So some Dean/Jess fluff but nothing romance wise yet just a build up :-) Plus a cute jealous Sam awww
Dean woke because there was a light hitting his eyes, only feeling like he had fallen asleep, there's no way its morning. Opening his eye's he shot up out of the bed, Jessie was lying on her stomach on her side of the bed and glowing a mix of purple and gold.
"Shit...Jessie?...Jess?..." Dean called her from the other side of the bed not knowing whether or not to touch her. After a few seconds the glow went away and Jessie groaned, her head felt fuzzy but no headache.
"What..." trying to push herself up she was going to give up until Deans hands helped her. She just kneeled on the bed, Dean sitting in front of her to hold her up.
"What the hell was that Jessie?" Dean breathed
"What was what?..." Jessie still felt a little fuzzy but tried to concentrate on what Dean was saying.
"You were glowing. Purple and gold glowing" Jess frowned until the dream came rushing back to her
"No way!" Jess swung her legs off the bed and ran to the mirror in the bathroom Dean following after asking what was wrong. Jess turned her back to the mirror and lifted her top up a small bit, the tattoo etched into her back exactly where the Goddesses had said, she still gasped, it is beautiful and really suit me, like what they said...
"Jessie, where did that come from?" Dean breathed eyes riveted on the skin exposed on her back
"I had another dream, they said it would look like that and it goes up further" Jess answered not really paying attention to Dean's reaction.
"Who said?" Jess looked at Dean
"The Goddesses Badb and Athena..."
"Two Goddesses I thought we only guessed one, and why did they mark you at all?" Jess was reeling from the dream the tattoo and trying to focus her thought to calm Dean down.
"I'll explain everything from the dream, I just want to see the tattoo first" Dean scrubbed his hands over his face and nodded
"Yeah..." Jessie held her tee shirt in a way that covered her chest after she pulled it over her head Deans eyes looking at the ceiling as she moved her hair and looked at the tattoo on the whole of her back "Whoa..." she breathed amazed, causing Deans curious gaze to look in the mirror "Holy shit..."
"I know right..."
"It's...well I mean it actually really suits you" it didn't just suit her it looked amazing on her, complimented her skin tone and highlighted her figure from the back, drawing Deans eyes to her waist line and hips.
"Thanks..." she stood looking for a few minute then slipped her top back on properly moving to sit on the bed, "We should wake Sam and Charley, I'll fill you all in then" Dean called Sam telling him to get their butts to their room now.
After Charley practically tackled Jess to make sure she was ok, they sat down all squashed on the one bed.
"What's up?" Sam asked
"I had another dream and they definitely mean something because I got this from the one I had tonight..." Jess turned and kneeled on the bed facing the wall and pulled up the back of her shirt to show off the tattoo. Charley gasped, then leaned closer "They're Celtic swirls and Celtic bosses but...what are the other markings?"
"They look Greek..." Sam trailed off
"They are, there wasn't just the Goddess Badb in my dream but the Goddess of war Athena as well who I am apparently a descendant to both of..." Jess retold the dream to everyone although she did leave out the little bit about Dean, guessing he wouldn't want it said in front of anyone else.
"This is unreal..." Charley trailed off "and our families are ok?" she asked quietly
"They said they were doing anything they could to help and that everyone was ok, yeah"
"What do we do about the colt, do we leave it or try get in back anyway?" Sam asked
"Jessie's up one tattoo I say we go for the relic's and see where we go from there. But we tell no one else, let them all think we're still after the gun" Dean said
Charley moved behind Jessie and pulled up her top to see the tattoo again, Jessie caught it before it went too far up the front, "Little warning next time baby girl" Jess scolded, causing Sam and Dean to laugh.
"How far does it go up Jess?"
"All the way to the base of my neck Charley girl, and I do like it"
"You just got an amazing tattoo and didn't have to sit through hours of pain so ye good job you like it huh?" Charley smiled "suits you too"
"That's what I said" Dean chipped in
"Finding the first relic will keep till tomorrow so we should all try get some more rest" Jess said
"Hear that you two...rest..." Dean teased Sam and Charley when they were leaving, Charley just stuck her tongue out at him making him laugh.
