Chapter 11

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Dark Angel or Supernatural characters. For this fic I changed the DA time line. The pulse has already hit and Alec is out of Manticore in 2009. The characters of Lexi, Jake and Jackie are from a Supernatural AU Verse that I write. Thanks to everyone that has been reading this story and thanks for the reviews. Reviews would be great!

At 0800 Alec had volunteered himself to go down to their parents room to see if they were awake. He was hungry and he was willing to suffer Dean's wrath if it meant having hot syrupy pancakes for breakfast. He crept up to their door, his head cocked to the side as he tried to discern if they were still asleep. He backed away slightly when he heard Dean's low rumbling voice telling Lexi that the others would be back this afternoon. Alec stayed crouched where he was, he was able to eavesdrop on their conversation and had enough space from the door to be able to flee if he needed to. He then heard Lexi ask if they, the boys, were still sleeping, to which Dean responded 'Yes.' Dean said something else which caused Lexi to giggle but even with Alec's enhanced hearing he couldn't make out what had been said.

Alec nearly jumped out of his skin when he heard Dean's heavy footsteps coming towards the door. He was ready to take flight but couldn't move. Alec knew he was in deep shit with no good excuse to be lurking outside their bedroom door. He was scrambling to come up with a plausible explanation as to why he was out there when he heard Lexi tell Dean to come take a nap with her. That's when he got the idea for a mission. He listened to the lock clicking into place and Dean's heavy footfalls as he made his way back to the bed, the bed springs creaking under his weight. Alec waited a few minutes until he was sure they were both asleep before heading back up to his room.

Ben raised his eyebrow as he watched Alec enter their bedroom. He knew that look on his brother's face. That face meant trouble. His eyes were all lit up mischievously while he tried to convince Ben to go along with him. Ben knew this was going to get them in big trouble, especially since he wanted to include Jake in the hijinks, still, he felt torn. Part of him wanted to do exactly what Alec suggested but he knew it wasn't going to end well. Somehow though, he found himself swept up in Alec's enthusiasm. Ben helped get Jake fed and dressed in his snow clothes all the while trying to ignore the voice in his head telling him not to do it. Alec only had to look at Ben to know he was loosing his brother to that pesky conscience of his. He turned and looked at Ben his eyebrow raised, "We are enhanced killing machines Ben. I think we can handle watching a three year old."

"If anything happens mom's gonna kill us."

"Nothing's gonna happen to Jake. Stop being such a goody two shoes."

Ben pulled a face but said nothing in response to his brother's taunt. He reluctantly followed his brother's outside but not because Alec had called him names. He was going out there to make sure nothing happened to Jake. He might only be nine years old but he knew there'd be hell to pay if something did happen.

Ben and Alec were now crouched behind a large drift of snow with Jake. Alec spoke softly explaining their plan of attack while drawing their ambush with a stick in the snow. His companions nodded enthusiastically accepting Alec's plan without question. Alec knew this was probably not the best idea he's ever had and that he was probably gonna get into a boat load of trouble. Somehow he just didn't care. This was something he had to do. Besides, with the fresh snow on the ground how was he supposed to contain himself from throwing snowballs at his unsuspecting uncle? Really, it was just too much to ask of a nine year old.

The three boys began making their ammo stacking it in neat piles. Alec wanted to make sure they had a healthy stockpile of snowballs for when his uncle arrived home. There was no other way to do this mission without lots of ammunition. Besides, Alec knew he was gonna be in deep trouble and figured he might as well go big or go home. He really didn't want to have to stop his assault on Sammy just because they made a rookie mistake and ran out of snowballs.

An Hour Later

Lexi was jolted awake by the sound of screaming coming from outside. She sat up straight in bed, her head titled to the side trying to figure out if the screaming was real or something she had dreamed. Then she heard the screaming coming from outside again. She grabbed her robe wrapping it around herself before shoving her feet into her slippers. Dean scrubbed a hand across his face about to ask her where the fire was when he heard the screams as well. He jumped out of bed and raced down the stairs only stopping to quickly step into his work boots. He flew out the front door clad only in his work boots, t-shirt and boxer briefs with Lexi hot on his heels. They both came to a skidding halt on Bobby's front porch, their mouths opened in surprise due to the scene before them. It only took a second for Lexi to get over the shock when she saw Jake participating in the snowball fight. With her eyes hard and her cheeks full of color she yelled, "ALEC SAMUEL WINCHESTER, BENJAMIN JOHN WINCHESTER AND JACOB DEAN WINCHESTER WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING? YOU STOP AND PUT THOSE SNOWBALLS DOWN RIGHT NOW AND GET OVER HERE!"

