"Gabby, I don't trust him.' Antonio said into his phone as he pulled into the parking lot of the district, "She changed completely in a manner of 12 hours."
'I am sure she is fine." His sister assured him, "She has been in love with Dean since she was 12 and she isn't shy to say it. Even Sam said it when we were out there."
The older Dawson sibling was all too well aware of his sister, Shay, Libby, and Ellie's trip to California to see Sam and how badly it ended up. And for whatever reason he felt more protective of Ellie than he did his own sister or Libby.
"And from what she told me, those boys especially Dean will do anything in his power to protect her."
"She is going to wind up dead sis, and you know it."
"Maybe, but right now just let her live, she deserves at least that." Antonio sighed, he knew that was true, he had heard most of Ellie's life story right from her and his heart went out to her. But at the same time, she was just setting herself up for heartbreak and failure if she kept going after Dean Winchester. Antonio knew guys like Dean Winchester, he had friends who were like him. Kelly Severide before he got with Libby was like that and rarely do men like that change.
"Just worry about catching the guy Tony, I will worry about Ellie." He made a noise of agreement, she was right, Ellie could take care of herself and probably all of them too. But still, it didn't stop him from worrying less about her.
Sam glanced at Ellie who was sitting between him and Dean in the front seat of the Impala, at Dean's insistence, she was toying with the loose thread in her jeans with one hand as she pointed out directions to the diner near the firehouse with the other. He had spent most of the night before trying to piece together why Ellie ended up in Chicago of all places. He would have thought for sure she would end up at Bobby's or at her Aunt Ellen's roadhouse to recover.
Chicago was out of her norm.
It was a big bustling dangerous city where she would be at more risk for demons. Something she shouldn't be ready to hunt. He had found her old journal in a box in the room he was in and scoured it trying to piece together everything. And he realized how much he actually did hurt her when he acted like he didn't know her and told her to get out of his life.
He had tried to live a normal cookie-cutter life with Jess but he hadn't realized until the night before that he missed hunting and that he missed his brother. And he missed Ellie.
She was as much of a part of his life as Dean, Savannah or John were at this point.
"Have you heard from Savannah?" He finally asked causing Dean to slam on the brakes cursing and Ellie to throw her hands out to catch herself before she hit into the radio and dash.
"I actually saw her. I went to New York with Libby and Kelly, she wanted me to see Times Square, and said I was too country to live in Chicago." Ellie huffed with a small laugh. When Libby and Gabby found out that she was born in Kansas and raised in Nebraska and Sioux Falls after her parents died, they wanted to get her used to living in a big city.
"Libby's sister is an ADA in Manhattan and she helped track her down."
She wasn't going to admit that their sister had been serving time at Sing Sing for first-degree murder, that was something that she would have to ease into. She knew both brothers and knew they would want to go out there and try and break her out. Because she had the same thought but she couldn't help but feel that Savannah deserved it. Sam and Dean exchanged a look.
"What aren't you telling us, babe?" Dean asked finally parking the Impala and twisting to look at her and his brother.
"She is in prison. She has charges against her for the first-degree murder of an ADA.' She answered keeping her eyes forward, the last thing she wanted to do was look at them, "Danny, Libby's older brother went with me to see her. She isn't the same Savannah she was."
The two brothers were having a silent conversation over her head.
"Don't even think about it. You would have to be insane to break her out. And it's probably the safest place for her. We know where she is at and that she is safe and that's what matters."
"You're right." Sam finally agreed causing her to smirk and nudge his shoulders with hers. Shaking his head the younger Winchester brother got out of the car and waited for the other two, the sooner they got this all taken care of the sooner they could look for John and the demon that killed Jess.
"Now if y'all would have picked up on that sooner, we wouldn't have been in half the messes we ended up in." She returned as she slid out of the car and waved at a couple of the people in the diner who waved back.
Dean came around the front of the car quickly, glancing in one direction or another looking for the man.
"I don't think he is stupid enough to come out in broad daylight like this."
"You never know." Dean returned settling his arm around Ellie's shoulders. The simple show of affection made her heart flip in her chest. She knew it was because of what was going on with the stalker and not because he wanted to show that affection. Shaking the thoughts out of her head, she reached for the door handle to pull the door open.
"Ellie? Is that you?" A man's voice asked from halfway down the street. All three of them turned and Ellie felt the blood rush out of her face, "Dad?"