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New Day, New Town

Chapter Ten

"ANNA!" Dean's voice echoed in the mill as he rushed to Anna's unconscious body. "Anna, hey open your eyes." He pulled her into his lap, cradling her head and lighting tapping her cheek.

"Oh my god." Ellie's hand flew to her mouth and tears instantly filled her eyes as she came up behind Dean. Sam stood directly behind her, wrapping his arms around her.

"Damn it Anna, come on." Dean stared down at her, putting his index and middle finger to her throat to find a pulse. He let out a deep when he felt a fait thumping against his finger tips than lifted Anna up in his arms and rushed to the exit, Sam and Ellie following right behind him.

Ellie ran to the back door of Dean's car, getting in before he got there. He carefully laid Anna's in the backseat of the Impala with her head resting in Ellie's lap. Sam was sitting in the front seat already when Dean was sliding behind the wheel and turning on the engine. As soon as the motor lit, the car was throw into drive and Dean slammed his foot on the gas, speeding down the road to the hospital he had noticed earlier.

About ten minutes after getting into the car, they were pulling up to a screeching halt in front of her ER. Dean had his door half open before the car was even fully stopped and Ellie was moving Anna so that Dean would be able to quickly grab her and get inside. With Anna in his arms, Dean turned and rushed into the emergency rooms' lobby area.

A nurse was at his side, seeing a girl laying unconscious in his arms and the panic on his faces and the others with him. "What happened?" She immediately stared to usher him to a gurney where he could lay Anna down.

Dean gently placed her on the elevated mattress. "We were all hiking in the woods, we had just started, and she collapsed. She has a heart condition, but she took her meds this morning. We weren't in on a mountain; it was just a flat trail. I caught her before she could hit the ground, so her head didn't hit anything."

The nurse nodded, buying his every word. "Okay, Mr.-" She trailed off, not knowing Dean's name.

"Lawrence, but just Dean and this is Anna."

The girl nodded. "Dean, we're going to take Anna down to our cardiology wing. Dr. Stiles is the resident doctor and is on his shift right now. He's the best cardiologist on the East Coast, so she'll be in great hands. You may follow me but won't be able to come past the specified waiting area for the wing."

Dean nodded in a small agreement, not really trusting anyone enough to leave Anna's said but not willing to make a huge scene in the hospital. Anything that could delay her seeing a doctor was not something he was going to be a part of. The petite nurse, whose name was June, hustled down the hall with Dean, Ellie and Sam close behind. She turned to them once they reached the door going to into the labs for the cardio wing, telling them they had to wait outside and she'd be sure to keep them all updated. Then she disappeared behind the doors and from view, leaving the three outside to worry about Anna.

Hours went by, June had come out once about two hours after their arrival to tell the group that they were running the tests that they could without her being conscious, but Anna was stable. The entire time Dean was pacing back and forth, going down two floors to the cafeteria or down the hall to find some coffee then when that coffee turned out to taste like mud he went to find a better cup. Never once sitting down, always moving or leaning against the wall tapping his foot or shaking his leg.

Sam got up from his seat, next to a now dozing Ellie, and walked over to where Dean leaned looking out the window down onto the darkened street in front of the hospital. "Dean, why don't you just sit down and try to relax. I know you're worried but you won't be any less concerned if you take a break and sit."

Dean shook his head slowly, his eyes still on the street below watching the cars drive past. "I'm fine here Sammy, why don't you go back and sit with Ellie." His voice was coarse, sad, and tired.

Sam was more worried about his brother now then he was Anna, there wasn't anything that could make Dean act the way he was. He wasn't the one to get into a short depressed state, he was the one who tired to lighten the situation up a little by suggesting to get a beer and hustle some money from some locals at a poker game or a round of pool. Right now Sam was just praying that Anna would be alright, not just because he liked her but because he wasn't sure how Dean would take it if Anna didn't make it or her condition got worse.

"She's asleep, she doesn't need me right now." Sam moved to lean on the other side of the window with his back against the wall.

Dean nodded numbly, only half hearing his brother speaking. He could tell how worried he was about him which Dean hated almost more then he hated the monsters he hunted. He was the older brother, he was supposed to be the one to worry not Sam. But he almost didn't care; Anna was still in with the doctors have gods knows what done and he couldn't be in there with her. There could be a demon in with her and there'd be nothing he could do about it, that may have worried him the most. Not being able to see and speak directly with who ever was working with her.

All any of them could do was wait, which was something none of they were really all that good at. Ellie made some time pass quickly by sleeping for a few hours but Dean and Sam just stood at the window, not even saying anything to each other.

A man in a white lab coat came walking out of the double doors Dean had been told, more then once when his inpatients got the best of him, he could not go through. The man immediately caught his attention and he stood up straight waiting to see if this was Anna's doctor.

