Authoress Note: Hello and welcome to Chapter 5 of I'm No Good. I hope you all liked the last chapter. I'm now going to try to stray away from the written script for this chapter and hopefully it will please the readers with this chapter. Without further ado Chapter 5.
Chapter 5
Could Be Worse
Andi awoke to the sound of water running. She stretched out and slowly got up off of the couch.
Dean opened the door. "Andi. Sam, come on, zip it up. Let's hit the…" Dean looked at Sam sensing that there was something wrong. "...road. What?"
Sam breathed heavily and blinked a few times.
Andi looked at Sam with a worried gaze. She had never seen Sam like this and it actually scared her of what he could've dreamed of this time.
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Dean drove down the dark two-laned road with the radio playing. Dean looked over at his brother out of the corner of his eyes. "I don't know, man, why don't we just chill out, think about this."
Sam shut the radio off and turned his head looking at his brother. "What's there to think about?"
Andi pursed her lips together as she put her cigarette out the window before taking another drag of it. She blew the smoke out of her lungs knowing why Dean was having a bit of a panic attack with the whole thing of Sam's choice.
"I just don't know if going to the Roadhouse is the smartest idea." Dean said, pursing his lips together. He didn't want anyone to know about Sam's little gift because in all honesty it scared him that Sam had them. After all it was his job to protect his brother and he couldn't do that if they were at the Roadhouse.
"Dean, it's another premonition. I know it. This is gonna happen, and Ash can tell us where." Sam explained why they were going.
"Yeah, man, but…"
"Plus it could have some connection with the demon. My visions always do." Sam said letting out a soft breath.
Andi looked at the back of Sam's head and a wave of guilt washed over her. She wished that she could help Sam, but it was impossible thanks to him not wanting to worry her. He always brushed it off when she asked, and that was something that hurt.
"That's my point. There's gonna be hunters there. I don't know if, if, if going in and announcing that you're some supernatural freak with a demonic connection is the best thing, okay?" Dean complained looking at his brother.
"So I'm a freak now?"
Andi bit her lower lip. Dean should have chosen his words more carefully. Sam didn't need that over his head.
Dean slapped Sam on the thigh. "You've always been a freak." Dean smiled weakly and turned his attention back to the road.
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Dean, Andi, and Sam walked into the Roadhouse and passed two men who sat at a table cleaning their guns.
Dean almost ran right into Jo which caused her to stop and smiled at the eldest Winchester.
"Just can't stay away, huh?" Jo questioned with a smile cocking her hip a little bit.
"Yeah, looks like. How you doin', Jo?" Dean questioned with a smile of his own.
"Where's Ash?" Sam asked hurriedly. He wanted to try and get this out of the way.
"In his back room."
Sam brushed past her. "Great."
"And I'm fine…"
"Sorry, he's, we're... kind of on a bit of a timetable." Dean apologized to her before following his brother.
Jo looked at Andi who remained with her. "Is everything okay with them?"
Andi took a soft breath rubbing her mouth softly. "They will be…"
Jo gave Andi a concerned look. "You don't sound so sure of that."
Andi let out a breath and shook her head. "I think that they'll need to be with one another. Try to figure out this on their own… whatever it may be that Sam's having an issue with."
"And you're okay with that?"
Andi looked at Jo. She took a soft breath. "I'm going to have to be Jo."
Jo touched Andi's shoulder lightly. "I'm sure mom would love the help around here."
Andi smiled weakly. "I would love to help out." She said softly.
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Jo pressed a few buttons on the jukebox there and REO Speedwagon 'Can't Fight This Feeling' began to play. Jo began to carry the tray to the bar and set it down in front of where Andi was working behind the bar. Jo caught his eyes as Andi moved the tray. "What?" She asked, looking at Dean like he was crazy for staring at her like that.
"REO Speedwagon?"
"Damn right REO. Kevin Cronin sings it from the heart."
"He sings it from the hair. There's a difference."
Andi let out a scoff as she began to wash the mugs that Jo had brought to her.
"That profile you've got Ash looking for?"
"Hmm."
"Your mom died the same way, didn't she? A fire in Sam's nursery?" Jo questioned as she looked at Dean with a worried gaze.
"Look, Jo, it's kind of a family thing."
"I could help."
Andi looked at Jo.
"I'm sure you could. But we've got to handle this one ourselves. Besides, if I ran off with you I think your mother might kill me."
Ellen looked up from cleaning some of the other glasses looking up at him which caused Dean to smile nervously.
Andi leaned forward across the bar. "Nice Dean. You pretty much painted a target on your back now."
"You're afraid of my mother?" Jo questioned raising a brow.
"I think so."
Sam came rushing up behind Jo. "We have a match. We've gotta go."
