Circles

Dean Winchester

Mystic Falls is a hard place to live.

Coming from me, that's saying something. More evil sons of bitches come to this town on a daily basis than most places ever see in a year. In the span of the three days we've been here we've seen the vampires, werewolves, and hybrids (a cross of the two I didn't know existed) that live and pass through the town. And probably because of that, the townspeople here are more prepared for battle than a lot of hunters I've met. They carry on throughout the day like everything is sunshine and rainbows but when the sun goes down they're ready to do whatever they need to. I saw it a bit in their eyes my first day here. I saw the hunter's look; but even that doesn't really describe it. More than ready to kill and conquer the evil that comes through, they are ready to do whatever it takes to survive here, including compromise (considering how the death rate has slowed incredibly over the last few years I'd say they're doing well). I understand why Bonnie was so quick to say yes to us now. She wanted to skip over the bullshit and stress of a fight and go straight to doing what it took to get us gone. But I think there has to be another reason. Yes, we are damn good hunters and somehow, someway we would have found a way to win, but I'm not sure we would've been prepared for the fight this town would give us. A few days with Bonnie the Good Witch and her vampire gang has showed me that we may have underestimated her and the people here.

Based on what I've heard from Bonnie about this town, I'm even more surprised we weren't called in to investigate it before. There has to be something up with that. But I'm even less surprised about the deal she made. My first thought walking around this town is 'let's kill these evil sons of bitches,' and any other hunter would do the same thing. She knows it too, and her friends and most of the people she loves would be dead (permanently). So wanting us to leave this town as if we'd never been in it is smart. She's only been fighting these monsters since she was seventeen but she's handled it and gotten shit done. If it wasn't for her devotion to her vamp friends she'd definitely make a good hunter. I've got to respect her.

Since we're still technically trying to get these vamps for Crowley, Bonnie gave us permission to hunt the nonessential vampires that roll into town. Now I am not the type to follow orders from anyone let alone ask permission, but after seeing her throw Sam across the room for threatening her friends I figured I should keep my mouth shut (outside of the laugh at the scene). First, though, we had to meet the ones that were off limits.

This girl's friends look like they should have been the cast of Twilight.

They're all young and beautiful and sickeningly perfect. Looking at them and looking at Bonnie you can see that this vampire infestation in this town has gone on for years. None of them, outside of the leech we met with Bonnie first, looks to be over the age of eighteen. You can see it in the way they're built. Where Bonnie's body looks as if it filled in with age (her hips mostly) and her face has slight wrinkles that come with maturing, her friends still have the bodies of adolescents with very high metabolism and no traces of wrinkles ever to come. Don't get me wrong, the girls are hot. But I prefer my women to be a little more mature physically and experienced. It's a plus if their hearts beat too.

Outside of the vampire pack of friends and the witch thing, there's nothing all that bad about Bonnie. She works hard and she's doing what she needs to in order to prepare for this spell into Purgatory. Even the witch thing isn't all that bad compared to what we've seen. She's not the kind that is working for a demon or that even used a demon for her powers. She was just born into a long line of witches. She refers to herself as a 'servant of nature' and besides fighting to keep her undead friends alive, what I've seen from her is someone looking to keep the balance.

She asks us constantly why the demon we're helping wants get into 'the Other Side' as she calls it and all we can do is say he wants to control it. She doesn't believe it. I don't really either but you've got to do what you've got to do. For Sammy's soul it's worth it. I need my brother back.

My patience is running low with the soulless asshole my brother has become but seeing him and Bonnie is always good for a laugh. Including the time she threw him across the room, the only times I've seen Bonnie have any show of power is when she's fighting with Sam. She's not afraid of him and I can tell it pisses him off. It's hilarious. She wipes the floor with his ass every time those snide little comments of his go too far. It's nice to see someone else go off on him for not caring about anything. It seems the only thing that really translates to him is physical pain and Bonnie is quick to help him feel more of that.

I see Bonnie's car parked outside of our motel room as I'm walking in.

"There are certain rituals that go with every spell and I have to wait until the full moon in order to go through with this!" I hear Bonnie yelling to Sam.

"The full moon isn't for a week. Do you expect us to wait here for another week just because you think your spell needs time? I think we've been patient enough with you." Sam hollers back.

"You've been patient? You've been here for three days and in that time it's been constant nagging from you about how long it's taking."

"There are ways to get you to hurry up." Sam says. I can only shake my head. More threats? I didn't realize being soulless made him stupid.

"Oh please, Caroline could snap your neck before you even made a step towards her. Stop thinking you're the big bad wolf when in this town you're just another meal." I hear Bonnie say as I'm standing at the door.

I think it's time for me to go in.

"Kids, I'm home!" I announce as I walk in. I can tell I interrupted just as Sam was about to come back with something else but I think it's time he accepted this battle is lost.

There's a silence and you can feel the tension in the room.

"What's going on in here?" I ask.

"Oh just having a chat with Bonnie about the spell. It's looking like we're gonna have to wait until next week for anything to get done" Sam says with malice in his voice.

Bonnie glares at him a second longer, turns to me and says "It's standard. Every spell calls for different pieces to be complete and this one requires the full moon, which we don't have until next week. I came by to let you guys know."

"Ok." I say.

"Ok? You're fine with us staying here until then?" Sam asks with a bitch face. Soul or no soul, that look is the same.

"We don't have to stay. We could go look into that Rugaru case. It's not far from here and we can get in and out of there before we even need to be back."

Sam's look says it doesn't matter to him. Why fight about it then?

"Fine," he says.

Bonnie looks between us and shakes her head.

"I'm glad we just wasted ten minutes arguing about that," she says with an eye roll to Sam. "I guess I'll be seeing you guys in a week."

"Looks like it" Sam says quickly and grabs his jacket and heads out the door.

"Thanks," I say as I grab her arm to stop her.

"No problem, I'm assuming the sooner we get this all done the sooner he'll get his soul and become…different than he is now."

"Here's really not this guy."

"I'm sure he's not," Bonnie says with recognition hidden beneath her eyes. "We went through something like this with Elena before. She didn't lose her soul or anything but she turned off her humanity and just became an evil version of herself."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah, but all it took was getting that humanity back to bring back the girl we loved. It wasn't an easy feat but it was worth it" she says. "Whoever Sam was before, you'll get him back."

I hope so.

"Want a beer?" I ask her and walk to grab one. When I turn around she's gone.

"What, the moment's gone?" I say when I realize she's left. She snuck out of here pretty fast. "Bonnie?" I call but there's no response.

A minute goes by where I'm left in silence.

Then I hear something shuffling outside of the door. "Bonnie? Sam?" I call. There's no word from them but I still hear movement too close. I pull out my gun and take the safety off. I go gun first outside when I see Bonnie's body lying unconscious on the ground with Sam not too far away. As I look around the place to see what did this I feel a sharp pain and hear a cracking against my skull. My last thought before I hit the ground is just: Oh here we go.

Disclaimer: The characters are the property of the CW. The story is my creation

A/N: I know I lied at the end of the last chapter but I didn't mean to. As I was working on the flashback I realized it would have to reveal more than I want to in order to make sense and I'd like to write a prequel to this. So here is this. It's really just filler for the action to come next chapter.

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