Disclaimer: I do not own Supernatural or the characters but I have managed to make them into something they hunt but in a good way.
Warning: This is based in an alternate universe where the boys are shapeshifter twins that were adopted by John and Mary after their real parents, close friends of the hunters who were killed by Gordon. They are later adopted by Bobby after the Winchesters are killed on a hunt. He does know they are shifters and has raised them as Hunters, like their adopted parents had been doing while teaching them to be good shifters and how to hide what they are from others.
No, the other hunters don't know they are shifters and they are good at acting human but are fully shapeshifters not human genetically but raised to behave as human by their parents. No, there will be no Lucifer, Michael, or vessel, or leviathan plots in this storyline just the boys hunting as Hunters and shifters.
Yes, there will be Wincest but I will keep it brief and romantic as possible. This isn't that kind of story.
Plot: Well, the babies were born and now they are in store for some big changes…wonder what they could be…hmmm.
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The babies grew quicker than expected and soon they were nearly three years old…and it had only been a year and half. And their shifts were coming more often, mostly uncontrolled ones which made them glad they were homeschooling them since it would have been obvious they were shifters otherwise.
Training was rough on them. Every day they had to shift and hold it, not change into someone or something else once shifted and to hold it for an hour or two. The journal said this would help stabilize their shifting abilities and prevent further uncontrolled shifts as they got more used to it and older. Although the uncontrolled shifting would continue until they were nearly 10, or in another year…with the way they were growing, they aged rapider. But the journal had said that after ten their shifts would stabilize, their powers and gifts would be more controlled, and they would stop aging so fast, age normally after that. The way the boys had.
Which offered them hope, they'd been worried this would hurt them someday.
Jodi sat on the hood of her car one day, soon after their third birthday party, which she had to miss because of police business; a rushed affair but busy none the less. The boys were now using their new remote control plane to rush around the yard, laughing as it swooped and dived, Dean flying it for them, clearly having just as much fun with it as they were. "He's a big kid himself." Jodi chuckled.
"Yeah, but…he's a big sexy kid." Sam teased and saw Dean shoot him a heated look that promised a reprisal for that remark later, and a chin nudge told Dean he was more than ready for any reprisals he chose to attempt on him…both would enjoy them very much.
"I wouldn't know about that." Jodi said then sighed. "I get them while you're gone, you sure? No showing up early and taking them home on me like last time…" She'd had them one day and they had swooped in and carried them away, leaving her home feeling empty yet again. She'd been promised two days but only gotten one, and having those kids around, running through her house…had been the happiest time she'd known in years…she wanted those footsteps back again, however brief their visit might be.
"Yes, might take a bit longer though…it's a demon nest. Dad and Mom are renovating her Saloon, Lee is going on a hunt with Lonnie, and Cheryl is too far away to babysit them for us on such short notice." Sam said. "Ash and Jo are off on their honeymoon until next week. Lenore is busy with some bigwigs this week at work. So that leaves you."
"I don't mind, I like having them around." Jodi said as one spotted her, Remmie. He squealed happily as he abandoned his 'plane' play and ran to hug her. His brother, Rommie, not to be ignored, the jealous thing, ran behind him calling her name as well.
"Aunt Jodi!" They said in unison. "We missed you…you missed our party…" Rommie said.
"We had cake and everything!" Remmie finished his brother's thought and made them eye them with smiles again.
"I had a bust to make, sorry. But I got a present for you boys at my house." Jodi promised them. She took the box with the plane and remote in it and sat it in the back seat for them, along with their clothes bag and toys from their fathers. "I'll take good care of them, I promise."
"Anything comes after them…shoot first, fuck the questions…I mean it." Dean said eying them anxiously. Worry evident in his crinkled brow. "We could get another hunter to take the hunt…"
"No, I got them. I'll kill anything or anyone that comes near them to hurt them, I swear!" Jodi rushed to say and they still eyed them worried. "Look, I get they might be in danger…the other shifters don't know about them yet, don't worry. I'll do it the way you said to, I promise."
"And make them practice their shifting, Rommie keeps trying to cheat on the 'no switching forms' part, don't let him do it. He'll do it when you look away, so keep your eye on him at all times…Remmie is holding his forms better, so he needs less watching. Rommie is being a stinker about it right now." Sam told her. "Try a few downloads, surface stuff, no more…see if they get it. Just the thought reading, not the shifting part at the same time they are doing it…that comes later."
"I'll do that." Jodi said and eyed the pair already fighting over the plane in the backseat. "Stop it or I will give it back to your fathers and you won't play with it the whole time they are gone! Put it back and don't touch it again." She told them. The boys carefully put it back and quietly took their seats again, eyes guilty looking and sorry already. "Come hug your Dads goodbye, I have to go now."
They obediently ran out and hugged both men tight and kissed their cheeks. "Be careful, Daddy, Mommy…" Rommie told them.
"We love you." Remmie said finishing his thought again. A creepy but expected Twin gift they'd gotten used to by now.
"We love you, too. Both of you." Each man said picking them up and kissing their soft cheeks, making them giggle for them. "We'll work on the other training later, promise."
"Daddy, why can't we take the deeper memories, won't it make the shifts better?" Rommie said not understanding why they forbade him from doing them that way.
"No…it won't. It… I'll explain when we get back, total honesty, I promise." Dean told the boy. "It's bad when we do that. We can forget who we really are…that's why. There's more but we are in hurry…so we'll tell you when we get back."
"Yes, Daddy." The boy said eyes troubled. "I'll only do the surface thoughts then, I don't want to forget who I am."
"Good boy." Dean told him and proudly ruffled his hair. "Get in the car, sons. She's got to go."
They nodded, hugged them tight one last time and kissed their fathers' cheeks and got in as asked to. "You will explain it to me later, too." Jodi said eyes serious, she sensed something wrong there.
"Yes, ma'am, we'll tell everyone. Including you. We have something to talk with you all about later, too…so we'll invite everyone." Sam said and she looked worried them. "Nothing bad, I promise."
"Be careful, you know demons hate you guys most." Jodi said before putting the car in reverse.
"We will." Dean said and they waved her off, little hands joining hers in waving back, their hearts following those kids in that car, missing them already. Separation issues were alive and well in both the parents and kids here, Dean sighed and thought then. Damn but he missed those boys when he had to take off like this…and always prayed he got back to them safely each and every time as well.
Not like their parents had. He didn't want to do that to their sons.
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Sam walked on his leash like the good dog he was, sniffing the grass at times. People petted his head and said he was such a pretty dog. Sam thought he was a pretty dog, too. Pretty good at not biting them everytime they did it.
'Sam, got anything?' Dean sent him mentally as he jogged beside him.
Both looking to all the world like a jogger out for a run with their dog. The ladies eyed him appreciatively in his sweatpants and tank top as they walked past, speed walking. Sam thought they should walk faster, so he might not be able to catch them to bite them if they did. 'Dean, I got nothing. They haven't been here.'
'Two hearts have been taken, on this trail and from joggers like me…of course they have been here.' Dean sent and sat on a bench nearby drinking water as Sam lounged beside him. 'They have to have a scent.'
He eyed the water across from him, the lower cement wall there, low enough for some resourceful soul to climb over…he had an idea. So he went to stand by it and looked down. There were some banks below, the water wasn't that deep. One could swim it and still touch the bottom…walk across it even. But water didn't carry scent. Well, not much anyway. Normal animals couldn't smell it but they could. Probably wereanimals, too…water couldn't mask scent from them, not the barest trace of it either.
