Sam's jaw dropped before he could stop himself, "That's the last date you remember before you got here?" Sam tried his best to rationalise.
"Ye, the concert was the 26th of June we were leaving the B&B the next morning" Jess was trying her best to control her emotions but all she could think about was the possibility of her and Charley being missing from home for that 8 months, if it has been then we'll have had funerals and everything at this stage, where we're we for the last 8 months. God everyone will have been in bits with everything that's gone on the last few years this is the last thing our families needed.
Sam stood next to Jess at a loss of what to do for her, "Cas, if you're listening we could use you here for a few minutes?" Cas was the only one Sam could think about that would know if there was a time difference.
Dean and Charley came back into the room closing the door behind them and setting the stuff down, Charley saw Jessie's face and rushed to her side. Sam seen the difference in Jessie's attitude as soon as Charley entered the room, her face pulled into a calm mask her body stopped trembling and she placed a reassuring arm around Charley's waist. Dean stood confused beside Sam, "What happened?" Sam scrubbed his hands over his face, he didn't want to be the one to say this to Charley but...Jess stepped in before he could say anything, "I just noticed the date on the paper...it's the 26th of February babes 2013"
Charley's face went white and she swayed, Jess tightened her hold around her waist, "Whoa Charley girl, here sit down for me ok?"
"Jess that's...that's what...8 months. But...does that mean that it's just time difference or that we lost them 8 months?" the shock that shot through Deans body hearing Charley say 8 months was harsh.
"8 months? What's 8 months?" he asked Sam turned to Dean
"Jess and Charley were in their world on the 27th of June 2012, there's either an 8 month gap or there has to be a time difference. I called Cas, but nothing yet" Dean felt a flash of anger towards Cas for taking so long "Cas damn it we need you here for a minute" .
Charley had a mildly confused expression on her face, "why are you talking like that?" "Eh...baby girl, Cas is the angle we told you about he can hear them if they call him by his name, wherever he is"
Just then Cas appeared in the room, causing Charley to jump, "Sorry, I know you told me but still not something I was expecting"
"Cas can you tell us if the time moves the same between our world and the girls?" Sam asked, Cas frowned and looked between the four people waiting anxiously for his answer. "Why would you ask that?" Cas seemed genuinely confused
"The date that Jess and Charley were in their world was June 27th 2012" Cas frowned again
"That's not possible, the time moves the same here as it does there. Can you two remember anything else?" Both girls shook their heads no, Charley's breathing hitched and Jessie moved closer to her on the bed pulling her into her embrace.
"Jessie everyone will think we're dead at this stage" Charley trembled slightly in Jessie's arms, Jessie finding it hard to fight the sickness rolling in her stomach. "We'll figure it out baby girl".
Jessie's eye locked with each of the guys a silent pleading for help in them. Dean rubbed his hands over his face, "Cas you got any news at all for us?" Dean said voice tinged with anxiety
"Nothing new, I just haven't found anything yet. You're still emitting a magical essence and it is still strong, I don't know why it has not wore off you" Cas pointed to Jessie, she just nodded resigned and continued to comfort Charley.
Cas stayed to discuss the new development with Sam and Dean for a few minutes before bidding the two girls a farewell and leaving the group to continue you his search for anything to do with the two girls arrival.
Dean and Sam silently went about the room salting the doors and windows and using an invisible ink marker to draw protective ruins on the walls. Jessie had pulled herself and Charley back so they were leaning on the head board of the bed. Charley had not said anything more since speaking to Jess but had her arms latched around Jessie's waist, her eyes vacant and her head leaning on her shoulder. Jessie was whispering words of comfort to Charley and had her arms wrapped around the smaller girl, trying her best to take away the bad thoughts running through Charley's head.
Dean looked on at the two girls, how the hell are we going to help these girls. Jessie has been holding herself together now since she got here, not once had she cracked, even Charley's silent anguish was a relief that she was dealing with this in some way.
The rest of the evening dragged on quietly, until Charley finally fell asleep, Jessie with Sam's help lay her down on the bed and covered her. Jessie slid to sit on the other side of the bed and rested her head in her hands, scrubbing her eyes trying to wake herself up. "I just need to get some air" She stood abruptly and stepped outside the door, sitting on the small concrete curb outside the room.