Dean settled himself back into bed and waited for Jess to switch off the light but the expression on her face made him think twice.
"What?..."
"There was something else they said in the dream I didn't think you'd want me to say in front of the others..." Dean stiffened "...they said there was a darkness in you that if you didn't face it would only grow" Dean was fighting the urge to become defensive, it was exactly the reason why he didn't want Jess to know, it was dark. But she hadn't said it in front of Sam or Charley.
"Jess I really don't think I can talk about that"
"Why?" she asked gently
"I'm no good at this emotional feelings stuff, that's more Sam's thing"
"That's no reason, what you real reason?" Jess push a little, Dean looked at her, really looked and he saw the same amazing girl that arrived on their doorstep, family gone and coping beyond belief with everything, who has now been told she's the one to end the apocalypse, the one he and Sam basically started. Sighing he leaned back against the head board he couldn't face looking at her if he was going to tell her anything, but as if she knew she move to sit knees to her chest so they were facing.
"You know I sold my soul for Sammy..." Jess nodded not wanting to interrupt "...I was in Hell...hung up on a rack, the things they did to me were...nothing you can even imagine the torture and pain, mental and physical they never let up it was constant" Deans fists were clenched, his eyes going red, "...time is different there, those four months ...were more like forty years here..."
Jess was trying her best to hold in the surprise gasp and keeping her hands to herself, she so wanted to reach out to him, "...but after thirty I got off the rack, after saying no for thirty years, no to being the one on the other side of the rack, no to racking up their soul count, I just couldn't do it anymore..." Deans eye were welling up, his breath hitching, Jess tried to swallow the lump in her throat waiting for Dean to keep talking "...I got off and tortured soul after soul, I didn't care who was racked up. And right now it's always there in my head, what I did, how many I tortured ..."
Shaking his head Dean rubbed the tears from his face and chanced a look at Jessie, terrified to see the disgust and hate in her eye. But when he looked what he saw made him feel so much relief he near passed out, he saw her eyes had welled up and her face flushed, she had folded her arms across her knees and had her mouth buried in her arms. It was the expression on her face, not sympathetic but understanding and pain.
He had looked away again, so he didn't see Jessie move until she grabbed his hands, unclenching his fists and threading her fingers through one of his hands with the other she grasped his chin firmly and coaxed his eyes back up to hers.
"You are a good man Dean..." he tried to pull his face away but she wouldn't let him "...Listen to me, you can disagree with me after if you want. You are a good man...Dean what you do is not easy, no matter how much you play it off. Everything you've been through made you who you are now. You and Sam took me and Charley in when we landed on your lap, no if, buts or ands about it. You save so many people and have lived through seriously hard times before you went to Hell..." Dean tried to pull his face again cutting Jess off
"All of those souls I tortured ... I enjoyed it Jess. For me to finally be the one dish out some pain to let out my own out somehow ..."
"Your human Dean not superman, you lasted thirty years of what they did to you and your here now...I see you with Sam your still his over protective big brother, with Bobby your still practically a son. You have compassion for people in a shit situation and put your whole heart into risking your health and life to try and fix it. How does that not make you a good man Dean?"
Jessie was trying her best to hold in the tears threatening to fall but one or two still rolled down her check, Dean following their movement with his eyes. Her hand loosened its gentle hold on his chin and swiped away the last of the moisture on his face. Then joined their other hands and thread her fingers through his free one. Jess wasn't really waiting for an answer she was just wait for anything off him, biting her lip she looked her eyes with his again.
"How do you do it?...Be here the way you are now, up to a few months ago the only thing you knew here was Charley?" Dean asked and the intensity in his eyes that made Jess know that he needed to hear this.
