AN: The following chapter is a montage of various moments over the next month starting at Christmas and ending late January. Enjoy and don't forget to review!
Christmas was a somber occasion. The girls weren't their usual happy selves no matter how hard the boys tried they couldn't get the girls to crack a smile. They thought with Christmas they might cheer up but they were sadder than ever and were refusing to get out of bed. The boys tried everything to try and coax them downstairs, they even made pancakes for breakfast and played Christmas music which made Dean flinch with every beat.
"Come on girls you wanted Christmas so get up and celebrate it" Dean yelled from downstairs.
"Not helping Dean" Sam yelled back as he headed upstairs to try and get the girls up again. As Sam approached the girl's room he could hear muffled voices, so he decided to sneak to their room so they wouldn't hear him coming. When he reached the door he quietly leant against it.
"You know we can hear you, Sam" Samantha said.
"Yeah, you are horrible at sneaking" Beth said. Sam opened the door smiling.
"Of course he can't sneak, have you seen the size of him?" Jess added and couldn't help but smile at her comment and neither could the other girls.
"You girls coming downstairs? We'll put Castiel on the tree" Sam said
"If you're lying I will kill you" Beth said being the first one to get up. Sam smiled and only left the room once all the girls had either got up or been dragged out of bed.
"Are there still pancakes?" Samantha yelled downstairs.
"Yes" Sam yelled back upstairs to them. The girls ran downstairs only to run into Castiel at the bottom of the stairs
"Ahh shit Cas" Beth yelled running into him
"Don't swear in front of an angel of the Lord" Jess said hitting Beth on the shoulder.
"Ah shit sorry, fuck, shit, bugger, sorry" Beth said quickly "I'm uhm gonna go get pancakes now" she said walking to the kitchen. The girls laughed and followed Beth into the kitchen where Bobby and Dean were eating their pancakes.
After the girls had finished their pancakes and properly said hello to Castiel without swearing at him, they all sat in the library.
"Hey, Cas come here a minute" Dean asked Castiel standing in the kitchen. Castiel walked over to Dean "you got the stuff?" Castiel nodded pointing to the large tree, where many objects had been wrapped in Christmas wrapping. Dean frowned confused as to why they were wrapped.
"You said that it was their Christmas presents" Castiel explained. Dean smiled and walked into the library and sat on the floor by Sam.
"Hey, hey, guys" Jess said elbowing Beth "Christmas with an angel" Jess joked gesturing to Castiel. Everyone laughed and looked at Castiel, who smiled understanding the joke, which made everyone else laugh some more.
The boys were happy to see the girls finally up and smiling and laughing, but they could still see the sadness in their eyes. Today was their attempt to really cheer them up and they hoped that this gift would cheer them up. They hated to admit it, but they cared for the girls; their usually happy and somewhat annoying personalities made for a nice break from the crap in their lives. The boys did not want to see that fade and so they thought this might cheer them up.
"Well there's your presents" Dean said gesturing to the presents under the tree. The girls looked at each other shocked, they weren't expecting presents and weren't quite sure what to do with the pile of badly wrapped presents under the tree.
"You got us presents?" Beth asked shocked
"Yea well we felt bad so..." Dean trailed off not knowing what to say. The girls looked at each other again before going to the tree and pulling out a present each. They all slowly unwrapped them unsure of what the boys could have gotten them. Each present was a bag full of stuff. The girls looked at the bags confused, where had they seen these before.
"I have a bag like this at home" Beth said looking at the bag "this is my bag from home!" she concluded excitedly once she had opened it to reveal stuff she had left in New Zealand. Jess and Samantha had turned to Beth as she said this and once she had finished looked down at their bags excitedly opening them pulling out clothes and other things they couldn't take with them when on the run. They started opening other presents and pulling out more clothes, jewellery, shoes, books, CD's, makeup and a couple of photos of the three of them at birthday parties and other times.
"My belt!" Jess yelled hugging the belt to her chest and lying on the floor "Oh I've missed you"
"Make up! Omg my eyebrow game can be strong again" Beth yelled causing confused looks from the boys. The girls were looking down at all of their old belongings smiling. This was the best gift they could have gotten. Samantha stood up running over to Dean and hugging him.
"Thank you!" Samantha said hugging Dean. At first he was a little shocked before he hugged her back.
"Group hug!" Jess yelled running over to Samantha and Dean practically diving on them
"I'm just gonna hug Sam and not die" Beth said shaking her head and the pile on the floor that was Dean, Samantha and Jess.