"Shit" Dean sighed. Sam was now sitting on the other side of the table from Dean feeling just as lost. "I'll call Bobby again, fill him in on what's happened" he said, "Yeah..." Dean looked towards the door where Jessie had left a few minutes before hand, feeling a twinge of worry with her being outside alone and apparently still attracting attention. "I'm gonna go out, check on Jessie"
Dean stood and went outside leaving Sam to call Bobby, Jessie sat right outside the door, knees bent up and her arms resting on them. She showed no sign that she'd heard him come out, so he took a seat next to her and waited.
After a few minutes sitting in a surprisingly comfortable silence, Jess exhaled a load sigh and turned to Dean with a soft smile. Her eyes had welled up slightly but no tears fell and Dean had a feeling none would. "How you holding up?" he bumped her shoulder
"Em...well not the may west to be honest. 8 months Dean. Our families and friend think we've vanished or died, probably already had some sort of ceremony for us" she sighed roughly "Ye know what though, as upset as I am, I more pissed than anything else"
Dean didn't know what to say, but noticed Jessie shiver slightly in her plain white tee. He shrugged out of his outer top and draped it over her shoulders. Jessie smiled sweetly "Thanks Dean" bumping him in the shoulder.
Dean's stomach gave a stupid little flutter and he resisted the urge to roll his eyes at himself. Deciding to bite the bullet, Dean slung his arm over her shoulder and pulled her gently into him, just for comfort, he told himself. When she didn't pull away but instead turned into the half hug, he did a mental fit pump. The temperature continued to drop and Jess pulled away from Dean, motioning with her head "We should go back in, it's getting colder and I've nicked one of your layers" she joked causing Dean to snigger.
After Dean left to check on Jessie and Sam had finished on the phone with Bobby, Charley began to stir on the bed, eyes eventually opening. "Hay" Sam said, sitting on the opposite bed "Jess is just outside the door, said she needed some air" Charley huffed affectionately "Typical of her to not let anyone see she's stressed. Was I asleep long?"
"No not long, really, Jess only stepped out a few minutes ago, Dean is with her" Sam fidgeted uncomfortably on the bed for a few minutes.
Before his mouth got the better of him "How are you holding up?" Sam winced internally at the stupid question, of course she's not ok. Charley sighed, "Well I'm not great but it could be worse, at least I'm here with Jessie. I'm worried about our family and friends, how they were when they found out we were gone, if they think we're dead or taken. But as selfish as it sounds I'm glad I was taken with Jessie, instead of her being here alone and me being left there alone"
Sam move to sit next to Charley and gingerly pulled her into a comforting hug. "We'll figure it out Charley" Charley squeezed Sam back before pulling away
"Thanks Sam, you guys have been great you know that" Sam felt yet another traitorous blush grace his cheeks and stood from the bed, clearing his throat. After everything I did with Ruby I should keep myself away from her.
Dean and Jessie came back in then and everyone settled into the room, the boys flicking on the T.V and the girls had fetched their iphones from their duffels, they were sitting next to each other flicking through pictures. Most of which had them giggling, a silent agreement between the two of them that they would be there for each other on the bad day missing their family but right now it was too raw to talk about.
Sam and Dean glanced over at the giggling girls, dying with curiosity to what they were laughing at. Dean pursed his lips and decided to be nosey, standing from the chair at the table he made his way over to the girls and perched on the edge of the bed next to Jessie, Sam following suit and sitting next to Charley "What are you two laughing at?"
The girls sniggering subsided and Jessie tilted her phone so the boys could see, it was a picture of the two of them with three other girls all dressed up in burlesque costumes striking ridicules poses, and pulling them off really well. "What...are you two wearing?" Sam gasped "Sammy don't you diss them outfits, I think you two look great and your friends" Dean defended.
Jessie and Charley laughed again, "We were going to a birthday party but they had a Moulin rouge theme for it. God it was hilarious, no one but us actually went in burlesque, we got so many funny looks and people asking for pictures with us. So funny!" Charley said.
Jessie continues flicking through her pictures and telling funny stories, showing the boys who was who and who her family was, Charley doing the same. Charley scrolled passed a picture of Jessie playing the guitar and singing.
"Whoa, go back..." Sam said, "Is that you playing the guitar Jessie?", a small flush crept up Jessie's cheek's and she cleared her throat "That was just a small kiddies group thing, Charley did Irish dancing..." "JESSIE!" "What?...I'm going down I'm taken you with me baby girl". The small group spent the evening laughing about all the stupid stories Jess and Charley had about one another and their families, their laughter making the two boys feel more at easy.
