."
Anna stared at Dean for a moment. "Okay, well like I said I'm going to shower quick first."
"Oh, right. Yeah, go ahead. I'll see if Sammy and El are in. I'll bring her some clean clothes too, the blue ones hers?"
Anna nodded and walked into the bathroom. She set her bag on the counter, opening it up and pulling out the two bottles Dean had found before. She turned on the shower and let the water run to get warm, while she filled a small paper cup up with water and placed one of each of the two pills in her hand.
Ellie woke up before Sam and was already in the shower when he did wake up. Before she got out he had pulled on a clean pair of pants and was looking through his duffle bag for a shirt. When Ellie walked out, with a towel wrapped around her body, she saw Sam leaning over the bed looking through his bag. She leaned against the doorway of the bathroom, staring at Sam, watching the muscles on his back flex slightly as he pawed through the nylon bag.
Sam glanced behind him, hearing a small nose coming from behind him. He looked back and saw Ellie in the doorway with a smirk. Sam smiled back at her. "What?"
Ellie shrugged. "Nothing, just…Looking." Her smile grew as she walked further into the room, coming to stand next to Sam.
"Looking, huh? Looking at what exactly?"
"You I guess." Ellie turned to sit on the bed, looking up at Sam.
"Yeah?" Sam smiled, leaning his face down closer to Ellie's face. She smiled up at him, nodded just a bit.
Just as Sam was about to kiss Ellie, there was a knock at the door. He groaned, straightening himself up and went to the answer the door.
"Whoa. Dude, put a shirt on when you answer the door." Dean stepped inside the room that he and Sam had been sharing. "Seriously, no one needs to see that in the morning."
"Why don't you put a shirt on before you decide to wander the town."
"All my clothes are here Sammy-Boy." Dean looked up and noticed Ellie, who was now standing, wearing just a towel. "Oh, sorry. I'm just here to get my stuff and deliver yours." Dean smiled holding out Ellie's blue duffel bag.
"Thank you so much, I thought I'd have to wear something dirty or Sam's gigantic clothes." Ellie took the bag and disappeared back into the bathroom.
Sam groan. "I'm never getting into that bathroom. So, what happened to you and Anna last night anyway? El and me left the bar, you guys stayed. When did you even leave?"
Dean shrugged. "We did some more drinking, played another round of pool which Anna won. Then we walked back here. I spent the night in her room because you took the only key we had and I assumed Ellie was here with you. I didn't want to make her get up so I just went with Anna."
Sam stared at Dean, knowing that wasn't the whole story. "Annnnnd? What else?"
"Annnnnd we went to sleep. The end." Dean grabbed his bag and threw it up on the bed, looking through it for a clean shirt. He pulled out a deep gray t-shirt and pulled it on over his head.
"Why do I think that's not the whole story?"
"Not sure Sammy, hey boot up your computer will ya." Dean said moving over to the table Sam's laptop sat on.
"No way Dean, you're not looking at porn."
"That's not what I'm doing, I want to check something I found." He hit the power button and wait for the computer to turn on.
Sam sat in the chair on the other side of the table. "Check what?"
Dean opened up the browser and started typing the name of the pills he found in Anna's bag. "Anna had asked me to look and see if she had any aspirin in her bag. I didn't find any but in my search I did find these two prescription pill bottles. One for…..Meto-pro-lo or something and the other is for Diso-py-ramide?"
Sam moved the chair over so he could look at the screen and saw Dean had searched Metoprolo first. "I know that on is pronounced 'me-te-proe-lole' it's a beta-blocker I think to he keep blood pressure down. What was the other one?" Dean typed in Disopyramide. "That one looks familiar, I think that's used to help with abnormal heart rhythms. Click that first link." Dean click the link and a page for PubMed Health was opened.
Dean read the important warnings box at the top on the page. "Great. 'Disopyramide usually is used only to treat life-threatening arrhythmias.' What the hell is 'arrhythmias' and why is it life-threatening?"