"Well Cas did all the leg work" Sam said. The three girls turned and looked at Castiel smiling before running at him yelling thanks and you're the best and other things like that. Castiel looked shocked over at the boys his arms straight by his side as the three girls hugged him, Sam, Dean and Bobby laughed gesturing to him to hug them back which he awkwardly did patting their shoulders. The boys laughed at Castiel's awkwardness as did the girls. Once they had finished thanking everyone they were sat on the floor going through all of their stuff.
"Laptops!" Jess yelled suddenly pulling three laptops out from under the tree.
"They were well hidden" Beth said taking her black laptop covered in stickers. "Now we just need internet and we'll never bother you again" the girls laughed opening their laptops and turning them on.
"Vampire Academy!" Samantha yelled suddenly looking at her desktop background. "Shadow kiss came out in November!"
"To the library" Beth joked "So many YouTube videos to catch up on Omg" She exclaimed looking at her desktop background of Amazing Phil.
"Bobby do you have wireless?" Jess asked
"No, and I don't want you idjits running my internet bill through the roof" Bobby replied angrily
"But Bobby!" all three girls whined at once
"No!" He yelled back. The girls frowned for a moment before going back to their laptops looking at old photos and other things they had saved on their laptops.
…...
The girls had sat around laughing and smiling with the boys for the rest of the afternoon. They were so happy to have their things back and Sam and Dean were just glad they weren't moping in bed. Their idea had worked; they just hoped it would last. As a thank you to the boys the girls had decided to cook dinner, which they were currently doing. Dean, Bobby and Castiel were talking in the study about whether they thought the girls had enough training to protect themselves and maybe go on a hunt, as they couldn't stay with Bobby all the time and the boys were getting fed up of being in the house, even if it was a nice break, they needed to find a way to stop Lucifer from rising. Sam was sitting on the front steps thinking about the past monthsince Castiel showed up in the motel room with the three teenage girls. He was obviously very worried about their safety in the beginning. Three teenage girls could barely look after themselves, but they seemed to have learnt and done well to live as long as they did. The girls tended to be happy mostly, although they fighted all the time it never seemed to ruin their friendship. Having two Sam's in the house was very annoying, they could have called her Samantha but obviously Sam has always been her nickname and so it was habit. But Beth and Jess seemed to enjoy purposefully confusing him and their friend when yelling out Sam. Although they could be rather annoying, Sam felt bad for them, they had been moved off to another country and found out they were daughters of Lucifer and had to live with strange men. It can't have been easy for them; but the boys never thought about the fact their parents and family might be dead. Of course they didn't know how it happened although they suspected demons, and the girls couldn't be expected to know the boys had lost their parents too. He thought maybe telling them what happened to their parents would help the girls open up, and not feel so alone. Dean walked out the front door and offered Sam a beer.
"You alright there Sammy?" Dean asked sitting down next to Sam.
"I think we should tell the girls about mum and dad." Sam suggested
"No." Dean spat.
"Dean it might help them open up, they still haven't told us everything and they obviously feel like no one understands what they're going through." Sam argued.
"Not happening Sammy." Dean said standing up and walking back inside. Sam sighed running his hand through his hair.
"Dinners ready!" Samantha yelled from the kitchen. Sam stood up walking inside to the kitchen to see a massive roast dinner being pulled out of the oven. Dean and Bobby walked out of the study to see Beth putting an apple pie into the oven.
"Is that pie?" Dean asked his face lighting up. Beth nodded wiping her hands. "Awesome." Dean said grabbing a plateful of food off Jess. She dished up another plateful for Bobby and Sam while Beth dished up a plateful each for the girls. Samantha was putting dishes in the sink.
They all sat around the table eating their dinner. "This is surprisingly good." Dean said stuffing his face with another mouthful. The girls looked up at Dean and smiled happy they had got his approval. They all looked down to have another mouthful when the oven dinged making them jump.
"I got it." Beth said standing up to go check the pie but tripping over her chair and falling to the floor. "Ow." Beth moaned pushing herself off the floor and running to the oven. "Pies ready!" Beth said pulling it out of the oven.
"Can we finish dinner first?" Samantha moaned.
"Oh kk." Beth said placing the pie on the bench and sitting back down. They finished their dinner and ate their pudding; which Dean rather enjoyed. The rest of the day and night went on with them all laughing and joking around the table. It was the best Christmas the boys had had in a long time.
...
"Happy Birthday!" Beth and Jess yelled jumping on Samantha's bed.
