"A Moment In Time"

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters; those belong to their original creators. The way it's all stringed together is of my making. No profit is being made out of this (*sigh* unfortunately).

Fandom(s): Vampire Diaries and Supernatural
Character(s): Elena and Jeremy Gilbert (mainly) and a Winchester
Pairing: Elena/Jeremy (sib-dynamic)

Rating: T
Words: 714 words

Requested By: N/A
Challenge/Summary: Nothing comes without a price...and this price affects more than just a set of brothers.
Inspiration: SPN's John/Adam situation

Spoiler(s): Before Elena met the Salvatores…when Grayson and Miranda Gilbert were still alive.
Time Frame: May 2nd 2008 (SPN fans will know the significances)

A/N: At the end to avoid additional spoilers.

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"Waiting Is Never Easy"

She always hated the point in time when you had to wait for news.

Good or bad it didn't matter, the waiting time was torturous all the same. It's during that time that your mind runs wild with all sorts of scenarios pertaining to the source of the news and whichever way you spun it, the conjured thoughts just add to the torture.

Tick.

Tock.

Tick.

Tock.

The teenager groaned as she started pacing her room again. She couldn't take it. The deadline was creeping up on her and her mind was firing off questions as if its life depended on it.

Did they find her?

Did they get her?

Why aren't they calling?

What if something happened?

If she continued like this, she was pretty sure she'd be bald in the morning due to the numerous amounts of time that she's ran her hands through her long brown hair before she tugged at it furiously with all her might.

How could this happen?

How could everything get so screwed up at this point?

"Elena?" The teenager twirled around when she heard her name being called, only to come face to face with her groggy brother, Jeremy, as he stood at her door, the one that led to their shared bathroom, as he tiredly rubbed his eyes. "Can you go to bed now? You're pacing is interrupting my sleep."

"I'm sorry Jer but I...I can't." She said, her voice cracking just a bit at the end as she slumped down onto the end of her bed.

Jeremy sighed as he dragged his feet as he made his way to sit beside her. "I get it Elena but you need to sleep, it's after midnight."

"I don't care Jer. The deadline's up, why haven't they called?" She asked when she turned to face him, letting Jeremy see clearly that she was fighting back her tears.

Jeremy blew out a big breath, not completely sure how to comfort his sister in this unusual situation. "I don't know Elena. I wished I did but I don't."

"This can't be happening Jer. I rarely get to see him as it is, he can't be gone permanently...he can't be!" She stated on the verge of hyperventilating as more time passed. Why haven't they called yet?

"I'm sure your dad is trying everything he can to make sure he gets back to you Elena. He loves you like crazy. He'd do anything for his family." Jeremy reassured her as he pulled her into his arms for a side-arm hug.

"And that's exactly what got him into this mess in the first place!" She managed to get out before her sobs overtook her.

She couldn't take the thought of her dad being dead. It was unthinkable...he was invincible; a hero among mortal men. She could handle that he's out risking his life day in and day out to save people (and she loved him all the more for it) because he always came out of it on top in the end but this was different. This time he had a one way ticket downstairs and no one had found a way to stop it yet.

So she waited...and waited for any word on whether or not their last attempts were successful or not and she really hoped they were. For her own sanity she hoped they were successful because she didn't know what she'd do if she got the news that her father was truly dead.

RING.

RING.

She felt her brother stiffen as he continued to hold her, his arms tightening around her as if he were afraid that she would fall if he didn't hold on to her.

Elena could hear muffled voices from down the hall, mainly her mother's (adopted or not, Elena viewed her as her mother), but it was the distinct sound of the phone dropping to the hardwood floor, followed by muffled gasp that had caused the new set of tears to start falling down her cheeks as she buried her face into the crook of Jeremy's neck as he continued to rock her while whispering soothing comments into her ear.

But none of it mattered. While she would appreciate his comfort later, at the moment, none of it mattered.

Her mother's reaction was all the confirmation that she need.

Dean Winchester, her father, was dead.

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A/N #1: So what do you think? Obviously this has to deal with Dean's deal (trading his soul for Sam's, bringing him back to life) coming due at the end of Supernatural's season 3 finale. I don't know why but I couldn't get the thought of Elena grieving for Dean like this out of my head.

Back Story: Alright so in my mind Dean and Isobel are Elena's biological parents (apparently their birth years are pretty close to each other's so why not?). I had it that Dean and Isobel met during a hunt, they helped each other out…one thing led to another and nine months later Elena was born. Dean didn't find out about Elena until 6 months after she was born when he got a call from John Gilbert (who Isobel confided in about Dean before she disappeared). From then on, he would visit Elena periodically (like John Winchester did with Adam Milligan on Supernatural BUT eventually Elena was told the truth about her paternity and about what her father and uncle did for a living) while the Gilberts raised her and protected her from the supernatural world as best they could (since the Gilberts were hunters in a way yet not as active as the Winchesters had become). Dean tries as best he could to be the best father for Elena but all that matters to her is that he's in her life.

A/N #2: I also want to say thank you to all the readers for this 'story' and a special thanks to Ghostwriter and Enx2103 for leaving me a review. It truly means a lot to me that you guys are giving this a shot so thank you!

Coming Up Next: Nikita Challenge

Originally Published: Oct. 23, 2011