All three boys stopped immediately, their arms frozen in mid throw. They dropped the snowballs in unison and made their way over to the porch. Jake was the only one who had the sense to look guilty giving his mother his puppy dog look but she wasn't having it. When that didn't work, he flat out tattled on his brother. "It was Alec, Mommy."

Lexi looked straight at Alec shaking her head. She should've known he was the ring leader. After all, he was the twin that was most like Dean. Plus, when there where hijinks going on it always seemed that Alec was the one to blame. She took a deep breath to calm herself before she ushered the three boys inside.

Sam brushed the snow off his jacket and pants shaking his head. He was actually kind of amused. He couldn't remember the last time he was in a honest to God snowball fight. He took off his scarf giving it a good shake as he joined his brother on the porch. He gave him a half heart-ed smile laughing, "I could've taken them."

"Uh huh. They had you cornered."

"Whatever, Dean. Did you hear it?"

"Hear what?"

"The echo in Lexi's voice. I mean come on it's obvious what happened. The way the three of them stopped immediately...the mind control's back."

Dean bit his bottom lip as he squinted up at the sky. It looked like there was another storm headed their way. It didn't surprise him. It seemed lately they've been getting caught up in a lot of storms. He really didn't feel like talking about the one concerning Lexi's abilities. He had an awesome night and for once was in a good mood. So, he decided to ignore Sam's statement. He turned to Sam with his eyebrow quirked, "I'm freezing my balls off out here. I'm going back inside."

Sam followed his brother inside fully intending to continue the conversation but the words died on his lips. He could tell just by Dean's posture that he was not going to talk about it. Sam who had a lot of experience dealing with his brother's stubbornness and selective hearing, decided, for now, it would be best to drop the subject. "I talked to Victor. He can't find anything on Lydecker either."

"Well, that's just great news Sammy."

"Dean, come on. We'll find something. We always manage to find SOMETHING. He was a friend of dad's so one of his military buddies must know Lydecker too. I'll start making calls."

Dean turned shaking his head. He didn't want to burst his brother's bubble but this was like searching for a needle in a 3,000 mile haystack. They had to be realistic. They weren't going to be the ones to find Lydecker, he was going to find them. Dean just knew they were going to be prepared for when he did. "Sammy, those leads are over twenty years old."

"So, what if they are?"

"It's a dead end Sammy and you know it."

"No! We don't know that for sure."

"Fine. You go chase down cold leads and I'll take care of the super soldiers."

The boys were listening to Sam and Dean's argument eagerly from opposite ends of the kitchen. Lexi had purposely sat them at opposite ends of the kitchen telling them they were in time out and could not move or talk to one another. Alec thought this fell under cruel and unusual punishment but one look from Ben and he shut his mouth and sat on the chair she motioned to. Ben was sitting by Bobby's row of phones while Alec was by the back door in what Lexi called the mud room. He didn't understand why he was banished to this sickly green room. Sure, he was the brains behind the snowball ambush but Ben was just as guilty in Alec's eyes. Alec was sitting there with his arms crossed and a surly look on his face when Dean walked in. He stopped in front of Alec with an identical surly look on his own face. He crossed his arms and stared at the boy. Alec began to squirm under his dad's gaze. He could always make Alec sweat. He knew he couldn't worm his way out of whatever trouble he was in when it came to Dean. Alec hated that. "How long do I have to sit here?"

"Until I say so."

"But it was just a snowball fight and in the front yard!"

"It's way more than that, kiddo. You went outside without telling us and you took Jake with you. Alec, you can't go out without telling us." Dean sighed running his hand down his face. He didn't want to be too hard on the kid but at the same time he had to make him understand the danger they're in. "It's just not Manticore that can take you. Remember how I was telling you about demons? Well, they would snap you boys up in a heartbeat. Don't think me and your mom are over reacting cuz it already happened with Jake. That's why she's upset. Next time you tell us ok?"