"Go away" Samantha moaned into her pillow
"Come on Sammie!" the girls said pulling her out of bed.
"I hate you guys!" Samantha complained wiping her eyes.
"We know!" Beth and Jess said smiling. Samantha smiled and shook her head at her friends.
"Let's get wasted!" Jess yelled.
"It's eight in the morning" Dean yelled from the other room.
"But Dean Samantha's turning eighteen and it's New Year's Eve!" Jess yelled back.
"Later" Dean yelled back.
...
The girls had been pestering the boys to get them alcohol all day and finally Dean had given in and taken Beth with him because she complained till he would. Jess and Samantha were in the corner of the study on their laptops looking at old photos of the girls from before the demons attacked. Sometimes they would laugh at the stupidity of those times; other times the photos would make them look sad. Sam was sitting on the other side of the study looking through an old lore book occasionally looking up at the girls. He was still considering telling the girls about what happened to his parents. The girls had slowly got more somber since Christmas but had cheered up again today for Samantha's birthday. It was now late afternoon and Dean had been gone for about an hour with Beth. Sam was wondering what was taking so long when he heard the Impala pull up outside. Dean stormed into the house with Beth following behind him smiling.
"I am never go anywhere with her alone ever again." Dean yelled from the kitchen. Beth walked into the study where the girls were giggling.
"Beth what did you do?" Sam asked slightly amused.
"I did nothing, he's just grumpy." Beth whined
"So you were annoying?" Samantha asked
"Yes" Dean yelled walking into the study beer in hand.
"Sorry not sorry" Beth said grinning as she skipped over to where the girls were and sat down joining in looking at photos and remembering those times.
...
After another half hour of looking at photos the girls had decided to start drinking. By now they had each had a few drinks and were more than slightly tipsy. The three girls were sitting on the couch Samantha in the middle.
"Jess we got cake!" Beth turned to Jess whispering loudly over Samantha who could obviously hear her.
"Cake!" Jess whispered back loudly.
"Shhhh we got those candles that keep lighting themselves!" Beth whispered back giggling.
"Dean can we have your lighter?" Jess asked standing up but lost her balance and fell back down giggling.
"No" Dean answered
"Please" Beth said standing up wobbling a bit before she gained her balance. Jess and Samantha stood up too; Beth and Jess grabbing Samantha's arms before she fell over. They were all giggling as they hobbled to the kitchen for cake forgetting about the lighter.
"I'm gonna go help them" Sam said standing up
"Yea good idea" Dean said taking a swig of his beer
...
The girls had eaten their cake and drunk a few more bottles. By this point they were lying in a heap on the floor giggling. The boys were watching over them regretting their decision of letting them drink this much. When suddenly Beth stopped giggling and sat up a look of seriousness on her face.
"I miss my life." Beth said slurring. The other two girls sat up now no longer laughing.
"What do you mean by life?" Sam asked
"Like my cat and bed, my family, even school. I mean I hated that place but it was so much easier than being chased by demons." Beth said waving her bottle around.
"I know right" Jess said. "I mean I was looking forward to going to uni and becoming a singer. I mean I was actually looking forward to something in my life. But now we're like the fucken most wanted people in New Zealand. They think we killed our parents, and now it looks like we've run away making us look more fucken guilty. We can't go home." Jess said sadly.
"I just wanna go home" Beth and Samantha groaned. Sam was intrigued, the girls were opening up in this drunken state; but it felt wrong to get it out of them like this.
"Why do they think you killed your parents?" Sam asked
"Because... Because..." Beth started pointing a finger in the air. "Because our families were having a party at Jess's, yeah? And we were in the house getting the food for the BBQ, yeah, when we heard just fucking screaming, just screaming. And so we ran outside and our parents, they were all being fucking killed by 6 people with fucking black eyes. So much fucking blood, so much blood. So we ran to the police station screaming our parents are dead, but we had fucking blood all over us. And apparently that made us look guilty. Like who the fuck kills their parents and runs to the police station with the evidence all over them, right? Like they just fucking blame who they can. But anyway so we spent the next week in like questioning. The mother fuckers didn't believe us. But they let us go and so we went back to school. People like fucking avoided us and looked at us funny. And then the demons possessed our fuckin teachers, like who the fuck possesses teachers? There are definitely better people to possess than that. And so we ran. For the next like 5 and a half fucking months we ran away from those demons but we kept coming back to Darfield to get things. Like i don't even fucking know how the fuck we lived that long. When Cas fucking found us we had been like fucking attacked at Samantha's and were running through the plantation like why the fuck couldn't he have showed up six months earlier. Then we like show up in your motel room like what the fuck I'm going to sleep" she said as she collapsed on the floor.