Over the next seven weeks Jessie and Charley had been getting lessons from the brothers on the supernatural, getting the girls at least somewhat more informed. Plus it gave them time to get through the news about missing 8 months of their lives. They had travelled very little only moving because apparently Jess still had this magical aura around her, Cas said it didn't look like it was lessening just adapting to Jessie's lifestyle by hiding it's self.
Their first hunt was your run of the mill salt and burn in their third week of being with the brothers. The angry spirit of a wife who had died by the hands of her abusive husband was wreaking havoc on any male in the small town, good or bad. Dean and Sam had some nasty bruising from being thrown around the grave yard as the two girls rushed to finish the banishing. Since then they have been on a few hunts with the boys and were doing very well, Sam and Dean had even started to follow leads on Crowley again. The girls were pretty good at the research part of the job as well, and found one or two possible leads to where Crowley might be. Sam and Dean eventually told the girl that they were trying to get the Colt off of Crowley and that this gun was there only possible idea at killing Lucifer.
During their fifth week with the brothers they had run into a few demon's, this was the girls first time against actual demon's and as far as the brothers were concerned they held their own and then some. The brothers were still reeling from the skill both girls showed using two copper pipes they found at the side of the building to fight with. When they asked the girls said that the pipes were just like smaller Bo staff's.
Now after being with the boys for nearly two months they were finally making their way to Bobby's house, they had spoke with him on the phone once or twice but not meet him yet.
"We're only about an hour out from Bobby's now" Sam told the girls in the back.
"Cool, is it weird that I'm nerves about meeting him, I mean he's basically another dad to you two?" Charley said, the boys laughed
"Nah, Bobby's grumpy nine times outta ten so don't take it personal" laughed Dean. Jessie sat in the back behind Dean humming along to the Metallica songs blasting from the Impala's speakers. When nothing else matters came on she started to sing eventually getting Charley to sing with her, by the end of the song Sam and Dean were singing too leaving everyone chuckling after it was finished.
Sam and Deans relationship had been strained before the girls showed up, everything to do with Ruby, demon blood, Lucifer's rising just causing a rift between the two of them. Now they were much better, having the two girls there the last two months really made them work on getting back to where they were before all that. Plus those girls were funny as fuck once they got going, seemed they used humour as a coping mechanism, even on their bad days they would make each other laugh.
Dean pulled the Impala into the salvage yard and up the drive way, shutting of the engine everyone hopping out of the car. Jessie and Charley feeling just a small bit awkward, wanting to get the first proper introduction out of the way.
Bobby ambled out of the house and waited at the door for the four youngin's to make their way over to him. Getting his first look at the girls set him back a small bit, he could see the boy's body language they were smitten and had reason to be they were beautiful young girls.
Boddy stuck his hand out to the first of the two ladies, the slightly taller of the two, "Well nice to finally meet ye's, which one is which?" Jessie smiled and shook Bobby's hand "I'm Jess and this is Charley" Charley took Bobby's hand after "Hi"
"Well come on I'm sure you lot are tired at this stage" Boddy greeted the brothers as he lead them all back into the house. "Dude, I'm hungry" Dean stated, "We only stopped for food like two hours ago" teased Charley, "I'm a grown boy, need my food" Dean smirked.
"Well I've nothing in so you'll have to order"
"Fine with me, we're getting Pizza, if I see one more Chinese food box I'll gag"
"Well Dean we did tell you that chicken looked funny"
"I don't even think it was chicken Charley girl" Jessie added.
Bobby watched the easy banter between the four and realised how good Sam and Dean seemed, I mean he knew they were better but they seem really good with each other.
"Right, when you order come through and we'll go over anything we can"
After ordering three large pizza's they all settled in Bobby's cluttered front room. "I've done as much research on you two girls situation that I can. And I can find nothing and I mean nothing, on how you were brought here. I'm sorry I think I hit a dead end"
Jessie looked to Bobby with understanding "It's ok Bobby, we really appreciate everything you did, we'll just have to find something else" she smiled.
"Right, ...so down to Crowley. You followed the leads you found and came up dry ye?"
"Ye..." Sam said "one place got nothing the other we ran into a few lower class demons causing trouble but none of them knew where Crowley was"
Dean shifted on the couch "Ye but it seemed weird right, I mean there were signs of a cross road deal there and word of a posh English twat walking around"
Bobby thought for a minute "Maybe it wasn't Crowley, could have been omen's pointing to Lucifer?"
