Chapter One

So, Hope was pretty certain something was up in Drew, which was barely five miles from Sioux Falls. She was thinking werewolf, given that all the vics' hearts were missing and she wasn't entirely stupid.

Normally, Bobby would have got someone to deal with it, or dealt with is himself. Problem was, Bobby was off helping some newbie hunter with his case.

Hope didn't know if anyone was in the area and the cycle was coming up, which would only mean more bodies.

Anyway, it was the middle of July, and it wasn't as if she had anything better to do.

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The ten-year-old packed silver bullets, cash and some clothes, along with a few other weapons just in case. The money was important. In her experience, motel and diner owners didn't care how young you were if you had money, and Hope looked older than she was, in any case.

She scribbled a note to Bobby, figuring that she was already screwed when she got back so there was no reason to make it any worse, and grabbed her keys.

Outside, she contemplated whether to just cycle. Five miles would be easy for her to ride and it would cause fewer questions.

Also, her bike was her baby. It was pretty badass-looking, too, with blue and silver stripes, and it had twelve gears.

Hope hefted her rucksack up onto her shoulders, testing the weight, and hopped on the bike.

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When she rolled into Drew forty-five minutes later, she noticed a '67 Impala that looked suspiciously like her dad's, but wrote it off as a coincidence. After all, he'd been dead for a couple years by then.

Her first plan of action was to see if there were any abandoned buildings she could hide out in, which would be less stressful than a motel. Hope hated talking to random people like that: receptionists, shop owners, anyone behind a desk she was expected to give money to, really.

She turned the corner just before Sam and Dean Winchester, who happened to be her half-brothers, could see her.

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Good God, Hope was glad she had short hair. Her father had always insisted that it be as short as most of her male peers', which came in handy for disguises and hot weather, not to mention safety reasons. Nobody would ever have to worry about her hair getting caught on something in the middle of a fight.

As a plus, the bats in the deserted warehouse she'd set up shop in were clearly not going to get caught in her hair like they got caught in the pathetic 'heroines' in those lame and usually totally inaccurate horror movies hair.

After a little snooping, she was reasonably sure the werewolf was a man named Joseph Foreman. Mr. Foreman had been found unconscious at the scene of one of the murders the previous month. He'd been taken in for questioning, but released without charge. That was good enough for Hope.

She loaded her gun full of silver bullets, discovered a silver knife in her rucksack that she must have left in there after that last shapeshifter hunt, and ate a protein bar for nourishment, before setting out.

It was only five blocks to Joseph Foreman's house, so she walked. As she was arriving, she saw two vaguely familiar guys in suits walk out of the house.

She racked her brains for a second and recalled that they were the men who'd exorcised that demon in the front room when she was seven.

"Hi," she started awkwardly.

The taller dude (she never had caught his name) stared at her, but Dean registered her face and asked "Hope?"

"Yeah. I was just going to ask Mr. Foreman a few friendly questions. You know, seeing as there's a werewolf about."

"Wait, who are you exactly?" Asked the tall guy.

"Uh, well, my name's Hope Winchester-"

Her sentence was cut off by a barrage of what and excuse me and she had to yell to be understood.

"What's so weird 'bout that?"

"You're sure?"

Hope raised an eyebrow "I'm pretty sure I know my own name, yeah. If you want any more, my middle name's Mary."

"Uh, Hope? Could you give us a minute?" asked Dean. Hope shrugged.

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"You think she's telling the truth?" demanded Sam.

Dean considered, then muttered "Well, she does kinda look like you, man. If you were a ten-year-old girl, that is."

"So what do we do about it? She obviously has no idea who we are, unless she's the best actress in the world."

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It doesn't take very long for an ADHD ten-year-old to get bored, so Hope eventually enquired, in the most sarcastic voice possible, the one she'd learnt off Bobby "So, will I ever learn why stating my name was a crime against humanity? Really, the suspense is killing me."

Dean sighed and turned to her. "What do you know about your family?"

Hope looked at him like he was crazy, but shrugged and answered "Not much. My dad's name was John, but he bit it a while back now. We didn't have a great relationship, to say the least. Hated each other's guts. Anyway, some demon got him, and that was that. I've never met my mom. I know her name, but I've never really had any particular desire to meet the woman who abandoned me."

Weirdly, thunder rumbled at that exact moment. Dean saw a flash of what looked like pure terror cross the kid, his little sister's face, but she covered it so quickly he wondered if he'd just imagined it.

"Okay, Hope. This is going to sound a little weird, but my name's Dean Winchester and this is my brother Sam. If what you're saying is true, we're your half-brothers."

She answered at the same time as Sam grabbed him and half-yelled "Dean! Are you crazy?" but he was pretty sure she'd said something along the lines of and I'm a straight-A student.

"Sam, do you really think she's lying? Look at her, man!"

Hope started yelling. "Okay! You know what? I'm not lying! Now, do we or do we not have actual tests we can do to prove that everyone here is what they say they are?"

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Hope wasn't, generally, a liar. She was also fully aware that as a demigod, a lot of hunters would see her as a monster, a freak to be murdered. Hope had been to Camp Half-Blood for a couple weeks, but she'd ditched the place after a few, uh, screaming matches between her and Chiron, who had a thing against pantheon hoppers. However, she'd stayed long enough to pick up a lot of incriminating evidence. Like her sword, for instance.

Fortunately, hunters didn't test for godly ancestry. She came up as human after swigging from her flask of holy water (some hunters had an arsenal in their cars, she had the Rucksack of Doom.). None of them were shapeshifter, either.

"Okay, you got the car. God, I missed this car. Hey, did you guys ever find the H.M.W. I scratched in there? Hope Mary Winchester, see. Dad yelled at me for like an hour, but whatever."

"Now she reminds me of you even more." Whispered Dean to his brother.

They managed to fit Hope's bike in the trunk, after the brothers had confirmed that Joseph Foreman had bene the werewolf and was now a corpse.

"I don't like that thing being in my car!" Grumbled Dean for maybe the fifth time, to which Hope snapped that she didn't exactly have a license and she had to get around somehow, right?

They drove for a while, and they all picked up some more facts about each other. Sam and Dean learned that Hope had ADHD and dyslexia, she discovered some stuff about them, and she made a lame joke about her third of July birthday ("I didn't want to wait for the fireworks, apparently".).

Hope was definitely a mix of both of them in temperament, a smartass like Dean for sure, but with a serious side that resembled Sam's. Unique to her, however, was her biting intelligence.

"You're going to die, aren't you?" She asked Dean.

"What? How'd you…"

"I'm good at working stuff out, I guess. Sorry. And he's pissed at you, so I'm guessing you did something dumb?"

"You don't know me."

"No, I don't. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have brought it up."

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Hope was grounded for a week for running off to shoot a werewolf without asking. She flounced off into her room, and Bobby explained the situation he'd been in ten years before when he'd effectively adopted her minus the demigod stuff.

So, that was when the first piece of the puzzle fell into place. The Winchester siblings had met.

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