Let Me Down Slowly Δ SPN [ 2 ]

chapter forty-five

They found out that Charlie tortured somebody and now they're waiting to find her. They're currently outside a possible victim's house, staking it out, the brothers in the front seat and Evie in the backseat.

"What the hell is kale?" Dean asks after biting into a sandwich.

"A vegetable." Evie answers, not understanding it not being an actual question.

""Anti-authority disorder, clinical depression, violent outbursts."" Sam reads the file from her therapist. "Charlie was, uh..."

"Dude. If a shrink interviewed us at that age-- or Evie-- you think the report would be all kittens and rainbows?" Dean asks.

"With Evie?" Sam ponders. "Maybe."

"You're talking about the kid who got turned demon and then died and has seen more death than any other 10 year old? She's kitten and rainbows?" Dean asks.

"Well, she's still the sweet, little girl she was before. Just... traumatized." Sam says.

"I'm right here, you know." Evie speaks up.

"Charlie's a good kid. There's got to be an explanation for this, man. There's just got to be." Dean says.

They hear a crash and screaming from inside the house.

"Stay here." Sam orders Evie before the brothers rush to the house.

Eventually Evie sees Charlie running out and given she doesn't know the status, she manages to hide in the car. She hears somebody by the car before hearing a stabbing sounds before the person runs off.

Evie gets up and rolls the window down, leaning out of it to see the tire slashed.

Charlie drives away in a large SUV as Dean runs out.

"Charlie! Hey!" Dean calls, rushing to the Impala. He stops from getting in, seeing the tire slashed. "Oh, you son of a bitch."

They hear a car pull up and turn to see Charlie in her yellow VW.

"What's up, bitches?" Charlie asks, but sees their gobsmacked expressions as Sam runs out, his expression matching his brother's and daughter's. "Right. Um, we should probably catch up."

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They're at a bar and Evie and Charlie are sitting across from Dean and Sam.

"There's two of you-- one good, one... bad?" Sam asks and Charlie nods.

"Yeah, what, dick you is some sort of a ninja?" Dean asks.

"She is a badass, yeah." Charlie says.

"O-okay. Hold on. Back up. We were there for Dorothy, Oz, yellow brick road." Sam says.

"I wasn't." Evie mumbles, disappointed she missed all that because Crowley had to turn her into a demon.

"B-but then..." Sam trails off, not hearing Evie.

Dean and Charlie heard her, though, and Dean reaches across the table and ruffles her hair, knowing her mind's going to the demon days.