When You're Broken

It felt like a lifetime passed and the door was still shut. Ashley's mind was racing around every moment she spent with Max. She was almost as happy with Max as she was with Sam and Dean, after Sam got over his wall being broken down. Dean's tired sigh broke Ashley from her thoughts and drove Ashley to bang on the door one more time. There was a rustling behind the door, signifying someone was finally coming to the door.

"Here we go" Dean said squeezing Ashley's shoulder.

Max opened the door in a pair of baggy sweatpants and sleep tosseled hair. "What the hell-oh, Ash!" he said finally opening his eyes wide enough to see the two Winchesters standing in the hall.

"Hey babe" Ashley answered sheepishly.

"What are you guys doing here?"

"Well, Killer here was climbing up the walls" Dean said for his tongue tied sister.

"Can I come in?" she said taking a step closer to her love.

"Uh, it's not a-" Max started.

"Seriously, I just drove nonstop from South Dakota" Dean said slightly irked.

Ashley took the hesitation to push past Max and into the messy apartment- that's when she saw the pink lacy bra thrown on the lamp in the corner. "You Son of a Bitch" she hissed as she felt her hand soar through the air and collide with his scruffy face.

"Whoa now, Killer" Dean said running up to get in between the quarreling lovers and almost earning him a smack in the face, until she stopped short of Dean's face.

"The hell did you do?" Ashley spat around her brother.

"I was lonely, alright?"

"Ash, go wait in the car" Dean barked "I'll talk to Romeo here and uh, finish up what you started" Dean smirked to the man behind him.

"Yeah, thanks Dean" she said snatching the keys from Dean.

"So Buddy boy" Dean crooned "why'd you have to go and do that to her?"

Max was scarred of the hunter in front of him. "Look, I didn't mean to hurt Ash, but I-I-I was lonely!" Max stammered.

"Dammit Max! Then call her or heck order a little pay-per-view! Not put my sister through the ringer again!" Dean barked into Max's now bruised face.

"So lookie here, you don't call her, you don't even picture her face before you fall asleep" Dean asserted "or I swear, I'll come back and beat you again!"

"Wait agai-" Max started , but was stopped by a punch to the jaw and a couple kicks to the ribs.

"Heh, be grateful it wasn't Ash or Sammy" Dean laughed as he grabbed his jacket off the floor "they can't stop themselves like I can."

Dean lied, he wanted to keep going,. Every bone in his hunting body wanted to keeep punch that douchebag until blood was coming out of every orface, but coming back out to his sister with blood on his knuckles and shirt would only hurt her more even if she didn't want to admit it

Ashley was sitting on the hood of the Impala in sweatpants instead of a skirt, Dean was pretty sure those were Sam's Stanford ones she occasionally stole from his duffle.

"Thanks De" she whispered with a rough voice, not bothering to budge from her position, on the hood.

"Yeah, sure thing" Dean responded still fuming that some guy hurt his baby sister. Before Dean came out of the building he called Sam to tell him what really happened. Sam and Dean both agreed the only way to cheer Ash up was a party, but Sam pointed out that it was too soon. Dean let AShley clamp on to his back and carried her into the car as they headed for the closest motel.

Dean was barely awake by the time they pulled into the hotel. Dean wasted no time stripping off his clothes and crawling in to bed. Dean rolled onto his left side to get more comfortable, and saw Ashley was still standing by the door. She looked so broken and lost; Dean felt horrible for Ashley but there wasn't a thing he could do to take the pain away but he could help. " 'ey Ash" Dean murmured "come here."

"Yeah, what?" she said leaning over her brother. All she got in response was Dean patting the bed next to him. She was happy to sleep with someone in the same bed, even if Dean did just give her greif for being such a baby and unable to sleep alone. "Thanks De" she sobbed as she placed her head on Dean's peck. "Mmhm" he mumbled half asleep and wrapping a protective arm around his broken sister.

AN: Sorry about that cliffhanger I left you all on, but you know deep down you like it! Hope you liked, tell me what you thought! Next chapter will be a flash back, so no one get confused alright? :)