Someone's Watching...

Ashley felt weird walking around the house, but she knew it was where she truly belonged. Of course she missed Max and her mundane job at the bar, but this was her life and there was no escaping it. Ashley was happy to just relax with her brothers, but she was out of practice.

"Sammy, I'm going out for a run" she called out over her shoulder.

"Hey wait, let me come with you" he answered back as he tore himself off the couch.

"Uh alright" Ashley shrugged, stopping herself right before she stepped foot out the back door. She was secretly hoping she would have this time to herself, but Sam was never a brother on runs. "Ready?" she inquired when Sam started to come down the stairs.

"Yup."

The two youngest Winchesters were about 2 miles into their run when Sam felt they were being watched. Sam just shoved it off as someone looking out their window, but now that they were on the jogging trail away from all the houses Sam knew something was up. Sam heard rustling in the bushes surrounding the trail.

"Hey Ash, did you hear that?"

Sam had stopped short and caused Ashley to stop running and turn to face her brother. "Hear what?" Before Sam could answer, a man jumped out from the tree line and latched onto his back.

"Sam!" Ashley ran back to where her brother was struggling with the leech.

"My ankle!" Sam choked out, trying to hold still for Ashley to reach down yet still keep his neck safe from becoming a snack.

Ashley finally found the knife and allowed Sam to back into a tree before making a lung at the now pinned vampire. Ashley stuck the silver knife through the vamp's eye socket all the way down to the hilt. The Son of a Bitch slumped against Sam's back, causing him to sag towards the ground under the dead weight.

"The hell was that?" Sam panted as he shrugged the extra weight off of him.

"Well seems like your neck was main focus, so I'm going to say vamp" Ashley said with a shrug, trying to work all the extra adrenaline out of her muscles. "Come on, we should go back before it actually gets dark and we find ourselves in more trouble."

"Yeah, let's go" Sam sighed as he turned his back on the scene.

Sam and Ashley came busting through the front door, earning a gun pointed at them from a startled Dean. "Dean, it's us" Sam pleaded in order to get the 1911 off of them "we just got attacked by a vamp."

"You what?" clarified Dean as he removed the round he just put into the chamber.

"A vamp jumped out from the tree line and made a bee line for Sam" Ashley stressed as she peaked out the window to make sure her and Sam weren't followed.

"In the day light?" Dean prodded, still confused as to what was going on with the world. All Dean got was a nod from his younger siblings who were still panting. "Alright, grab your stuff; we are heading over to Bobby's for a bit."

Ashley was less than thrilled to hear they were leaving already, but she wasn't at full potential yet and she knew that.

The Winchesters were on the road before the sun went down. Ashley was squeezed in between her two brothers on the front bench seat, just because she felt safer there. Her head was lying on Dean's shoulder as he drove, never saying a single word, even if spoken to. Sam gave up trying to break Dean, so instead he resorted to putting on the pair of sunglasses that rode around in the glove box and took a nap.

Ashley didn't know why Dean suddenly went quiet, but it was on her to get Dean to open up and drop the wall and sadly it would not be happening any time soon based on his body language. "Mind if I uh-" Ashley gestured towards Dean's thigh. She was wanted to take a nap, but Dean's shoulder was too boney and her head would slam down onto the hard point he, weirdly, had right on top of his shoulder every time the Impala hit a bump in the road.

"Go ahead" Dean grumbled and moved his right arm to the seat back in order to give Ashley more room to slide in. He was currently driving with his right leg, but since he had mastered the skill of driving with his left, he decided to give the right a break and Ashley a nicer resting place. Ashley was always able to sleep in awkward positions, and that made Dean jealous. She still seemed like a little kid to him and could easily spate the hunting life with her home life, but no matter how hard Dean had tried with Lisa and Ben he couldn't separate the two; Dean decided then and there that he needed to sever all ties with them.

Ashley used to cuddle up to Dean just like this whenever John drove and it was Sam's turn to sit up front. It was a move that always comforted both of them, perhaps Dean a little more.

AN: Whoa, what could that be? Stay tuned to find out! Tell me what you guys thought!