The friend from Uni.

A quiet day.

It's weird ageing if you think hard enough about it. In all honesty, our New Years in reality is our birthday since it's been a whole year around the sun. Strange how crazy my last few were. 2004; there was that fair ground mishap, 2005; me and Dean got his brother from Uni, 2006; Shawn threw the birthday party for me and Peter.... Who I punched by accident, and this year, me and Spencer just spent the night in. Felt weird with nothing going even slightly wrong. But I guess it works in the end. Getting to feel what it's like for it to be normal. I mean, being normal isn't what I am known for. Thinking back to it.... The last time we had any normality was two months before me and Peter turned eight..... around the time we last saw mum. But I guess things could be worse.... I could have not meet Spencer and end up like Mike or just be the one to survive from that. I suppose life where we can just sit and relax is good. Which has lead us to here. Watching terrible home movies that we either filmed ourselves or family did.

I was refilling the popcorn bowl while Spencer put a new tape in.

"Ok. Nice to meet you all, I'm Ashley Harper." The tv spoke making me panic what he put in.

I quickly rushed to the lounge to try and stop the tape before it revealed too much.

"If you're seeing this video, it means I've gone missing like my mother. Or I was cleaning and don't fucken remember what this was. I'm making this video to explain what I've been doing since late 2001. I've become a hunter of sorts, working cases here and there with my significant other.... But things have changed. You see his father went missing in 2005, so we needed to get his brother. This tape is going to tell anyone who watches this, not only the life that I'm involved in but a world you wouldn't imagine existed. This is my story...."

I stopped the tape and turned to look towards Spencer who held a confused look.
"Ash.... What is this?"
"Nothing."
"Ash?"
"It's nothing."
"It doesn't sound like nothing."
"Spencer I can't tell you."
"Why not?"
"Because if I ever got arrested then..... you could become my accomplice just by knowing and I don't want that for you."
"I would never arrest you."
"I know you wouldn't. I also know you'd never tell anyone about what that life is like everything else you know about me. But.... Knowing what I know..... life will never be the same for you."
"Like why you suddenly became superstitious when you were 20?"
"Exactly that."
"Ash. I'm never going to hate you.... Or fear you for what you know. I mean I've met your father, I'm more terrified of him then I am of what you know and we both know why he's no longer your legal guardian or the others. I don't want you to be afraid of having to be your true self from me, even if it means life won't be the same for me anymore. I mean I accepted the fact you dated a criminal even after the fact you found out he was a criminal. I love and care for you, always have and always will. Your my Bunny and I'm your baby face." He told giving me a hug.
"Are you sure? Because there is no escaping it or pretending like it doesn't exist once you do know it."
"I'm sure." He told making me let go of him.
"I'm going to quickly grab the popcorn." I told making him nod before going to sit back on the couch.
Once I had everything ready I pressed play for it to continue after rewinding it a little bit.