"Yeah that" Samantha said lying back down sleepily.
"I'm tired" Jess said lying down with Beth and Samantha. Within minutes they were asleep. Sam and Dean sat there quietly staring at the sleeping girls. They couldn't believe what they just heard. The girls had seen their families slaughtered and then been blamed for their murders.
"We're going to have to tell them Dean" Sam said seriously
"Yeah, yeah" Dean said taking another swig of his beer. "Happy New Year's Sam, girls" Dean said standing and walking upstairs to his room. Sam stared a moment longer at the girls sleeping on the floor before grabbing a blanket, covering them and walking upstairs himself.
...
The next morning the girls woke up still on the floor, their heads pounding, when the nights events came crashing down on them. They had told the boys what happened to them 7 months ago. They had tried to forget that night specifically and the days that followed. When people found out what happened, which wasn't hard as it was one of the biggest murders in New Zealand in a long time, people looked at them differently. Even their old friends, Blair and Melissa, stayed away from them; nobody talked to them, only about them. Everyone stared as they walked past. Now they were worried the boys would look at them differently too. No one had cared for them in months until now, but now the boys knew what happened. None of the girls said anything as they quietly walked up the stairs and crawled into their beds. They didn't have to; they had been friends for long enough to look at one another and know what was going on. When Sam and Dean woke up to find the girls asleep in their beds, they told Bobby what the girls had told them last night. They decided it was best to leave them for the day, as they were most likely hung over. The next day the girls didn't get out of bed either, one day turned into two and suddenly the girls hadn't been out of bed during the day for a whole week. Of course they had heard them get out at night and sneak down to the kitchen. And they brought them food and drinks during the day but they had avoided any eye contact or conversation. The boys had had enough when they burst into their room a week later.
"Girls, we want to help" Sam said nicely sitting on the edge of the bed all the girls had piled up on. "We know what it's like..." Sam started before he was cut off.
"No you don't" Beth said looking at him angrily
"You see our parents were killed by demons too." Sam said sadly ignoring Beth's comment. All the girls looked up at him to see whether he was lying. They could only see sadness on his face.
"So if you girls want to talk, we're here for you." Dean said awkwardly walking into the room instead of standing in the doorway. Sam looked back at him and then turned back to smile at the girls. The girls fully sat up looking at the two boys. They seemed to genuinely care.
"Thanks" Samantha said a small smile on her face.
"I'm sorry about what I said" Beth said looking down.
"Don't mention it" Sam said smiling when Beth looked back up.
"You girls want some breakfast?" Dean asked
"Pancakes?" Jess asked
"Why not." Sam said smiling as he got up. "We leave in five" Sam said as he got up and left with Dean following behind him closing the door. The girls quickly got dressed and ran down the stairs and piled in the impala.
...
Several weeks had passed since New Year's. The girls had started to cheer up again but they never talked about what happened to their parents and the boys didn't bring it up either. They had gone back to training and teaching the girls all they knew on lore and how to defend themselves. They taught them how to use a gun, a knife, how to make rock salt bullets. They taught them how to draw devils traps and other sigils. One day they took the girls to a tattoo parlour to get the anti-possession symbol tattooed on their wrists. They had taught them most of what they knew and decided it was time for a hunt. The girls were sitting around the kitchen table eating breakfast when Sam and Dean walked in.
"Morning" Sam said smiling at the girls. They looked up from their breakfast.
"Morning" they replied in sync.
"Creepy" Dean said pulling out a seat and sitting down.
"So girls Dean and I decided we think you're ready to go on a hunt." Sam said also taking a seat. The girls looked at him a mixture of terror and excitement on their faces.
"Where?" Jess asked before taking the last bite of her eggs on toast.
"Fairfax, Indiana" Dean answered.
"Truman High School, student drowned another student in the girls toilets and claimed to be possessed." Sam added. The girls became more terrified at this; that could mean demons. They had been lucky so far, the demons hadn't seemed to find them since they left New Zealand, but if word got out they were in America, the demons could be back on their asses.
"Don't worry" Sam said "we will be there. Now go pack a bag. Looks like you're going back to school." This caused the girls to groan as they stood up and ran upstairs to pack their bags. Once they were done they ran downstairs, called out a goodbye to Bobby and followed the boys out to the Impala.