The thing could have come from there, leaped up and climbed over, got the heart, got down and…ate down there and swam away. Dean had an idea. He picked their way through some trees nearby and watched the water flow. He saw nothing but his nose got something…faint but there. A were scent. Wolf, it was musky like that. But again it was faint, not conclusive enough. 'Sam, get down there, check out that scent, go bird, lover.' Dean sent.
Sam went to the form of a sparrow and flew down, hovering as he sniffed the ground without leaving track or scent of his own there. He didn't want to scare it off. 'Got something. Blood and wolf, it's here under the railing. He must eat them here then go…' He got sniffing again and found the trail, out the other way and to the left off the bank. 'Under and back to the left, up the bank…the prints are human but small. Too small to be adult, not a kid either. I'm thinking smaller teen or preteen.'
'So…teen or preteen is turned then just starts eating hearts. That's a big leap.' Dean thought and Sam flew by him to sit on his shoulder, staying as a bird for now. Dean chuckled as his wing brushed his neck. 'That tickled, Sam.'
'Sorry, had to tuck the wing. Not used to being a bird, it's not often I go this small.' Sam said.
'Not a problem, you are a cute sparrow.' Dean teased him then got serious again, sitting under a tree to think. Watching the water still. 'We should look into animal attacks on teens, see what we find. We might find them that way.'
'I could do it.' Sam offered and Dean nodded imperceptibly.
'Yeah…we should head back to the car now. We got what we came for.' Dean said.
'No, I should see if I can find its lair. It has to be nearby.' Sam argued.
'Well, not alone you won't.' Dean growled mentally.
'Then go bird with me, it will be faster that way.' Sam said and soon Dean joined him as a bird, their clothes stashed under a bush nearby. 'This way, I can follow the scent.'
'Lead on.' Dean said and they flew off, the scent got stronger and soon they found a hovel made of sticks and dirt, pretty sturdy and well made, it looked human made, too. There was a blanket in the corner and a cold fire in the middle. And a smaller teen girl nearby sleeping. They flew over her and sighed. 'She's alone…'
'Wonder why, wolves generally don't let their young out on their own at this age yet.' Sam said.
'We could talk to her first, see what's up?' Dean offered.
'Well, go big then, we'll be naked but then again, she should be used to that.' Sam said and they nodded, going big and crouching around her. "Hey, you, wake up!" Dean urged her and brown eyes shot open and she cried out in fear.
"Don't rape me!" She fairly screamed.
"Um, we're shifters, we shift naked. This isn't what you think." Dean pointed out.
"Animal ones, like me?" She asked, pulling her legs up to hide herself better. She only had one blanket, and she was sitting on it, and if she stood to get it on her, she'd show all she owned anyway; so this pose was the better alternative.
"No, we do people or human. We're shapeshifters, but good ones, not the evil kind. Let us explain…" Sam said and she nodded. He told her most of it, leaving out some but not much. "So, you are a werewolf, where is your Pack? Why are you out here alone?"
"They…my parents are dead, someone got them. I was their only child. This man was hunting me, and I hid, then got…I have blank spots. Blocks of time I can't account for. He found me and injected me with something, then said he was testing a theory…that's when I got confused." She said. "What's wrong with me?"
"He must have used the drug to make you lose control and go for the human hearts." Dean surmised.
"I would never do that!" The girl said in disgust. "I hunt animals, little ones when I'm hungry."
"No, you've been eating hearts…we scented it. It's how we tracked you." Dean said and she paled as she realized he was telling the truth.
"I…the lost time…I've been killing people, taking hearts? Why would I do that?" She cried now. Sam held her to comfort her and he sighed.
"He amped up your hunger with a drug that messed with you somehow…that's why." Sam said. "Schizophrenics go through it all the time, but with you it's lethal. We should see how to fix it."
"Where did you see him last?" Dean asked gently, "Where did he inject you?"
"By the college there, I was sitting on a bench eating lunch, hiding in plain sight, then he pulled me into the trees and injected me there on my neck. Said his piece and left." She said.
"Show us where." Sam said. "We'll go bird, it's easier to hide that way."
"Okay, I'd like to see that." She said smiling and soon two sparrows flew where two men once sat. "Wow, you are really birds!"
The birds nodded and she got the point. 'Yes, we are. Now let's go.' Was the inferred meaning there. She got up and walked, stopping by some trees and pointing. "That bench."
The men nodded and took form again to speak to her briefly, hiding in the thickest part of them. "That's the library…that one says Science Building, there are labs in there…bet he works in there." Sam said pointing. "We can't get in there like this."
"Where are your clothes?" She asked.
Dean told her and she nodded. "Stay here, I'll get them." She said.
"Can you drive?" Dean asked, hating this already.
"Yes, I have my license." She said rolling her eyes, "I'm seventeen…not six."
"Not saying that. There's a black impala in the parking lot by the sign at the entrance to the Park there. KY2 is the last numbers on the plate, that's my car. I need you to get my clothes and the car, drive them here and park it right there in front of us, by the other ones. Can you do that?" Dean said. "Don't wreck it, but I need that car now."
"I won't! I'm a safe driver, I'll have you know…my Dad…shit, not going to cry again!...he always said I was the safest and most careful driver he'd ever seen…why did they take them?" She sobbed then quit.
They caught the wording then asked. "You said they were dead, then you said they were taken, which is it?" Dean said.
"They were taken last week by some guys in these black suits, they told me to hide. Dad was sick though, he got some toxins in him from the last place we hid at's water. We were nursing him then she got sick suddenly and then they were just…there. I hid and, when I came out, they were gone and there was blood nearby, lots of it. So I figured…" She said.
"You figured they killed them while taking them…good assumption." Sam said and patted her shoulders. "They might not be dead. He might have just captured them to study…scientists do that." He had a bad thought there. "They can't get their DNA, Dean. They may be wolves but they are shifters…they can't figure out the DNA or they could move onto us next, to Shapeshifters, and vampires…Dean!" Sam said worried.
"I see your point. Science or not, the world cannot learn more than it already has about the Supernatural. You are right, we need to get them out then destroy their data, plant a virus or something…" Dean thought.
"I could do that, but it would take me being right there at their system…and they will have video cameras." Sam pointed out.
"Not if we take them out." Dean said and Sam nodded, hands on their guns. "Shoot out what I can't shut down."
"I can hack in, you do the rest." Sam said and they agreed it could work. "Go back that way, get the car for us."
She ran to do it and half an hour later, she neatly parked it right near them and got out. She ran the bundles of clothes to them and they quickly dressed. "What can I do to help?" She asked.
"Keep her running, we might need the getaway." Dean said tensely and dug out ID's for the building. Homeland Security would work fine. "Let's go." He said as he adjusted his tie in annoyance. "Hate suits!"
"Still look like a fifth grader going to his first dance, Dean." Sam teased him.
"Well…so do you." Dean teased back and smiled. "Okay, enough fun, let's get this done."
"You rhymed." Sam chuckled and Dean gave him an annoyed look. "It was funny, sorry…and you call me petty, wow."
Dean just ignored that barb and they headed in. The guards quickly let them in on the pretense of checking out a possible security issue. The doctors bought it when they said they had a call about a new virus they had found.
And the parent lay on a table nearby struggling weakly as some guy cut into their chests.
Dean had enough.
"Let them up." He ordered, hand on his gun. "We don't torture people, or have you forgotten that?"
The doctor doing it stilled and nodded to them. "They aren't people, they are monsters."