"All right, Jo. See you later."
Sam looked over at Andi. "Are you coming?" He asked with a curious gaze.
Andi swallowed the lump in her throat. She didn't want to make Sam feel bad by her not going. She dropped the dish rag she had in her hand on the bar. She leaned over and looked Sam in the eyes. "Sorry, Sam," Andi said apologetically. "I think this is something that you and your brother need to do together. You don't need me there."
Sam sucked a breath in through his teeth. "Are you sure? That you don't want to go with us?"
Andi reached up and touched Sam's cheek softly. "I'm sure." She said softly. "You can tell me when you get back. Or call me over the phone."
Sam turned his head and pressed a soft kiss to the palm of her hand. "Be careful."
Andi let out a soft chuckle as she looked down. "You should be the one that's careful. You're going out and I don't know what will happen."
Sam slowly pulled away from her. "We'll be back before you know it."
Andi smiled softly. "I know."
Sam turned towards his brother and began to walk out of the Roadhouse together.
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"Every premonition I've had, if they're not about the demon they're about the other kids the demon visited. Like Max Miller, remember him?" Sam explained to his brother as they drove to the place where his premonition was pointing him to go.
"Yeah, but Max Miller was a pasty little psycho." Dean remarked. He knew that Max tried to kill him and Andi both when Sam was locked in one of the closets.
"The point is he was killing people. And I was having the same type of visions about him. And now it could be happening all over again with this Gallagher guy."
"How do we find him?" Dean questioned as he gripped the wheel.
"Don't know. No current address, no current employment. He still owes money on all his bills - phone, credit, utilities…"
"Collection agency flags?"
"None in the system."
"They just let him take a walk?"
"Seems like it. There's a work address from his last W-2, about a year ago. Let's start there."
Dean let out a soft scoff. "Shall we talk about Andi?"
Sam looked over at his brother with his brows furrowed in confusion. "W-what about her?"
Dean shrugged his shoulders. "You seemed a bit down when she didn't come with us." Dean said as he kept his eyes on the road.
Sam's cheeks colored. "What no… I guess she wanted some time away from us…"
Dean rolled his eyes. "I'm sure that's the case. Just tell the truth… you're bummed out that she didn't come because you're starting to fall for her."
"Dean… please… can we not talk about this…"
Dean hummed as he looked over at his brother. "Why don't you get something for her."
Sam looked at his brother with wide eyes.
Dean let out a breath. "Do I have to do everything for you Sammy?"
Sam's cheeks flushed and he cleared his throat. "I… no."
"Get her some jewelry… girls like that… and I'm pretty sure I've seen Andi wearing a few pairs of earrings. So you should give it a shot." Dean offered with a small smile teasing his younger brother.
Sam gave his brother a look. He knew Dean was teasing, but it was something that he couldn't admit to his brother that he was slowly beginning to fall for her or at least he thought he was.
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Andi took a soft breath as she went back to helping Ellen behind the bar.
"They'll be alright you know." Ellen spoke up.
Andi looked over at the older Harvell woman. She swallowed the lump in her throat. She nodded her head softly. "I do worry."
"And that's okay to worry about them...you three have been attached at the hip for over a year of hunting together."
Andi nodded her head softly as Ellen talked, she knew that Ellen was fishing for information of why she didn't go or what was worrying her.
"Andi…" Ellen said, causing the young woman to turn her head to look at the older woman. "What's wrong? You always seemed so excited to go on a hunt with those boys. What's causing you to stop now."
Andi leaned against the table. "It's nothing." She lied softly.
Ellen gave her a look which caused the young woman to sigh. "You know better than to lie to me."
Andi rubbed her face softly. "I worry about them… but this hunt Sam needs Dean… he doesn't need me…"
"The way he looks at you… I'd say it's the other… he wanted you to go…"
"I'll just be disappointed." Andi let out a breath. "As my mother has been lurking around lately."
"You're mother, Ana?"
"She wants me to come home and quit playing hunter…"
"She worries about you I'm sure."
Andi let out a soft breath as she rested her head on her hands. "I know she worries, but I'm not that little girl any more that she thinks I need protecting… she has to come to realize I'm not the person she is… I'm a hunter."
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Andi laid on her bed that she was using at Ellen's place. Her phone began to ring and she slowly picked it up. She saw it was Sam calling her. She brought the phone up to her ear. "Hey Sam."
"Hi Andi… Hope I didn't wake you…"
"You didn't Sam." Andi said softly as she sat up. "How's the case going hunting for that kid?"
Sam let out a soft sigh.
"Sam?"
"I couldn't…"
"You couldn't do what Sam?" Andi asked softly, worrying about flooding her being.
"The guy, Dr. Jennings… I couldn't save him."