"I'm looking for the family of Anna Donnelly?" The man spoke up, looking from a medical cart in his hand. Dean took a step forward, meeting the doctor halfway while Sam went to nudge Ellie awake then joined Dean's side. The doctor extended his hand to Dean and introduced himself. "I'm Dr. Stiles."

"Dean. My brother Sam and Anna's sister Ellie. So how is she?"

Dr. Stiles sighed lightly. "She's stable and still asleep. There was a rapture in her heart, making a tare of sorts."

"A tare in her heart?" Ellie questioned while Dean's eyes widened a little and Sam just stood behind Ellie quietly.

"Yes, a tare. The best way to describe it would be a wall blow out on a car tire. We put her in the OR to operate for a quick fix, we were able to patch it up but that's all it is. A patch job, there's no way to tell how long it'll last. The only true fix would be a complete transplant, which I seen that she has past up twice already."

"Wait, she offered a new heart twice?" Ellie sounded angry, unable to believe Anna hadn't told her about the possible transplants.

"I've only known about this a couple of days but I think that she has no intention of take a donor heart." Dean explained.

Dr. Stiles nodded. "That's what I figured as much, unfortunately with out the transplant her chances of survival aren't good at all. Like I said before there's no way to tell how long this patch job will last. She hasn't officially been removed from the donor list and this last incident shoots her to the top of the list. If she agrees to undergo the surgery and accept the a new heart we can find a donor and have her in surgery within 24 hours. But if she refuses, I'm afraid there's nothing that we'll be able to do except make her as comfortable as we possibly can." Dean stared off behind Dr. Stiles, unable to stare directly at him as he spoke of Anna's condition. After another silent moment the doctor spoke again. "If you'd like to follow me I'll take you to her room, she should be waking up shortly. Maybe one of you will have some luck getting her to agree to the transplant. If you'd like me to explain the procedure to her just have a nurse page me. As far as the surgery, I have done countless heart transplants and all have been successful. I'd be the one scrubbing in so she'd have nothing to worry about going into the surgery."

"Trust me doc, going under the knife isn't her problem." Dean said following Dr. Stiles down a hall with Ellie and Sam to Anna's room.

Walking into the room, it was dim the only light in the room coming from a small lamp in the corner and from the street lights shining in through the window. The steady beeping of the heart monitor echoed in the empty space, oddly comforting Dean to actually hear that Anna's heart was still beating. Ellie was the first to approach the bed, going to her sisters right side and staring a the monitor for a moment before looking at her sister. She reached her hand out pushing a piece of hair behind Anna's ear, sitting on the edge of the bed. Sam moved to the foot of the bed for a moment before going to sit in the corner, not feeling the connection to Anna that Ellie had as her sister or Dean had as boyfriend or whatever they were; he still wasn't sure.

Dean stood in the door way for a little while, watching as Sam sat in the corner and Ellie sit by her sisters side. All his thoughts were on Anna and how he was going to convince her to get a heart transplant. It wasn't as if they'd be actually killing someone for her to be healthy, who knows how the person will have died. If she took their heart it would add more meaning to the life they had, they'd become a hero in his eyes and he was sure Ellie's too. Anna and Dean had just reconnected, he wasn't ready to loose that yet, especially finding out that his high school sweetheart was actually a hunter like him. There was no need for him to keep any secrets from her, he could actually see himself settling down in a way. Not necessarily quitting the job but spending the job working with her, honestly he'd love to just drop it all and live in house with the white picket fence of normalcy but he didn't see that happening. They were both in the life for too long that there would never be any normalcy for them. But they could have a life together, maybe have a kid or two then maybe if there were kids they'd back off the hunting thing.

There was too much fire in Anna for her life to end so soon, the girl who was face to face with her English teacher and tackled him would never give up without a fight. But she had been fight, hadn't she? Living with this heart problem for the last eight years was a fight in itself, just because she had declined a new heart twice didn't mean she was giving up. Maybe she was just trying to find another way to fight without needing something from someone else. The this was, her strategy wasn't going to work. She needed the help of a stranger and Dean needed her to take the help.

TBC

A/N: So I think this is a pretty good chapter, not too much dialogue but if you've ever been in a hospital with family for an emergency like this there sometimes isn't really much talking. Everyone's mind is on who ever they're there for. There will be more dialogue in the next one, I swear and it'll be mainly Dean and Anna. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the newest update, let me know how you think the story is so far.

P.S. I reread a couple chapters from First Day, New School and can I just say…I sucked at writing. I couldn't even figure out who was speaking all of the time and I wrote the damn thing! So I'd like to that everyone who had read that and gave me the pointers in the beginning! You obviously made me a better write and I truly appreciate it!

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Thank you MUCH! Jenna.