"There are no such things as monsters." Dean stated firmly, even though he knew better. But, playing human, he had to look as if he didn't believe it at all. "Those are people and you will desist what you are doing or I will arrest you for it."
"No, they aren't…you don't understand…" The doctor tried to argue.
"What I understand is you are harming people and you are doing some twisted experiments on them…so that's all I need to know. There is no virus, is there? Just you doing sick shit to people…" Sam growled and took his safety off when Dean did. "Step away from them now."
The doctor obeyed.
They arrested him and then had security take him to the cells. They in turn got busy, Sam got the system shut down, planted the virus, and erased all security footage, and got what data they had downloaded to a flash drive of his own. Then they carried the parents out and were free of the building after blustering they'd be back for the doctor later. He nearly pissed himself at that threat, Dean happily noticed.
"Drive." Dean told the girl as they shoved into the backseat with them and they were gone, even as the lab found out they weren't really homeland security at all but also had no footage to identify them neither either, nor no prints or trace of them to find. Not even on the keyboard, they'd worn gloves.
They had just begun to understand werewolf DNA when this had happened. All their Data lost, their files corrupted and destroyed, even the mainframe, the virus had taken it all in seconds. They just had to find more subjects! They thought now in anger.
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They stopped at a motel outside of town and got a room, laying the parents on the bed to rest while their daughter looked on worried. Sam handed him a couple syringes marked 'antidote' and Dean eyed them doubtfully. "They don't say the antidote for what, Sam. It could kill them."
"What choice do we have? They'll die if we don't." Sam said anxiously. "What's your name?" He asked the girl. Something they already should have, considering she had saved their lives.
"Susan, call me Sue." She said. "Look, do it. If it was near them, it probably went to them. Just try."
Dean carefully poked them with each one and shot it into their necks. Sam took the other one and waited. They jerked and seized while she cried and they held them down and watched their tongues so they wouldn't choke on them or swallow them. Soon they were still and they got off them. Time passed and they slept.
Then rolled over and puked on the floor on each side of the bed. Then sat up groggily.
"Mom, Dad? Are you okay?" Sue asked worried.
"Better now." Her Dad said, a man that resembled her in the face. "Thought we were dead there for a minute." He eyed the bloody bandage over his whole chest now. "Shit, that hurts."
"It's healing already, by tomorrow you will be fine." Dean said coming forward. "There's stuff you need to know, and stuff you need to tell us. We need to talk."
"Yeah, we should. Starting with…who are you?" The man said and motioned her up with them. The girl joined them on the bed while Dean and Sam sat on the other.
They talked for hours but finally got it done.
"They couldn't keep their Data. It would lead to more trouble for us if they had." Sam said.
"I know, I didn't even realize he'd drugged our water until after he took us, and poisoned Janie here with the water we drank here. It only affected Weres and that was just us." The man said. "I'm Renault, by the way. Thank you for saving us…and not killing her. The heart thing wasn't her fault. Most hunters wouldn't have tried to listen to her at all."
"We're also Shapeshifters, of both varieties, and we get it. We realized she wasn't aware she was doing it, and when she mentioned the doctor, we kind of figured out he was making her do it." Dean said. He shot something in her from a small green vial. "This was in his pocket, it's labeled "Viral A." while that yellow one is labeled "Viral Sample". I assume he gave you the sample, so A must be the antidote."
"I hope so." She said then passed out, but before her folks could try to kill him, she woke up and smiled. "I don't feel different."
"The moon's out and full, so I assume you are all non-lunar. But you were shifted when you took the hearts…and you aren't now. So I think it's safe to assume you're cured." Sam pointed out. "It was the antidote after all."
"I'm glad. I still don't remember eating the hearts or shifting…but it must be true. You are hunters and it must have brought you here…something did. So, thank you." Sue said and sat with them again now. "Where do we go now?"
"I know a Pack near Butte, Montana. The Alpha is an ex-hunter like us, but not a shifter; just a non-lunar wolf like you. They all are in his Pack. Grim will welcome you." Dean said and they looked relieved. "You don't crave blood or anything?"
"No, I'm normal again…feel the same really." Sue said with a shrug.
"Good, sleep now. You can have that bed. Sam and I will take this one. We'll leave in the morning." Dean said and they settled in to sleep.
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Dr. Simons passed his fifth motel and groaned. He had no idea what car they were driving. He'd seen their faces but without them being outside, he couldn't find them. This was bad. His boss would not be happy.
Investigate the Supernatural had seemed simple enough, but had proven to be so simple after all. Much to Mr. Black's annoyance.
Werewolves, there were werewolves. But not a shred of proof to back it up. What made them that way was gone now, they'd almost cracked their DNA code then this happened…damn it! Mr. Black was going to be so pissed. Now he'd lost them and their beacons weren't working…he was going to get fired.
And he kept trying to find them.
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At the second motel, they woke up finally and felt blood on their necks. Sue's too. They were examining some small bloody objects at the table so the family went to see what they were doing. They were little computer chips, but they were blinking, kind of. They were dimly blinking. Almost out as they blinked slower and slower.
"They were in your necks, I smelled them. So we cut them out and it appears that if you hit this blue spot on them…it deactivates them. They put a GPS on you guys…weird." Sam said as he prodded his. "Pretty sophisticated though."
"That blinking isn't them working?" Janie said and eyed the light as it went out now.
"No, that was a standby thing I think." Sam said. "It was green before, so…"
"Well, that's true." Janie agreed, it made sense. They had inadvertently turned them off so now they were fine, nothing would find them again.
"We should go." Dean said as he tossed the chips into a small candle light, causing them to hiss and melt, popping plastic out at them. Moments later, they were packed and the candle went with them. Their chests were fine and they were healed completely. "You have a car?" He asked them.
"Yeah, at the campgrounds nearby. We could stop and get it." The man suggested.
"Fine, we go with you and get it, in case they are watching it." Dean said.
"Okay." Sue said and they headed to the campground, looking around while they parked a few feet away in a blind spot of the cameras when they spotted it.
Dean started it and drove to the blind spot, where the people got in and drove out ahead of them with Grim's address. "Go there, he'll be expecting you." Dean said after they hugged him gratefully. "It wasn't anything more than we weren't supposed to do. We're hunters, we save people, so we saved you. We're just glad it worked out so well this time, it usually doesn't where wolves are concerned."
"Only because you cared to look past the whole 'all werewolves are evil' thing most hunters have." Renault said bitterly.
Dean had to agree that most hunters were like that but not them. "We're shifters so that applies to us, too. Many would hunt us, too." He sighed. "But not all, some are very understanding, and human. Grim knows what we are. But others don't…you can't tell them."
"We'll keep it to ourselves, I promise." Renault said then drove off toward the freeway.
The boys drove home the other way, and arrived a week later, eager to see their family again. And happy they were able to save Sue's for her. It would have been hard killing them if they had to, they weren't evil like some of the others. And while she had ate hearts, she didn't recall it and so she wouldn't crave human blood at all. Werewolves, the good ones, stayed away because of that. And they were sure Grim would like the family. He'd said they were welcome and to send them. So they had.
Now if they could get back in time to spend more time with their sons and stay there for longer, well, that would be great, too.
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They enjoyed a couple days of just being couples then, letting Jodi have them for the week to make up for taking them so early on her the last time and she told them she was grateful for that. She was lonely and wanted kids, and theirs were just substitutes for what she really needed. They knew this and were glad to let them be. Jodi needed this, so they would share this with her. But they also knew she loved those kids as her nieces and nephews, by adoption of course. She was their friend and they were willing to do what they could to help her deal with this. Having the kids around had brought up memories of losing her own son, and she was in pain. They had listened to her when she'd finally opened up to them and knew her pain, but she had said that having the boys around made it easier to adjust to. Having them to love and to have them love her was helping heal her heart, which she needed. So they let their sons do that.