"Sam… listen to me… you can't save everyone." Andi said softly.
"I had him saved, Andi…"
"He still died… it wasn't your fault…"
"He walked out in front of a bus…"
Andi swallowed the lump in her throat. "You'll be able to figure it out, Sam… I promise… I'm just a phone call away…"
"I know… I'll call you later…"
"Be safe."
"I will Andi."
Andi let out a soft breath as she hung up her phone. She knew that Sam was pretty shaken up. And it took a lot to shake him up. She was beating herself up for not going, but the two of them needed time without her on a hunt.
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Dean put his hand on Sam's back.
"I kept him out of the gun store. I thought he was okay. I thought he was past it, at least… I should have stayed with him."
"Hey… it's not your fault." Dean said softly. "You call Andi?"
"Yes…" Sam said softly. "I did. She said this wasn't my fault…"
Dean patted Sam's back lightly. "And she's right. You should listen to her… and you should try to get her something nice."
"Dean." Sam warned.
"I'm telling the truth Sammy. She's helping you out more than you realize."
Sam let out a soft scoff. "Will you stop making such a big deal about it?"
"I'm not… I'm just stating… you have fallen for her."
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Dean pulled up in the Impala and Sam and Andy stood up while Dean got out of the car. "Victim's name was Holly Beckett, forty-one, single."
"Who is she?" Sam questioned looking at Andy.
"Never heard of her."
"Called Ash on the way over here; he came up with a little something. Apparently Holly Beckett gave birth when she was eighteen years old, back in 1983. Same day you were born, Andy." Dean explained to Sam and Andy. "And Andrea is working on a few other things to see what she can find out."
Sam nodded his head. "Andy, were you adopted?"
"Well, yeah." Andy stated as if it wasn't a big deal.
"You were? And you neglected to mention that?"
"Never really came up. I mean, I, I never knew my birth parents, and, and like you said my adopted mom died when I was a baby - do you, do you think this Holly woman could actually be my m-"
"I don't know. I tried to get a copy of the birth records and so did Andrea, but they're hard copies only, sealed in the county office." Dean said softly.
"Well, screw that." Andy said, looking at the brothers.
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Andy came over to Sam and Dean once everything ended with his twin brother. "She won't even look at me."
"Yeah, she's pretty shaken up." Sam said softly looking at Andy.
"No, it's, this is different. It's, uh, I never, I never used my mind on her before. Before last night. She's scared of me now."
"Hey, Andy, I hate to do this, but um, we have to get out of here. Here. I wrote down my cell. You don't have to be alone in this, all right? If anything comes up, just call me up."
"Wha- what am I supposed to do now?"
"You be good, Andy. Or we'll be back." Dean warned the young man as the two of them began to walk away.
"Looks like I was right."
"About what?"
"Andy. He's a killer after all."
"No, he's a hero. He saved his girlfriend's life, he saved my life."
"Bottom line, last night, he wasted somebody."
"Yeah, but he's not a foaming-at-the-mouth psycho. He was just, he was pushed into that."
"Weber was pushed too, in his own way. Max Miller was pushed. Hell, I was pushed by Jessica's death."
"What's your point, Sam?" Dean questioned looking at his brother.
"Right circumstances, everyone is capable of murder. Everyone. You know, maybe that's what the demon's doing. Pushing us. Finding ways to break us."
"Sam, we don't know what the demon wants, okay? Quit worrying about it." Dean said, shaking his head thinking his brother was going a bit overboard on the whole thing.
"You know, I heard you before, Dean, when Andy made you tell the truth. You're just as scared of this as I am." Sam said softly. "I'm sure if Andi was here… she would be just as scared as us…"
"That was mind control! I mean, it's like, like, that's like being roofied, man, that doesn't count."
"What?"
"No. I'm, I'm calling do-over."
"What are you, seven?"
"Doesn't matter. Look, we've just gotta keep doing what we're doing, find that evil son of a bitch and kill it."
"Yeah, I guess."
"And with Andi back with us hunting… none of this bullshit of her being alone at the Roadhouse." Dean's cell phone began to ring. He answered it. "Hello? Ellen. What's going on? Yeah, we'll be right there."
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Sam and Dean were sitting at the bar while Ellen was behind it.
Andi looked over at the brothers with a worried look on her face.
"Jo?"
Jo looked up at her mom. "Hm?"
"Go pull up another case of beer."
"Mom…"
"Now. Please." Ellen leaned on the bar in front of the boys. "So. You uh, you want to tell me about this last hunt of yours?"
Dean looked up at Ellen. "No. Not really. No offense, it's just kind of a family thing."
"Not anymore." Ellen said, dropping a stack of papers onto the bar in front of the brothers. "I got this stuff from Ash. Andrew Gallagher's house burnt down on his six month birthday, just like your house. You think it was the demon both times, don't you? You think it went after Gallagher's family?" Ellen questioned.