"Ok." Alec sighed looking up at Dean with big eyes, "I'm sorry dad."

"You need to tell your mom that and you need to apologize to your Uncle Sammy too."

Alec nodded afraid that if he spoke he might get himself in more trouble. It was bad enough that the television had been taken out of their bedroom. He just didn't wanna loose any more privileges than he already had. He got off the chair and walked towards the library feeling Dean's eyes on him the whole way. He stopped in front of the desk that Sam was sitting at and shifted from foot to foot. Alec turned around meeting Dean's eyes. Dean gave a jerk of his head causing Alec to sigh. He didn't want to apologize to his uncle. Hell, he wasn't even sorry he did it. Alec turned back towards his uncle and took a deep breath. "Uncle Sammy, I'm sorry I organized the ambush on you. And I'm sorry you throw like a girl and got cornered by three kids. You should really get your nose outta those books and do some drills because you need the practice."

"ALEC!"

"What, dad?"

"I told you to apologize to your uncle." Dean growled between clenched teeth. The kid was impossible, an eternal smart ass. Which made Dean think, 'Was I this bad at his age? Surely not, dad would've tanned my hide if I was.' It took all of his Dean's self control not to go and shake the kid, instead he grunted out, "That's not an apology."

"It's ok Dean. He said he was sorry. They didn't inflict any serious damage."

Lexi came up from the basement carrying a stack of dusty old books and catching the tail end of the conversation. She shook her head and gestured for Alec to follow her into the kitchen. He didn't like this at all. Nothing fun ever came from stacks of dusty old books. She sat at the table calling Ben over to join them. Ben joined them without protest, his eyes filled with excitement as he stared at the books. "I'm going to teach you boys how to decipher runes."

"I'm sorry mom." Alec blurted out hoping to get out of this lesson.

"I know you are sweetie but that's not going to get you out of learning this."

Alec couldn't hold in the huff or the insolent look on his face. He didn't want to do this. He'd rather scrub a toilet with a tooth brush."Why do we need to know this anyway? No one uses runes anymore."

"Because when you're a hunter you need to do research. Sometimes the only information you can find on a creature will be written in dead languages and runes."

Alec pulled a face but didn't say anything more. He didn't really want to learn how to do this but not because he couldn't. He had an eidetic memory after all. It was just that Alec was not the book or research type. He was like Dean in that aspect preferring to be the muscle and not the brains of an operation. He hoped by learning how to read these runes it would soften his mom up enough for her to let him off the hook. He glanced over at his brother who actually was enjoying this lesson. Alec shook his head, sometimes he couldn't believe they were related, no less twins for that matter. He really had to get Ben to break this book habit otherwise he'd turn into a bitch like their Uncle Sammy.

The Next Day

The house was still and quiet as Sam sat in the sunny kitchen. He glanced at his watch taking note of the time. He figured he would only have about a half hour more of peace before Dean and the three boys tramped into the house for lunch. The four of them were out in one of the garages preparing the old truck to be painted while Bobby had taken Lexi and Jackie into town to pick up groceries.

Sam had put his search of Lydecker off to the side for the time being. He wasn't getting very far, the only thing he was getting was frustrated. He realized that Jackie was right, he was obsessing over finding Lydecker. He needed to do something else to take his mind off his search. So, he decided to see where the coordinates Lexi's Uncle Gavin sent led to. They all had seemed to have forgotten about the set of house keys that were sitting on Dean's dresser, Sam himself included.

He went upstairs to get the piece of paper that was folded around the keys and then grabbed every map and atlas Bobby owned. He spread everything out on the kitchen table figuring once he found the house's location he would begin to map a way there through back roads. He knew they needed to stay off the major roads as much as possible to avoid security check points. However, he didn't want to take more than two days to get there either. It didn't take him long to pinpoint the house's location but when he did he couldn't help but snort. The house was located in the North West portion of the state, Winchester, CT to be exact. Out of all the safe houses Lexi's Uncle sends them keys to one in Winchester, CT. Sam threw his head back laughing, her Uncle really was a smart ass.