Their parents were working on the cars and she could barely see their blurs as they rushed from her car, the door open on its hinges the only sign they'd even been there in the first place. Their two men knelt down and swooped up the children as they barreled into them and laughed at something they said, and headed over to see her.
"Thanks for watching them." Sam said and hugged Remmie on one arm while he talked to her.
"Mom! We saw a guy in a bunny suit and he was drinking this thing out of a bag…she said to not stare and then pulled us away. We were at the mall and we got to play in the Kid area, and there was this little girl who was totally hitting on Rommie…and she spit cookie up on him. Her mom took her away after that. Then we got some new toys! She got me a motor boat for the bath and it actually makes noises. Rommie got a motorcycle, it revs when he runs it on the carpet…we traded toys after that and back again, we shared…anyway…" Remmie chattered on and they listened to his animated narrative of his adventures in 'Jodi' land, as they both fondly called it.
Rommie and Dean had come up and listened, and soon both kids were chattering a mile a minute as they both narrated and their audience went inside to sit comfortably until they finished. Jodi ran out and got their things, situatign them by the door when she went to join them soon after.
When they finished up, the men knew it was time. "We're having a meeting in a couple days, we want you and the others there. We'd like to discuss something with you guys, it's important. Can you make it?" Dean asked.
"Sure, it's after six though, I work until then, and my shift isn't over until my cover comes, and he's usually late, so six is when I usually get off work." Jodi said and waited to see.
"It's fine, we're doing it that night so it should work out. The others are coming later, too, and we need to get the kids to bed by nine but it shouldn't run that late, or they can stay up later, have a slumber party. Lee's family is coming, including Julia, so they'll have a playmate. And you did say you were off the next day, right?" Dean said uncertainly.
They were still coordinating the arrivals of their visitors so some slack in the time frame was called for and it might run late, if they decided to take them up on the offer they had for them. It wasn't an easy topic to bring up, losing your humanity. They knew they might say no, they just wanted to offer them a chance to stay with them longer, stay with their family longer than a human life span would allow.
"Yeah, I'll be fine with that time. We eating there or not?" Jodi said going to hug the boys goodbye. "I'll see you later, Remmie, Rommie. It was nice having you visit. Thanks for letting them stay longer this time, guys."
"No problem, we owed you one." Sam said and put the boy on his lap down. "Go brush your teeth, Rem, it's late. Bed time."
"Will you read to us?" Rommie asked as Dean did the same.
"Sure, what do you want to hear?" Dean asked and they exchanged glances. The parents eyed them suspiciously. The kids ran to Bobby's office and came back with a book that they knew on sight. "This one?"
It was 'Atlantis: people, places, and things'. They loved those tales and they were shorter than the last one, which had been in latin. And Dean had struggled with the language throughout his entire reading of the Mayan life one. They had loved it, he had to spend hours untying his tongue afterward.
Dean hated Latin, it hurt his tongue to speak it…and his head to read and translate it just as much. Sam, being the apt pupil he'd been, spoke it and read it fluently, the little kiss up…Dean groaned and realized this one was in Old English, the one with the 'E's at the end of every other damn word, and the many new and interesting ways of spelling them, too. He was going to love this one…yeah, it was just as bad as the latin text…he sighed but agreed to do it.
Sam took it from him and kissed him happily. "I'll take this one." Dean looked at him gratefully. "I know other languages are harder for you, baby. I just got a knack at them, but it's okay. The next normal English one is all yours."
"Thanks, I hate Old English, it's so hard to decipher…" Dean said quietly, so he didn't offend the boys who eyed them anxiously, worried he wouldn't read them the book after all.
"Just remember…the end 'E' is silent and to sound out the words in your head…that's all there is to it." Sam said teasing him.
"Nah, too much work…I'll let my genius Mate deal with the languages, I'll stick to my basic English." Dean said and chuckled. "Mom, I think they're ready for you…" He hinted and pointed up. Two little wet tousled heads peered down at them from the banister bars, grinning.
"We're ready, Mommy. Daddy, come tuck us in, please?" Rommie asked and Dean nodded. Then they got them to bed and read them a story from the book, their eyes wide as they read about the Leviathan and the things he supposedly did. "Is that true? Did they do that, Mom?" He asked Sam.
"I don't know…it's a legend, and while some legends are based on real things or people, I don't know what it could be based on. As far as I know there hasn't been any evidence of a Leviathan ever existing or Atlantis. There are giant squids but the book describes it as bigger than that, more like a sea monster. Although back then, it could have been seen as one…come to think of it, based on its size. You should look it up tomorrow, research it." Sam suggested and they nodded eagerly, eyes bright with curiosity.
"Can we use the laptop you gave us, Mom, to do it?" Remmie asked and Sam looked at Dean.
"Sure, just get an adult to supervise you, in case you need help. And save what you learn, so we can read together later…or to refer to later, okay? So we can see what you found out and you can show us for yourselves…we'd like that." Sam told him and hugged him. "However, it's time for bed now, so go to sleep."
"Water, I'm thirsty." Remmie said slyly.
"Here, have this." Dean said and gave them sips of a cup of water.
"Potty!" Rommie tried.
"You just went, son. No." Sam said and they drooped in surrender then perked up.
"Hugs?" They asked excitedly. "Kisses?"
"Sure." Their parents said and gave them one more each. "Now sleep."
The boys eyes anxiously slid to their bedroom door and got tense. "Can you shut the closet door? I don't think I need that night light after all…" Remmie said quietly, his voice trembling, tears in his eyes, afraid.
"Sure." Dean said suspiciously. "You okay, son?" He smoothed a hand over his forehead and the boy shook his head.
"I'm fine, Daddy…just, could you block the door with a chair for us? Just in case…" Remmie asked, not wanting to admit he was afraid of a closet monster; he was not a baby!
"You sure nothing's wrong?" Dean asked again.
"Yes, Daddy." Remmie lied and turned over.
And when his parents exchanged worried glances but did as he asked, then left with the door ajar for them so the hall light peered in the doorway, leaving a line of light to comfort them if needed. They didn't buy his lie for a minute but promised to talk to him later.
The boy was terrified and they wanted to know why. They both were.
And if something was fucking with their kids…they were going to kill it and make it pay for putting that fear into their son's eyes. He had no need to be afraid yet, he had plenty of time to learn that later.
Then as the first sense of being watched, despite their door being blocked, Remmie cried softly and fled to his brother's bed and clung to him, eyes locked on the closed door. "Rommie, it won't get me, will it?"
"No, baby bro, I won't let it." Rommie said and fingered the demon knife he'd swiped earlier from Bobby's drawer of his desk. "Sleep, baby. I got this." Then as his brother slept wrapped around him and eventually stopped trembling, relaxing into a peaceful sleep soon after that, the boy stayed awake and eyed the door with hard eyes and told it. "Touch my Mate, you son of a bitch, and I will end you!"
And he smiled as he scented fear at his words. But stayed away anyway to be sure it got the point. He'd seen it, too, and while still afraid as his brother, he wasn't so afraid that it would paralyze him the way it had Remmie. He'd just kill it for doing this to them if it tried anything.