"Yeah, we think so."
"Sam…" Dean said, looking at his brother.
"Why?"
"None of your business."
"You mind your tongue with me, boy. This isn't just your war, this is war. Now, something big and bad's coming and it's coming fast, and their side holds all the cards. Now, at best all we got is us. Together. No secrets or half-truths here. You're dragging Andrea into this and we deserve to know what's going on."
Andi pursed her lips together knowing that Ellen was indeed correct about the whole thing. They were going into a war and they had no idea what they were walking into.
"There are people out there, like Andy Gallagher, like me. And um ... we all have some kind of ability."
"Ability?"
Dean rolled his eyes uncomfortably about the whole thing that Sam was telling Ellen.
Andi bit her lower lip knowing what Sam's ability was.
"Yeah. Psychic ability. Me, I have, um, I have visions. Premonitions. I don't know, it's different for everybody. The demon said he had plans for people like us."
"What kind of plans?"
"We don't really know for sure."
"These people out there, these psychics - are they dangerous?"
"No. Not all of them." Dean said, beating Sam to the punch.
Ellen looked at Sam.
"But some are. Some are very dangerous."
Ellen looked at Andi.
Andi nodded her head softly remembering what had happened back a little while ago with Max using his gifts holding a gun to her and Dean. It was seared into her brain like there was nothing that she was going to be able to do.
Ellen looked at the brothers. "Okay, how many of them are we looking at?"
"We've been able to track a clear pattern so far. They've all had house fires on the night of the kid's six month birthday."
"That's not true."
"What?"
Andi looked at Sam in confusion wondering what he had meant by that. Was he hiding something from them?
"Weber? Or Ansen Weems, or whatever his name is - I looked at his files, and there was no house fire. There's nothing out of the ordinary."
"Which breaks the pattern. So if there's any others like him, there'd be nothing in the system. No way to track 'em all down." Ellen said, looking at the brothers.
Andi rubbed her hands together nervously. "So we don't know how many of them are really out there…"
"Jo honey?"
"Yeah?" Jo questioned her mom from behind everyone.
"You'd better break out the whiskey instead."
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Andi stood outside with a cigarette lit as she looked up at the night sky. The brothers were inside of the Roadhouse drinking and she didn't have it in her to drink whiskey. Her mind was clouded with thoughts of what had been going on. She hadn't even noticed that Sam had come out of the roadhouse to check on her.
"Those things will kill you sooner or later." Sam spoke, causing the young woman to turn and face him.
Andi gave him a look. "Well there are other ways out there that aren't just hunting." Andi brought her foot up and put the cigarette out on the bottom of her boot. She lowered her foot letting out a soft breath. She ran her hand through her hair. "So are you okay with everything that has happened?" She asked softly as she looked at him dead in the eyes. She truly was worried about Sam and didn't know how Sam was going to deal with his gift for too much more.
Sam offered her a weak smile. "I'm going to have to be." He said softly.
Andi shook her head. "Now that's where you're wrong Sam… you may think that you need to be okay with something that is going on, but you don't have to be…"
Sam put his hands into his pockets. He looked at her with his lips pursed together. "You seem to know what you're talking about."
Andi gave him a small weak smile. "I've been in your place a few times. Can't say it's the easiest place to be, but I can tell you one thing… it's always good to ask for help." She slowly went inside of the Roadhouse.
Sam gave her a small generous smile. "Andi…"
Andi stopped in her tracks and she slowly turned and faced Sam. "Yeah?"
Sam pulled his hands out of his pockets and one hand had a wrapped gift in it. "I got you something while we were out…"
Andi blinked a few times. "Oh… you didn't have to." She said softly as she slowly came over to him.
Sam handed her the gift. "I did."
Andi slowly opened the gift. She opened the box and let out a soft gasp. It was a black leather choker with a purple gemstone hanging down from it. "Oh Sam… it's beautiful."
Sam shyly rubbed the back of his neck. "I wasn't sure if you would like it or not."
Andi grabbed Sam's arm. "No… it's perfect." Andi leaned up onto her tip toes and placed a soft kiss on his cheek. "Thanks Sam."
Sam cleared his throat shyly. "You're welcome Andi."
Andi smiled softly. "I'm here for whenever you'll need to talk." She said softly. "And that will always be an open door." She slowly moved away from him and towards the Roadhouse. Her fingers lightly touched the necklace that Sam had gotten her.
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This is the end of Chapter 5. I hope that you guys enjoyed this. Please leave a review and let me know what you think. Also please let me know who you would like to have Andi with. Hopefully I'll have the next part up soon. Until next time guys.