The group spent the rest of the afternoon brainstorming ideas, and drawing up blank, Crowley just wanted to stay hidden and that's what he was doing. After the pizza was devoured they started to read up more on transporting to different world, still coming up with nothing. Charley sighed roughly, getting frustrated with the lack of answers they were getting and put the book she was scanning down. Jess noticed Charley's agitation "Bobby would the back of your properly be hidden, ye know, no nosey neighbours can see into it?"
"Well ye, no one around close enough to see anything. Why?"
"I think we need a breather, mind if we go out back?"
"Knock yourself out", "Thanks Bobby" she flashed a smile.
"Can I have the keys to open the boot of the car please Dean?"
"Sure, what you need?"
"Me and Charley are gonna get our Bruce Lee on, burn off some steam" She winked, Charley sigh relief pouring through her body "God, that would be great, you're a genius Jess"
"I have my moments"
Dean tossed the keys to Jess and she jogged out to the car to get their training gear.
"Their gonna get there what on?" Bobby asked confused, the brothers laughed
"There just going to train for a bit, we haven't actually seen them go at it properly yet so I'm going outside to be nosey" Sam said stretching his long limbs after sitting for so long
"Me too. You coming?" asked Dean. Bobby shrugged and intrigued followed the boy around back. Jess had favoured just her tee and sweets for training as did Charley, their hair's were pulled back and up off their faces and the small bags that their weapons were left just at the back door, Dean's car keys in Jessie's bag.
Jess and Charley had their Bo staffs ready on the ground next to them but were doing a series of stretches and breathing exercise before staring. Dean's gaze fixed on Jessie as Sam's was fixed on Charley. Bobby came back out holding three chilled beers and sat to watch the girl apparently Bruce Lee it.
"You ready Charley girl? Let's just free style it ye, burn off a bit of frustration"
"Sometimes it scares me how well you know me" Charley baited
"Pshhh...Ye right, you love it. Now come on baby girl no holding back. Go for it"
The girls all of a sudden went from facing one another calmly to all out hand to hand combat. "Whoa..."Dean said "They look like their gonna kill each other, we should throw some jello on them"
Thwack ... "Awch, What the hell Bobby"
"Don't be crude boy" Dean pouted for all of a minute until he was fixated on the girls fight again, fists and feet shooting out to hit the other but never reaching or braking past the blocks.
"Gezz, when you two said Bruce Lee I thought it was a joke" mumbled Bobby "Ohh...you have seen nothing yet" Sam said engrossed with the fight. Suddenly both girls flipped away from the other and flicked the Bo staff's to their awaiting hand with their foot, doing some complicated looking twirls with them before battening back in on each other.
"Jesus, you sure these two aren't hunters, cause that's some serious skills they got" Boddy admitted.
"You should see them with fire arms now, you'd swear they'd been holding one all their life" Sam said, "That was funny the first time Charley cleaned a gun though Sammy, had me in fits for ages, man"
"What she do?" Bobby asked, both boys near giggling with the memory, Sam quipped in between breaths "Scared it'd go off in her hand, no bullets and the thing was taken apart" Dean imitated Charley's voice "What if it shocks me, its metal and I'm always static, it could go off" They laughed.
The two girls were still going at it just as hard as when they started, they sprung away from each other again and lay the Bo staffs down to one side. Then both picked up two sai's that none of the guys had even seen there and started another complicated set of wrist twists and flicks with the weapons.
They moved slower towards one another this time, both holding the sai's in a different stance, going with the form they preferred. This was why they loved the weapons training even though you had to know all of the fights forms you could favour one and make it into your own.
The guys became a little nervous watching the girls fight with the sai's, they could hear the blades zing off one another and see sparks flying away from the fight when the blades meet. But both girls had prefect control over the blades, dodging and ducking when needed, pairing and slashing back where needed, like a dance. After an hour of an exerting training session Jess and Charley finally stopped, sweaty and panting for air but happy all the same. Picking up their weapons, Jessie slung her arm over Charley's shoulder and they walked back towards the guys, their fight having moved them up the yard a bit.
"Well when you Igits said Bruce Lee it I know what ye meant, though I don't even think that sums it up all that well" Jess and Charley smiled sweetly at Bobby comment
"Thanks Bobby" Charley said between breaths, she leaned up against Jessie feeling the pull of her muscles from their work out, they needed a shower. They put their weapons away and sat next to the boys on the steps
"Showers up stairs if ye wanna use it girls" Said Bobby, Charley sighed just thinking about the hot water
"Go on baby girl you go first" Jess said, "You sure?" "Yeah, I'm sure, I can see the pre blessed-out look on your face thinken about the hot water" the boys chuckled at Charley's cheeky smile "God yes" Charley hopped up a new spring in her step and went inside.