He'd protect his Mate; that was his job after all. He kissed Remmie's snuggling head and the boy settled again, going still again, and hugging him. He knew just what they were and didn't mind waiting for Remmie to feel the same, a small love growing in his little chest, a protectiveness he hadn't known before taking him again. He'd watch over his baby brother, only by seconds but still, he was the baby one.
And he'd marry that boy someday, and mate with him. But for now, he was content to hold and protect him instead. And knowing that thing with the gold eyes was watching them still made him vigilant enough to do it the rest of the night.
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They all sat in the living room for the family meeting, everyone was there. Even Cheryl and her family, all of them. Lee and Lenore sat on the couch with Bobby and Ellen. Jo, Jodi, Ash, Dante, Dorian, Abby and her husband as well. Doc was there also.
"First, we have some things to mention. The boys want to know why we don't take more than surface thoughts…and you others have expressed questions about that as well. So we want to explain that. We…fucked up when we did that. And we need to confess what we did. We've never told anyone what we did, we are too ashamed. But they need to know, as do you all. And we have an offer for you." Sam said taking a seat as well, Dean beside him equally upset and concerned.
"What offer?" Bobby said speaking up for the group.
"We, the kids and us, have been discussing mortality…yours as a matter of fact." Dean said then took breath and pushed on. "We don't want to be stuck here eventually, all alone and mourning you. Which is what happens with humans." He said then shrugged. "We read the journal and it says we can make others of our kind by sharing blood with you…and we'd like to offer that to you now. You'd be shifters like us, look human but not be, and we understand if you find that offensive but…you would only shift when you wanted to, with some training of course, and you would be superhuman, but you'll feel human anyway, we do and so will you. We promised our sons we'd ask you. Dorian and Dante are immune to it but not you guys. What do you say?"
"You mean you'd turn us?" Jodi asked then looked at Dorian and Dante. "We'll be like you guys? Why couldn't we be like them?" She pointed to Dante and Dorian now. Eyes curious and interested.
"Us?" Dorian and Dante asked in surprise.
"Yes, a Pheonix or Dhampyre." Jodi said clarifying. "Can we do that?"
"Well, it's up to them really." Dean said, he hadn't considered that as a possibility. But if his cousins would do it, why not try it? "Guys?"
"I'd do it." Dante said. "It would be nice not to be last of my kind."
"Me, too, I'm one of the last, too. I'd turn you." Dorian agreed.
"Hell, I want to be like my godsons." Lee said smiling as they climbed onto his lap to hug him. "I could shift with them then, play with them in another form that could be fun!"
"Me, too." Lenore said from beside her lover.
"Me, too." Both Bobby and Ellen said.
"I'd do the Pheonix thing." Jodi said. Lonnie gave her an interested look…again. He was always flirting with her. Jodi thought and got the warm feeling in her chest again. Yeah, she liked the hunky hunter, but decided to let him stew some more. Just to be sure he really liked her…plus she liked making him wait for her. He suspected she liked him but she wasn't giving him the satisfaction of verifying it was true yet.
But someday she might. Just not right yet.
"Pheonix works for me." Lonnie said and his daughter, Julia, the little girl they'd saved, shook her head.
"I want to be like my cousins." She said pointing to the twins, who smiled happily at her. "I want to shift with them!"
"Shifter." Thom said and smiled. "Might cure my cancer, who knows? Not dying by the day might be nice for once!"
Jo and Ash both chose shifter as well, to be more like her brothers as well.
Cheryl and Dan both agreed that Dhampyre was a good choice for them. Vampiric or not, Dorian functioned normally enough, they wanted to be like her if given a choice.
"Shifter." Abby said. But her husband shook his head.
"Pheonix." James, her husband, said.
"Gonna be interesting babies." Dean said with a laugh and they chuckled, knowing it was true.
"Shifter." Doc said then shrugged. "I like you guys, so shifter it is."
"Look, for the shifters, you should know that you will be Uber-fertile when you change. First you will change in body, then you will love bond…once that happens, whoever is on the bottom carries the children from that encounter. You will conceive if you do the love bond. The love bond requires you complete it with…fluids in each other, yes, each other. Women, not so much. Man on man, yeah. The love bond gives you all your powers you need to balance out the shifting abilities. So you have to do it." Dean said. "A few more like our sons won't be so bad, trust me."
"Will it always be twins and will they always be born mated pairs, like you and folks were?" Lenore asked, eying the kids.
"Yes, we are always born in pairs. And to be mated later. It's how shifters are born. We are born mated to our twins. Not related exactly." Sam reassured her. "Yes, our sons are a mated pair, but for later. For now they are brothers…and until that changes, they will remain that way. When they feel more, they can mate." He said then shrugged. "Incest is a human taboo, not a supernatural one. It's not incest if you are born to be mated…just if you are born that way as a human."
"I can live with that." Lenore said. "So…when do we do it?"
"We can do the shifter thing tonight." Sam said. "Dante, Dorian?"
"I'd do it tonight, too." Dorian said.
"I need a day, I have to find some of my pheonixes willing to join with humans. They usually won't but sometimes they will if they like you." Dante said. "I'll find some willing to meet you and see if they want to join, and you can join with them. You must be compatible, you see."
"Works for me." was the general consensus.
"Okay, shifters…stay here, grab some blankets to lay on, you will pass out for a bit from the change. Not for long then you must bond if you're going to. Also, you can change your appearance at will as shifters, so you can add something, go blonde, change your face or body, height, it's all changeable, trust me, become anyone you want, or just clear off a few wrinkles, anything works…so if others see you not aging, and you won't age once changed, trust me on that…we haven't and never will again…you can add a wrinkle or gray hair, or whatever changes you need to make if you want to fix it so you seem to be aging right so they won't notice. I know some of you might find that necessary, that's why I said something." Dean pointed out and they all agreed they'd do that.
"Kids, to your rooms…just stay in there, and no 'Bloody Mary' in this house…she's real and we know not to, right?!" Dean growled, both boys nodded and looked afraid. "I know that sounds mean but she's real and we don't want her to hurt you guys, okay?"
"Yes, sir. No calling on her, I promise." Rommie said eyes solemn. "Did she really try to kill you, Mom?"
"Yes, and she killed a lot of others, too. Just don't even say her name and stay away from mirrors if you even think it, and we'll all be safe. Bloody Mary isn't a joke or a game to play. She kills people and we don't want her to get you guys, sorry if we scared you." Sam said as gently as he could.
"Yes, sir." They said and headed up, knowing that was one game they were not going to ever do. If their parents said it was real, it was real. They were hunters after all and they would know.
"How about Candyman?" Rommie asked peeking down at them.
"No mirror games, we suspect he's a demon trapped in a mirror like Bloody Mary, he kills, too. So no summoning anything from mirrors, understand?" Dean said sternly.
"No mirrors, got it." The boy said going pale and running to catch up with his brother.
"Dorian?" Dean asked.
"My room." Dorian said and thought about it. "Won't take long, you should turn in minutes really…I'm only adding some vampire to your humanity for you. Adding some other abilities but other than that, it won't hurt and should go fast." She thought then added. "And not to be pushy, but you two should consider mating with each other, you would be a perfect fit."
"But we're related." Cheryl objected.
"Half related." Dorian parried and smiled. "And once you go Dhampyre, you won't be related at all, so that won't be an issue."
"Why not?" Dan asked curious.
"Dhampyres, even when we retain the humanity, our bodies are no longer human, so we aren't really human at all." Dorian said. "So you aren't related if you aren't human, are you? That's how we supernatural beings see it, anyway."
