Welcome Home || Im & Dean
Or close enough to it, maybe more. Im really wasn't keeping track at this point. What was the point really? It wasn't as if there was anyone to mourn with, what with Sam off playing house. Hell, last time she'd seen him was a case, a coven in the next town. One had given her a nasty gash in her side, and she'd reluctantly knocked on their door, trying not to drip blood on their welcome mat. He'd patched it up pretty well, but she hadn't stuck around long enough to be a nuisance.
So she drove. Spent day after day tracing the backwoods roads in a four-door truck with peeling paint, slowly gathering a collection of stolen mythology books and empty liquor bottles in the backseat.
Vampire hunt in lower Missouri, that's what she could focus on. Whole mess of them, feeding off of the locals, probably holing up somewhere near the isolated road that wound through the hills. Stopping off at the first hole-in-the-wall motel she found, Im slipped into a room, throwing down the armful of books she'd grabbed from the truck onto the motel bed as she pulled off her jacket. She crossed over to the bed, sorting through them distractedly.
Dean wouldn't have needed books. Hell, he could have listed all the things there were to know about vampires off the top of his head. She shouldn't have to still look up tactics they used, or certain hunting patterns, or anything. Dean wouldn't--
Swallowing, she abandoned that train of thought, forcing herself to push away the lore book on Purgatory, the one that had torn, dogeared pages from the sleepless nights spent leafing through it. It'd been a year. There wasn't anything she could do at this point. Still... Her hand drifted towards it and she picked it up, brows pulling together as she let the pages fall open. There could have been something she'd missed, could have skipped over it when her eyes started to unfocus from lack of sleep or the alcohol, could have just not payed enough attention, could have... Fuck it. Tucking the book under her arm, she ran her hand over red-rimmed eyes and sighed before stepping to the door. She could have missed something in the other books, too, the ones left in the car.
It'd been a year, wasn't there still something she could do? She pulled the door open, jogging to the truck and yanking open the back door and leaning in, cursing as she sorted through the volumes under the drivers seat,