"You girls are good Jess, real good. How long did it take you to learn all that?"
"I've been doing it nine years now and have had all my black tags and teaching for the last few years and just stuck with it. I'd be different if I was sparing someone else because me and Charley know each other so well we can practically predict what the other will do. That's the main reason we don't hurt each other anymore, we used to though, have a few scars from it" Jessie giggled. Dean was still buzzing from watching them spar
"Teach me something" he said, making Sam and Bobby laugh "What...I'm serious"
"Oh I'm sure you are, go on Jess kick his ass" Sam sniggered.
Jess smiled at Dean "What did you have in mind?"
"The sticks teach me something with them"
Jess laughed at Dean's stupid cocky attitude "Alright Hotstuff get up and grab my Bo staff there" Jess took Charley's and moved a little away from the porch. "He's a real Igit sometimes, she's gonna kick his ass" Bobby and Sam waited excited to see Dean end up on his ass.
Dean's stomach did one of them stupid little flutters when Jess called him Hotstuff as he followed her. "Ok, what do I do?" He tried twisting it the way he seen the girls do it making funny kung fu sound effect as he did. Jess laughing her ass off when the Bo staff came swirling around and knocked him in the head, "Aw...shit there hard" Dean pouted.
"Come here" Jess chuckled "Stand as if you were going to throw a swing a someone" She instructed "Ok your right hand down, just copy what I do" Jess took the same stance as Dean and moved her hands, feet and Bo staff in a fluid motion slowly. They repeated the move a few time until Dean felt comfortable, "Ok now the move I showed you is mainly used to push attacking weapons out of the way"
"Well that'll come in handy if I remember it"
"Why do you think I picked that one to show you"
Jess moved to stand in front of Dean "Now, I'll come at you..."
"No, no, no you won't you're not hitting me, they'll never let me hear the end of it" Jessie smiled biting her lip to stop her laughing "I won't hit you we're going to do it slow first so you'll see me coming a mile away"
Sam and Bobby were sniggering already "Dude I'm gonna rib you about being such a whim anyway so you may as well go all the way"
"Bitch"
"Jerk"
Dean turned his attention back to Jessie "Ok, go!"
Jessie was true to her word moving fluidly and slowly through the move, each time Dean's new move knocking her Bo staff away the way it should. Eventually she moved quicker building up pace till Dean nearly slipped, but her reflexes were quick enough to shift the assault she was aiming on Dean so he wouldn't get hurt. "Good" Jess praised "Not bad for a beginner"
"Hear that Sammy, I am the master" Sam answering snort causing everyone to laugh, Charley had come back down fresh from the shower to catch Dean's lesson.
"Hay that was looken good Dean, you keep practicing and it'll get quicker" Dean smiled turned smug, turning to Jess "Your really good at teaching"
"Jessie has always had a flair for teaching, she's why I'm so good" chipped in Charley.
"And you never taught, classes?" Dean asked
"Nope, I didn't really get on with the owner of the club all that well, he was a bit of an ass"
"Get yourself into trouble too many times?" Sam jibed
"Hmmm...more like disagreed strongly with him...a lot" Jess retorted, Sam and Dean laughed but Bobby notice the sour expression on Charley's face and gave her a pointed look "Disagreed Jessie?...You said no when he asked you out and he had it in for you since" Charley answered
Dean frowned getting an uncomfortable feeling in his chest "So what he picked on you cause you told him to take a hike?"
"Well, he was persistent so I said yes once, worst mistake ever because he was a self centred narcissistic ass hole, and I never said yes again. He tried spreading nasty rumours about me but everyone knew full well that it was a load of crap, so he got a bee in his bonnet about me. I had offers to teach elsewhere but I turned them down, I didn't mind helping the younger ones every now and then but I liked training more"
"He was just jealous cause you were better than him" Jess smiled at Charley's reassurance then jogged over to the house "Going for a shower, I feel all icky"
"Well he sounds like a Jerk, should we not have asked? Jess seemed a little uncomfortable" Sam asked Charley
"Nah, she's good, Jessie gets all bashful anytime you mention someone crushing on her, its adorable, but don't tell her I said that. She'd kill me"