"Oh, yeah, we'll talk about it then." Cheryl said then considered it while looking at Dan. "I like him enough, I suppose."
"Me, too." Dan said reluctantly.
Then they got ready to turn those that chose to be like them.
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First they found some mugs and cut themselves, bleeding in the cups and getting them settled onto the blankets. Then the others drank it and the shifters bled some more and their loved ones drank that, three cups later, the others felt funny and laid down. They soon seized then arched up, then lay down and slept for few minutes. In the meantime, they seemed to change appearance somewhat. Getting bigger and muscled, taller for some, not getting taller in others. All were around six feet to seven feet tall now though. The older ones de-aged some, a few years for most, a lot for Thom. He was closer to thirty now but stuck that way. The younger ones tended to stay the same. Ellen de-aged slightly but Bobby took off nearly twenty years. Doc de-aged a few years as well.
The little girl just shook, arched, then slept, and they let her, knowing she was too young to be mated yet. Her full powers should wake up on their own later, like theirs had. The others were already grown up, so they needed the love bond. The younger you turned, the less the love bond was called for you to get your abilities. It would be like you born with them then, not turned at all. The older ones would not be so lucky.
"Did it work?" Dean whispered to Sam, worried when they didn't wake up after an hour. "The book said it only took about an hour… they should be awake by now."
"Let's try to wake them up then." Sam said worried as well and soon they were shaking and nudging them awake, and found their eyes gold like theirs then dim to their normal colors again. "You need to love bond now." He said.
"In front of everyone?" Bobby said blushing.
"Yes, so we can supervise in case a form change happens. The book says it's possible and could hinder the bonding at first. We are doing this the way the book says to. It says its best to supervise all aspects of the turning, that includes the love bonding." Dean said then pointed. "Remember, bottom has the baby."
"Baby?" Lenore said nervously.
"Yes, get pregnant now and then get fixed soon, so the other shifters will leave you alone…we're a different breed of shifters, as you recall, and they would love to force us to have their kids or get our DNA joined with theirs. If we're fixed, they can smell it and leave us alone." Dean pointed out. "And you need to cum in the person for the bond to kick in, along with the powers you need, so…yeah…you have babies at first. Sam did, so you will, too."
"I'm single, though." Doc said.
"Well, um, you aren't attracted to anyone?" Dean asked.
"No." Doc said. "But a baby might be nice. One of yours would be fine, not to mate to you entirely, but a love bond with you would work." Then saw their looks, and realized he would never love anyone as deeply as them if he did love bond to them but could find a mate he could love anyway, maybe not as much as he could, nor could he really love bond to them, but he could love and be with his own Mate someday, more or less. "Yeah, I'd do that." Doc said and Dean whispered to Sam for a bit then nodded.
"Not permanently mating with us?" Dean said uncertainly. "Just so you can be bonded…you can find mates later?"
"Later, yes, not mates right now, though we will be in a way. Don't want to live or be with you forever…just want the full powers, and the baby if we have to have one." Doc agreed.
"Fine, who do you want?" Dean said and undressed, Sam as well, the others doing the same and pairing up already.
"Both of you." Doc said, liking the idea of them both taking him already and hardening at the thought.
"Just this once, promise?" Dean hesitated, "This isn't cheating if we agree to do it together, I don't want to cheat on Sam or him on me…not if we are only doing to help you get your powers…and only do it once."
"Just once, and it's done. I keep my babies though." Doc said. "They'll live me at my own home."
"Yes, you do and they will." Dean said then sighed, going to Doc first, Sam following him. "Lay back, baby. You ever done this before…with a guy I mean?" He asked biting a lip.
"Once, in college. It was fun but I liked women more." Doc admitted. "Like men, too, but you'd be my first in a long time."
"I'll be gentle, I promise." Dean said. Sam going to the upper part of his body to stroke his dick as they talked. He'd suck him while Dean made love to him first, then they'd switch up, so Doc could enjoy it more. Just this one time.
"Gentle then rough." Doc said.
"Fine, we'll do it your way." Dean agreed then kissed down his body with Sam doing the same. The men doing it to their women as well. Then working fingers in with lube and then his dick, slowly working in then moving.
Sounds of pleasure and sex filled the air downstairs then, and for most the night.
Upstairs it was much the same as well.
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Dante conversed with his other Pheonixes while they did this and found a few willing to meet with the people for a possible merging. Then decided to wait until they got there to do it. The next night would be fine.
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Dorian drank from Cheryl and held it in her mouth, then bit a wrist and added some of her own blood to it. Then kissed her mouth open and poured it in. then bit her four times on the thigh, to hide the bites better. They would show for the rest of her life so they would need hidden. Then Cheryl felt dizzy and high, and lay down to recover and change.
Then she did the same with Dan and let him lay down as well.
And left the room for them to mate if they chose to once they recovered. Knowing desire would be the next emotion they felt and it would be overwhelming; it always was when you changed. There was reason most Dhampyres were sluts…the need for sex was an overwhelming one from the moment they turned. Their desires hardly ever quenched until they found their true mate, then it toned down to a normal more manageable rate.
She prayed they'd mate, or they'd put bunnies to shame later.
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Dan reached for her first, softly stroking her cheek while need thrummed through him for her. Her eyes turned to meet his, showing her need as well and their lips joined in a gasp, letting their bodies answer to the call of that need.
"Mate to me…" Dan pleaded as he entered her folds, wet and ready for him.
"Yes." Cheryl said arching in pleasure as he thrust in. "More…" She sighed happily and moaned his name…"Dan…Dan!"
"Mine!" Dan growled possessively as he moved in her now and gloried in their mating now. "I love you." He said gently though, reaching to kiss her once more, hunger in his lips.
"I love you, too…I'm yours, you're mine!" Cheryl cried out and raked her nails down his back as he thrust into harder now. "Never leave me!"
"Never." Dan promised as their lips joined and their orgasms bubbled inside them already. Then they came and did it all again, finding their need for each other growing with every kiss, touch, and thrust, and knowing they wanted this more than anything between them now. "I'm moving in with you now, baby. Live with me?"
"Yes, with you." Cheryl agreed smiling and pushed her body back onto him again…"Fuck me, baby, take me again…" She begged and he did as asked.
Then didn't stop until morning either.
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The next morning they found themselves swamped, and running to the store for more pregnancy tests. Abby, Ellen, Jo, Lenore, Doc, Lee (he'd asked them to love bond with Dean and Sam after they'd finished with Doc, he never wanted another mate, and he did care for them, so he figured being mated and love bonded to them would be a great idea), Thom (again, he'd asked and they'd done it for him since he had no one to do it for him, being mated to them and love bonded didn't bother him at all; they were very attractive and he wouldn't mind sex with them again on a less required basis of course than Lee wanted), and Cheryl (With Dan's Dhampyre child) were all pregnant and already forming bumps. Seven months, they knew and they would have twins. Some same sex, some opposite, either way they would be born mated pairs, and they accepted that now. They'd love them anyway.
They all felt fairly normal though and agreed though they were more muscled but not too noticeably; they looked like they had hit the gym more but that was it. And some were much younger, they could fix that with some shifter work, they were still mostly the same as before. Just better able to defend themselves. And swore to hide it like the Winchesters did.
Cheryl's and Dan's appearance was much the same way but theirs was less obvious than the other ones.
But they all agreed it wasn't so bad.
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Dante called Lonnie, Jodi, and James Larkin, Abby's hunter husband, to him. Then they all came into the living room and sat where they were told to. "No sudden movements, they are here and you can't see them, but I have several Pheonixes to meet you. Just talk to them, and I'll tell you what they said in return. Start now."