"It's a conduction where the heart either beats too fast or too slow or both, that's the life threatening part. Anna's does both." Ellie stood in the bathroom doorway, looking at Dean. "She has to take the one pill to keep her blood pressure at a safe level and the other keeps her heart at a normal rhythm."
Dean just stared back at Ellie, not believing what she was saying. "But, she looks fine."
"She may look fine but she's been in a transplant list for about 5 years now, a list she's trying to get off of."
"What? Why?" Dean practically yelled.
"I'm not sure." Ellie walked into the room and sat one the bed, facing Dean. "I think she doesn't want to be alive because someone else is dead."
"Wow, but doesn't hit hurt? I mean if she misses a dose her heart will get out of wack won't it? Why won't she want too take a chance and get a new heart to stop all that?" Sam asked.
"Because someone will still have to die for her to live healthy." Dean stood up, shutting down Sam's computer.
"Yeah, but they'd died in a car accident or something." Sam argued.
"It's doesn't matter Sam."
"But Dean-"
"When someone has to died so you can live then you'll understand her feelings on this. Until then Sam, there's no argument you can make to change her mind."
Dean walked out the door and back to Anna's room. As he walked everything seemed to blur and swirl in front of him. If she has a heart condition, a serious heart condition, why is she still hunting. She's going to kill herself, those pills only set back any serious issues they won't stop it.
When Dean opened the door, Anna was out of the shower and dress in a pair of deep blue, low-rise jeans that hugged her legs. She had on a crimson red tank-top with a black and gray, flannel printed button up blouse. Her dark chocolate brown hair was pulled into a pony-tail. She turned around when she heard the door open, smiling when she saw Dean.
"Hey, you were over there a while. Everything okay?"
Dean closed the door and sat on the edge of the bed, looking up at Anna. "You tell me, is everything okay?"
Anna looked at Dean like he had five heads. "What are you talking about?"
"When I was looking for the aspirin in your bag I found something else, two things actually. Two prescription bottles, now while I was over in the other room I used Sam's computer to look up these to names on the bottle. Turned out Sam knew the one was for blood pressure, not a big deal really lots of people have high or low blood pressure. As long as the meds are taken it's nothing really dangerous. But the other one, you know the first thing I saw when I looked that up? 'Disopyramide usually is used only to treat life-threatening arrhythmias'. And it turns out arrhythmias is heart condition, but you knew that already."
Anna stared at Dean, she wanted to be mad and if be went snooping through her bag then she would have been. But she had asked him to look for something for her head, not even thinking. He was the one angry, which began to make her angry.
"Dean, you have no reason to be angry at me. I didn't do anything wrong."
"No, but you did keep the fact that you're more or less dying from me."
"I'm not dying Dean!"
He shot up off the bed. "Maybe not but you could drop dead at any minute. And you want off the donor list. I understand that, I do. Probably better then anyone, but you can't stop living or wanting to live just because someone gets hit by a drunk driver. If it's something that happens naturally then why not take the heart?"
"Because I don't want it! The person who dies, who ever they are, they have a family! People who love them, Dean! Maybe people who need them!"
"What do you call your sister? You think she doesn't need you?"
"Ellie will be fine with out me, other then her there is no one else in the world who needs me. I don't have anyone else to miss me when I'm gone."
Anna saw Dean's jaw tighten and saw wetness building up in his eyes. "Yeah? What about me? You don't think I'd miss you when you're gone?"
"Dean, 24 hours ago we hated each other." Anna felt tears rolling down her face.
"I never hated you Anna, you got under my skin a lot like this girl I knew in high school." Dean smirked, bringing his hand up to Anna's face wiping a tear away with his thumb. "Just, please do me a favor and consider taking a transplant if you get a call."
"Dean I don't-"
"I know, I know. But please, just as long as we're working together. And no trying to ditch me."
Anna smiled softly. "Fine, deal."
"I love winning." Dean wrapped his arms around Anna and pulled her close to him, resting his head on top of hers.
"I had to let you win something. Since I kicked your ass at pool."
TBC
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-Jenna