"This is my story with the Winchesters.... 22 years ago from 2005 in Lawrence Kansas, was a happy family of four. A young woman in a white nightgown walked into a nursery, her name was Mary.... She dies later that night in the same room. In her arms she held her oldest child, Dean Winchester who later becomes my husband. Never go on a drunken bar hoping idea while in Vegas cause that's how we got married. Any who, in the crib was a baby, his name is Sam Winchester. They said night to him as a man stood in the doorway getting Deans attention. That man is John Winchester, he's a bit of a dick later on. Pretty sure he's ok FBI wanted list sorry if your seeing this Spencer, I make friends with criminals easy if I'm being honest, probably cause I grew up surrounded by drug addicts or drug dealers. They joked and everything was of course perfect for them. They said night to Sam one last time before turning the light off and leaving him in his crib. That's the last moment they were all a happy family. Because things don't always last.... I should know. Things went wrong that night. We don't know what happened in the nursery leading up to everything that went wrong. John was woken up in the lounge but not from the tv but from Mary's screams. He rushed towards the nursery to see everything was in order. He figured he dreamt the scream, it was just a bad nightmare. Of course Sammy was now crying in his crib so he went to comfort his child. While he did so, something dark had dripped next to  the baby and when he checked two more drops had landed on his hand..... it turned out to be blood. John looked up at the roof to find Mary was sprawled across the ceiling with her nightgown now being stained red from her blood at the stomach. He cried for her though it didn't matter.... She was dead the moment she got out of bed. He was frozen to his spot and only snapped out when Sam began to wail. He quickly rushed Sam out of the room and ran into Dean in the hallway. He questioned the noise of course but John didn't answer just gave him Sam and told him to take him outside as fast as he can and to not look back. As Dean rushed out with Sam, John went back for Mary. There was no point in trying to save her at that point honestly, the flames took over the room and she would have no longer been visible. Dean of course made it out of the house holding onto Sammy. He turned back to look at Sams window to see it was lit red and gold from fire. John thankfully made it outside and scooped his sons into his arms and carried them to safety before the fire exploded out of Sams nursery window. From that night not only did John vow to hunt down whoever or I'll say whatever did that and kill them, but Dean also vowed to look out for Sam as best as a big brother can. One night turned a happy family into a broken one. This story is not a happy one I know. But without it, then we wouldn't have gone to where we were today. For not all stories begin with a happy beginning, but most actually start with the protagonists going though a hard start. For without it.... Is there even a story to be told? Things happened in the middle of course. Sam left the family business, I met Dean and John when I was 20..... Abigail was born and even though she's not my daughter I know exactly how Mary and John felt when Dean and Sam were born. Got married while drunk. Also learnt the supernatural world exists. Every myth or legend you would have heard is most likely true. Ghosts, vampires, yee naaldlooshii which is a skin walker though I don't like calling them that since it's wrong, so I call them skins, everything is real. Monsters exist. Hunters are what we are known as, we hunt these things down, find out how they die and we kill them. Saving people, hunting things, the family business. It's dangerous, I won't deny it. I mean, they don't get paid, they become criminals and people don't know the truth and they shouldn't. If I'm dead it's most likely cause of this job or some Hunter has decided to use me against The Winchesters which is a bad idea because they will fuck shit up, especially Dean. I mean I'm his wife of course he'll fuck everything up if I'm in danger. Of course things changed when John went missing. So me and Dean got into the Impala or as we lovingly call Baby, and we went to pick up Sammy from University on Halloween night.... You think the story I told you was heartbreaking..... wait till you hear the story to do with the Yellow eyed demon."

I paused the video on my face from when I said his name. The air was heavy was silence, and I was worried I had lost Spencer.
"You were married?" He suddenly asked breaking the silence.
"Yeah. You know the criminal boyfriend the ghostfacer dudes said I was dating?"
"Yeah?"
"Dean Winchester."
"Get outta here?!"
"Technically I'm a widow."
"What's that like?"
"Weird. Especially cause he is no longer dead."
"What?"
"He sold his soul and went to hell for like four months."
"The friend in a coma?"
"That's the one."
"So the supernatural world exists?"
"Yep."
"And your a Hunter?"
"I'm an ex-Hunter technically. But yeah."
"Your friend Garth? You said he was a Hunter as well."
"We worked a case together before I met Lucy and Stan."
"What about Gordon?"
"Also a Hunter."
"So all he said about vampires was correct?"
"His specialty was Vampires, who actually huddle in nests. Dead man's blood paralysis then cause it's toxic, and to kill them you cut their heads off."
"Do you turn by being bitten?"
"No it's more blood. Either your blood is mixed or they put some of them in your mouth."
"I have so many questions."
"I can answer as many as I can."
"I know I should be freaked out by this but I'm also very very intrigued by it all."
"Thank you." I told making him give me a confused look.
"Why?"
"Because you are staying by my side. I was scared of losing you if you found out about this side of my life."
"I can see why. I understand your fear, but I will help you through all this and we can talk about how to help protect my place so I don't die like Mary did." He told making me hug him.
"I'm so glad I met you all those years ago." I told him making him hold onto me tightly as well.
"I am as well."