"Hi, I'm Jodi Mills, I'm the sheriff here in town, I help them from time to time…uh, I feel something…" She gasped as a hot touch brushed her cheek but she stayed still and it stayed, she eyed Dante though, who appeared to be listening to something, then nodding.
"She says she likes you. You have a good heart, like me. She wants to join with you…wow that was quick. Okay, you guys?" He said then eyed Jodi. "Just close your eyes and relax, open your body and soul to her, she'd merge with you that way. Let her do the work, Jodi."
"I will." Jodi said and her eyes slid shut, and she felt like she was pressed against a hot stove. Then she was the stove and burning but stayed still as she could anyway. It didn't hurt, per se…but it was really hot! Then she felt cooler and a hand touched her face. She saw it was Dante and he smiled down at her.
"It's done, you are a Pheonix now. I'll have to train you but you should be fine for now. Read this." He presented her with a book, a notebook really. "I wrote all about Pheonixes in there and what to expect now that you are one. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me them. That is yours now, guard it well."
He smiled as James looked up in wonder as well, a quiet sigh on his lips. "The pheonix says he likes you, you are a good man, too. He asks permission to merge with you, James." Dante said.
"He has it. I will merge with you, sir." James said and closed his eyes and opened himself to it. He soon glowed and shown as fire form with wings flowing behind him as his own Pheonix merged with him, gasping at the heat as it filled him now then relaxed as it cooled quickly and bonded to his soul and body's cells as Jodi's had with her. He too got a notebook and the warning.
Lonnie got his soon after, allowing it to merge with him completely as well. Taking his notebook afterward and feeling better, hotter but better.
"You will all have higher than normal temperatures now, not 90 something anymore. You will maintain a 106 degree or higher body temp now. So watch with the touching of humans, they may notice. If they do, say you have a slight fever because you're recovering from a cold or something; that usually pacifies them pretty good." Dante said. "We will do the training soon, so don't use the powers yet. Now let's go back and see what Dean has to say about the memories and shifting issue, I'm kind of curious what he's talking about, too. Him and Sam are the only ones I ever heard of that won't take deeper memories…most shifters delve deep without worrying about it like they do."
"They are different than other shifters, so that might be a part of it." Jodi said uncertainly.
"That's not it…they usually tell us everything…but they've never told anyone this. I wonder why." Dante said, mostly to himself and they knew it.
Then headed down to listen.
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Dean had one boy on his lap, Sam had one on his, both were suddenly Asian boys but no one said anything. They realized that they must be practicing their shifting again so they let it be. They'd learned to not be shocked by their changing appearances by now. And once their babies were born, they should know what to do when theirs did the same thing, too. So they listened.
"We have to make them stay in one form for now, no changing multiple times yet while in mid-shift, we can do it but they can't yet, they just don't have the control over their powers and bodies yet that we do. Their powers won't be able handle it this soon, that comes with experience and practice, lots and lots of practice. They'll go insane with the power if they rush it. The deeper memories, they…well, are addictive. They tend to take us over. Like reading a really good book and getting lost in it. That's what the others do and that's why they go evil. That and I want to start them slow on the memory downloading, only surface stuff, so they can adapt to their new forms to who they are pretending to be but that's it; they won't actually become them. " Sam finally said. "We only take surface thoughts because they are all we really need but the others, they get greedy. Take too much and find themselves becoming the other person…we don't go that far…we won't lose ourselves that way. We don't turn into people unless we have to and mostly bad ones to infiltrate. We stay away from doing that to good people." Dean adds. "We prefer doing the animal forms but the human ones work on cases like we did when we saved Lonnie's girl. Only the barest of memories is all we use, no more no less, and only if we have to. We sometimes just take forms without downloading, to avoid that. We have to shake off the other person's thoughts afterward but it's easier and faster to do if there isn't much there to shake off. We like being us so we hate lose that, so we won't let ourselves get immersed in others memories the way the bad ones do." He shrugs. "It gets too…addictive and power trippy. We want them to learn to avoid it, too. You have no idea how seductive it is to just let yourself go and …become that other person…I…we….we can't let ourselves go that far…once was enough."
"What do you mean, once was enough? You've done it before?" Lonnie said and they nodded.
"Yes, we did." Dean said softly, taking up where Sam left off. "We were on one of our first cases, a missing guy. A vamp had taken him. So we…shifted and took on a vamp form…yeah, we can do that but only briefly…wolves or vamp forms don't last long; they fade faster on us, minutes at most. So anyway, we were downloading and went too deep, took too much." Dean looked away in shame. "Almost sucked the guy dry before we remembered we weren't really the vamps we were shifted into and that was only because our forms had faded away! We nearly killed him from blood loss…and swore not do that ever again. We even took a good man's form once and then…we became him and his brother, they were being targeted by a Wraith, and we took their forms to save them to begin with… And it was Sam that pulled me back and me that pulled him back. It was like living a fantasy and we lost ourselves for days. It was like a fog…it swallowed us…and when I saw Sam nearly die as the Wraith went after him, I realized we'd gone too far and then had to kill it like only I knew how to, not the person I was pretending to be. That guy would have let Sam die and that's when I realized we'd gone too far. Sam knew how to fight it, could kill it easily. But, as that other guy? He was defenseless and he would have let the thing kill him; he was terrified and…like a normal guy who'd never seen a supernatural thing try to kill him before in his life."
"I see why you'd avoid it." Lee said.
"Yeah, almost losing your only brother has a tendency to do that. I don't want them to know that pain so…we want to train them not do that. But to know the risks of why they shouldn't. No one told us why we shouldn't, just that we shouldn't. So we had to find it out the hard way for ourselves. If we'd known why, we never would have done it. They will know why and know better than to do it." Dean said sadly. "It only takes letting yourself slip once and then…it would be too late. It would never bring his brother back to be sorry…he could never be sorry enough for that to happen ever again." Dean shrugged. "I don't ever want them to know that feeling."
"They won't, we won't let them. You train them right. I don't want to lose my kids over stupid shit! Not to hunting, not again. Never again. They won't be defenseless like my family was and they will be ready like you were, hunters like us. We may die from it but we damn sure die fighting…not like lambs too damn scared or untrained to defend ourselves, like those we lose do. They will be able to do what you do, what we do. We'll teach them all we know and then every damn thing that is in that journal, and then more as we go. But love them, too, and let them be kids in between. We protect them, love them, and, more than anything, we do the right thing this time." Lee said adamantly, meaning every word.
"Your kids?" Dean teased, liking how he loved them that much already, thought of them as his now, too.
"My kids, my babies and I need you to know I'm with you all the way, with them." Lee said.
"Boys, shift. Animal forms this time." Sam instructed and smiled, "We have to go play with them for now, but feel free to do whatever you need to now. We just wanted to explain why going to deep in the memories is wrong for us. See you later." And with that he and Dean changed as well, easily becoming forms to suit their sons' animal forms as well, a black lab and a German Shepherd, bigger ones than usual, with a pup of each breed running behind them to bite their tails playfully.
Bobby just chuckled and told them that was them in dog form. The lab now gave him a smug grin and panted, smiling. Distinctly Dean-like. The German Shepherd rolled his eyes but gave small smile and Lee thought it looks like Sam when it did that. Now he can tell them apart. The little pups were about 2 months old as puppies go, and the pups soon began running around the room, greeting everyone. Yipping and grinning happily, green-hazel eyes smiling. Lee picked up one and tried not to drop him as he tried to hold other one, too. Bobby picked up the other one from him then and helped him hold them better. Both pups now climbed up his chest and licked his face, he laughed. "Hi, boys. You sure make cute pups!" He said and smiled.