"Everything that we've been through since me and Charley have gotten here do you know what the scariest time was for me?...When I didn't know I had Charley with me, when I thought I was completely alone or losing my mind. That's what I used to make myself ok, I had Charley...and yeah I miss my family and friends so much...so much, it still hurts sometimes. But after a while all me and Charley kept saying was how lucky we were to have been found by you and Sam. Everything you did for us made us want to be there, be here with you guys more and more. Even though we miss our families so much they all have each other's backs, dozens of them not just one or two. I'm here because I want to be and I'm coping the way I am because of Charley, Sam and you"
"I don't know how to...do it the way you did" Dean whispered but Jessie shook her head and smiled, squeezing his hands.
"You're doing it now Dean." His face frowned and he opened his mouth to answer but nothing came out. Jessie freed one of her hands again wiped the fresh tear track off his face and moves to sit next to him at the top of the bed. What Dean was not expecting was for Jess to pull them down and him into a hug, it made him feel very young and vulnerable, but he didn't pull away. Jess broke away to quickly pull the covers over them then started to run her hand through his hair, trying to sooth him. Deans last though before his eyes closed was how much lighter he felt having someone know all the gritty details and how nice it was that they were still there for him, that Jess was here for him.
Dean woke up slowly the next morning, his first instinct to burrow his nose into the heat he was lying on, until he felt the steady rise and fall. Last night came rushing back, Jessie's dream, him confessing and everything Jessie had said. Warmth rushed through him, she didn't run the other way calling him a monster instead she looked at him the same as always, honestly.
He lifted his head easily so not to wake Jess, her face was relaxed in sleep the very faint tear marks still on her face from last night, her arms were wrapped around him, one hand still in his hair where he can remember her running her fingers through it last night. Easing his head back so it was next to hers he reached out and moved some of her long soft hair from her face, caressing her check at the same time.
He was never this mushy before and he pinned it all on her. Her wanted to be nothing but caring to her, wanted to be able to randomly take her hand whenever he wanted or sling an arm around her waist for her to turn into him. He wanted all of it with her, every soppy romantic notion he could think of and every chick-flick moment he had ribbed Sam over. And after last night it didn't seem so out of reach now.
His phone rang on the bedside table, reaching out to grab it before it woke Jess, he answered and moved to the bathroom closing the door.
"Hay Sammy, what's up?"
"You ok man? I called your phone and got no answer?"
"Yeah Sammy...I'm good" said smiling
"Ok, well anyway it's 12 so if we're not outta here in the next hour we'll be paying for another room"
"12...Whoa never sleep in that late"
"Guess all the late nights just caught up with all of us, see you in a few minutes"
Dean washed up before heading back out to wake Jessie, she was curled up in his side of the bed, no doubt her arm had gone asleep with him on it all night.
"Jessie...come on we gotta get up, clear out of here...Jessie" giving her a small nudge her eyes eventually fluttered open, she smiled as soon as she saw him.
"Morn'in Hotstuff"
"Good morning sleepy head" Jessie scrunched up her nose adorably, "its 12, we have to be out of here or else we'll get stung to pay for another night"
"Oh..." she yawned, again adorable, "Ok"
As Dean went to pack his stuff she caught his hand, "How you doing this morning?"
Dean smiled, full on beaming at Jess, "I feel good, better than good actually"
"Good" Jessie smiled and Dean figured seen as how she's done it so much that leaning down to peck her on the forehead was the perfect way to say thank you, earning him another smile.
Once they had all packed up they decided that breakfast was the first thing on the agenda, before diving into more research. They drove to a same town and pulled up outside a diner, "Man I'm starved"
"You're always hungry Dean" snorted Sam
"I'm a growing man Sammy I need sustenance" Dean fired back
"No...you're a grown man, there's a difference" Dean just snorted, leaving the two girls to giggle walking up behind them to the diner.
Sam opened the door and the boys hustled the girls in, in front of them. When they got into the diner a young man in his twenties was at the checkout, the group moved to an empty booth and waited for someone to come serve them.
The young man, whose name tag said Sean stopped over to their table to get their drink order, his eyes only glancing up from his note pad until he notice Charley. Dean noticed his attitude change and smirked, wondering how possessive Sammy would get and how much Charley would let him away with.