Then wondered when they became kids again. His look must have spoken for him because Bobby spoke up and answered his unspoken question. "Like we said, they have to be in this form for an hour or two, to make sure they and their bodies get used to shifting." Bobby explained.
Soon the pups went out to play with their parents and the others that had shifted to play with them as well. Then eventually came in to lay on a pallet nearby they'd made for them that morning and went human and slept. They all sat and let them cuddle against each other while they talked then. Little faces smiling and lost in sleep now. Soon enough their parents and those that had changed took human form again and dressed nearby in private, then sat by them to watch over them as they rested. Sam just smiled as Remus shifted into a puppy again in his sleep and Romulus did it moments later, this time reversing breeds, amusingly enough. They were dreaming of their shifting and it had caused them to shift in their sleep outwardly. "This happen often?" Lee said petting the sleeping pups lovingly now as they curled up around each other more. "They really are cute pups…" He said softly to himself.
"They are." Sam agreed, stealing a pet, too. "We don't lose ourselves in animal form, since we aren't animals. It doesn't require downloading anything, just an image of what we want to be. We stay ourselves in there. That's the reason we prefer animal shifting but, with humans and others, its more…complicated." He nodded to them again. "They will do this for a few months until they are nearly eight or nine in human years. They age faster than human kids do. They will be a year at six months old and so on. In four years, a little less maybe, they will be in control of their shifting abilities enough to seriously start training them to hunt. We'll start small now then more later but not push them too hard. Bobby taught us that." Sam looked at Bobby fondly. "He took his time, showed us the worse stuff later. He let us learn at our pace and didn't push us where we weren't ready to. And never failed to show he loved us enough to not make us hunt if we didn't want to. Even if we had no choice. Like they don't…not really. We aren't human, not even a little bit. We are the hunted, and we always need to remember that. Or it will kill us. Our greatest protection is our ability to hide what we are and fit in with the others hunters. They don't hunt us because they trust us and consider us one of them. So they will be using that advantage. The less they know about our shifting, and what we are, the better off we all will be."
"Then we'll hide it, and protect each other." Bobby agreed.
Then later that afternoon, the pups stirred and yawned cutely, seeing the house was empty and ran out to explore outside. Forgetting of course they were buck naked. Then proceeded to find the muddiest puddle in the yard and all of a sudden their parents were more than grateful they had chosen to stay naked. They'd be much easier to clean that way, and there would be much less laundry to wash this way. "See they found the mud lake we used to play in…" Sam drawled. "That thing is deep enough to swim in now, isn't it?"
He teased Bobby with this, knowing he'd done the same thing as a boy with Dean and Bobby nodded. "About that." Bobby agreed and laughed as mud hit Sam square in the face right then. "They are your sons, you deal with it."
"Oh, I will." Sam growled playfully and turning into a water moccasin and sprang into the puddle, proceeding to crawl all over them and making them squeal even louder with joy as he did it.
"Mom!" They screamed at him and he kept doing it, shifting into a piglet and oinking at them, them doing the same thing and joining him in playing with the mud that way, too. For a couple hours they played that way, Dean eventually going piglet, too, and playing as well with his sons.
The others found it fun as well, and soon his lake of mud was full of shifters in piglet form, for two hours. Dante just groaned and went to get the towels and hose ready. They were going to need it. And apparently going shifter had made them all a little insane at the moment…ugh. He thought then waited for them change back.
Then the piglets turned into naked kids and they laughed as their naked butts ran into the house, ignoring the hose and towels entirely. Sam and Dean quickly took human forms and let him spray them off and took a towel each to dry off on. Then dressed again and ran after them, knowing they were going to slippery little things when they caught them. Then chuckled when they realized it was time for their baths anyway, this just saved a step really. At least one of them. Now they just had to chase them down and, trust them to be fast, shifter speed was a bitch! Thank goodness their parents were shifters, too, or they'd never get them in that tub!
Bedtime was fairly sedate though, they'd exhausted the kids, a rare thing really.
"Mom, Dad, are we going to be able to shift like you someday? You shift so fast!" Remus, Remmie, said in awe. His little eyes anxious, lips pursed nervously. Their change was slow but their parents was so fast, a blink of the eye and they were in a new form!
"Yes, once you learn to control it better. We need you start slow, so you are fine with the way you are. You can shift between forms later." Sam reassured his son and tucked him in, turning on his nightlight. "Still scared of the dark?"
"Yeah…dreamt of that closet monster again…" Remmie said, eyes shooting to the padlocked closet. Bobby and them had fixed that monster for him, he was glad to see. "He can't get through that lock, can he?"
"We got him already…no monster would dare come after our sons, not here at Bobby's." Sam reassured the boy and hugged him. "There is no monster in there. You'd smell him. He'd smell like a stinky, burny smell. It would burn your nose. You'd know if there was a monster in it."
"But there was a monster!" Remmie cried now. "I'm not lying. And I did smell the burning…no one believed me though…"
"I believe you." Sam said and motioned Dean over. "What did he look like?" He asked gently.
"He was tall, and all shadowy. But…his eyes, they scared me." Remmie said creeping under his covers and eyes flicking to the closet again, fear in them.
"Why, what was wrong with his eyes?" Dean asked as fear entered his heart as well.
"They were yellow and shiny; they glowed." Remmie said quietly. "He looked right at me, Daddy!"
"Did he say anything?" Dean said and hated the thought of a demon finding his son. Not another yellow eyed son of a bitch, fuck that!
"No, he just stared." Remmie said. "Then I called for you and when I turned to look at him again…he was gone…you had scared him away. I've been seeing him for a couple weeks now, thought it was just bad dreams…I'm not crazy! Rommie saw him, too…that's how I knew it wasn't just my bad dreams. He was real! I'm not making this up!" He looked so sad and upset, and about to cry at the thought that they might not believe him. "I wouldn't lie about this…Daddy, I wouldn't!"
"I believe you, son…I know you wouldn't lie to me. And definitely not about a demon. You know better. Rommie, you did see it? It was there? Where was it in there again, to the front, side, or right at the back?" Dean asked, eyes afraid still. All their eyes shooting to the closet to see for themselves it hadn't shown up again yet, and ready to kill the thing if it had!
"Yes, he stood at the back of the closet." Rommie said quietly as well. "I looked after he called for you and I only looked away for a moment. I looked back again when you ran in…but by then he was gone."
"We'll deal with him later. We'll just have to get you someplace safe before we do…you go sleep in our room, boys. You all stay here with me; go get the Colt, Bobby. We're going to need it. No demonic bastard comes near my sons, I won't let it!" Dean said eyeing that closet and resolving to stand guard tonight. Sam nodded and showed he'd be doing to same, after telling Bobby about it. Then they got a couple suitably kid-sized bundles set up under the covers and set up the honey for their trap. They were going to show that demon what happened when you fucked with a Winchester's family. Azazel had learned that lesson well, but apparently some of the others hadn't. And they were damn well going to make sure they did this time.
They were going to deal with the bastard right now, not waiting around for it to play with them again! Fuck that! And as far as it going near their family and kids? Well, for that it deserved to die anyway…
Sometimes Dean wished the demons would learn to stay away from them, but then again….there were always some lessons that demons were too stupid to learn.
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