"What can I get the lovely ladies to drink?" Sean asked attempting to make his voice seem flirtatious. Everyone looked at him and noticed his stare at Charley, causing Sam to frown and Jess to cover her smile.
"Coffee's all round, thanks" Charley answered, slightly put out with his weird stare. Jess sniggered when he left the table
"What are you giggling at?" she asked Jess
"You just got another member to your fan group, and I was laughing at Sam's face..."
Charley and Dean looked at Sam, "What face?" Sam snipped
"Your inner cave man was fighting to come out there for a minute" she sniggered
Sam's face scrunched up while Dean laughed but Charley looked at Sam curiously,
"What...I wasn't doing anything, I swear" Sam denied
"Ok..." Jessie trailed off
Just then the waiter Sean came back with a tray of four coffee's, Sam doing his best to study the menu while Sean out right stared at Charley, "Here you go sweetness" he winked at Charley, as soon as the endearment come out of that boys mouth Charley glanced at Sam because his head snapping around that quick, Dean and Jess sat there covering there sniggers with their coffee cups.
Trying his best to rain in the irrational possessiveness in his mind Sam looked at everyone else on the table "Everyone ready to order?" Charley noticed Sam's stiff posture and reached for his hand on the table top. The waiter Sean noticed but didn't seem to change his mind about Charley
"This your boyfriend sweetness? You could do better than that" he said smartly, Jessie continued to giggle then whispered something to Dean.
"You..." gritted Sam, Charley was starting to get annoyed at this little boys smart attitude, and cut Sam off.
"Don't call me sweetness again. And you really need to wait for puberty to hit or your testacies to drop before you try pulling off a cocky attitude like that otherwise it just looks ridicules" Charley added a sweet smile just to dose up the condescending tone. Dean and Jess were outright laughing now, Sam had a loved up stupid look on his face as he pulled Charley into his side.
"In fact we want someone else to take our order, thanks" she finished smartly
"Oh Charley girl...you're a legend babes" Jessie high fived Charley while Dean and Sam continued to laugh.
After the breakfast fiasco the group went to the small town's closest library to start finding a lead in the bracelet's location. Sam went straight to an internet spot with his laptop and Jess to a computer while Charley and Dean went to rifle through books. Dean was the one to find something on Badb jewellery in the mythology section but it was only a small book, he gave it to Sam who was able to refine his search. Charley told Jess to look up collectors of artefacts' and eventually found a hit on a CEO of a major company in Miami.
"Sam look at this..."
James Hall was one of the world renowned collectors of valuable artefacts one of his first buys being a bracelet that bore the marks Jess now had on her back.
"That has to be it...the markings match the ones on my back..." Jess trailed off trying to examine the bracelet, it looked old and was only marked as an old artefact not anything to do with Celtic mythology or Badb herself.
Dean had made his way over when he saw Jess and Sam hunched over the same small screen, he leaned over Jessie shoulder and smiled... "Miami...we actually have a reason to go to Miami" he was ecstatic.
"Looks like it ye...hay if we wrap this up quick maybe we could go out there for Charley's birthday..."
"Go out where?,,," she asked slipping up behind Dean.
"Miami?" Jess smiled
"Well I am so up for that, we..." she gestured to her and Jess "...have not had a dance since we got here and I don't know about you but I'm going to go into withdrawal if we don't do something about it..."
"You two go dancing...like in those proper dance clubs not just the bars we've been hanging out in?" Dean asked finding it hard to see them in that kind of setting, but then again he's never really seen them all done up or asked even... "That's something I'd like to see..." he smirked.
"By the sounds of it this bracelet is held in his house, which I would assume is like Fort Knox. So we'll need security systems and plans but we won't be able to get them till we reach Miami. If you two really do want to go out I'm thinken we do that first because we'll have to book when we uh..."
"Right..." Dean agreed with Sam "...so what do you wear?" Charley slapped him playfully on the shoulder as they all made their way back out to the Impala, Charley calling Bobby with the latest.
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