In Love With A Hunter

Chapter 3: I Had to Fall, To Lose It All

Time Skip || 4 Years

The next couple of years to seemed to drag on for what seemed like ever. As the years went by, the closer Kenzie and the Winchester Boys got. After losing Bobby, it didn't feel like home anymore to her. Dean and Sam knew how hard it was for her considering that he was family to them as well.

After finding out that Sam and Dean's great-grandfather was a part of the Men of Letters as well as their father, discovering the bunker, amongst numerous of other things, all three of them had a lot on their plates.

"Good god, Cas! What the hell?" Kenzie muttered, "What did you do to him?" She peered up at the angel before her.

Cas took in the sight of what he had done. "I had to subdue him or he would have killed you. And Dean would have never forgiven me if I so much as let anything hurt you."

"Oh please, Cas. Since when does Dean care so much about me? Him and Sammy have been distant from me lately. Hell, they won't even answer my calls anymore, but yet when you call, Dean and Sam picks up, first ring." Kenzie scoffed, turning around to head back to the car. The car she had so desperately stolen because for one, she loved cars. And two, it was a black, 1967 Chevy Camaro Z/28.

"They got a lot going on right now, Kenz. I promise you they love you. Especially Dean. He loves you. We can all see the way he looks at you." Castiel said, following after her.

She drove off after Cas got in the passenger seat. "Look, I know you're trying to make me feel better about this whole situation, but you're not helping." She clenched the steering wheel. Cas could see how tense she was.

After she parked her car, Castiel followed her back into the bunker like a lost puppy. She could hear Sam and Dean arguing in the library. She walked right past Dean, ignoring them both the same way they ignored her.

"Kenzie?" Dean called after her, setting the book down. "Kenz?!" He raised a brow, looking at Sam then at Castiel.

"She's upset." Castiel replied.

"Why-" But before Dean could reply, Castiel interrupted him.

"She's mad because you and Sam have been so distant from her lately, dealing with this without her, she's ignoring you the same way you did her." Castiel retorted.

Dean's face changed completely. Sam raised a brow. "He's right, Dean, we have been totally ignoring her. We didn't mean to."

Dean went after Kenzie. Kenzie was leaning against the door frame, on the phone with someone. "And what if I don't?" Kenzie was clearly frustrated. Listening to the conversation, Dean raised a brow.

"How is that protecting Dean?! What about Sam?! If you're going to protect Dean, you're going to protect his brother too. Don't worry about me. I want your word that when this is all said and done, that both of them will be safe and unharmed."

Dean was concerned now. What did he and Sam have to be protected from? And what the hell was Kenzie talking about? And who was she talking to? Dean continued to listen.

Kenzie paced back and forth. "Fine! Fine! I'll do it. Anything to save everyone. Look, this stays between you and me, got it? The last thing I want is Dean and Sam finding out about this deal. And besides, Dean was right. I'm not their family and never will be no matter how hard I try." She listened. "We had a fight. Dean said some things, but at the time, I didn't think he meant them. At least not until it started playing inside my head on repeat, over and over again."

Dean's heart shattered into pieces. What had he done?! She was making a deal with a demon and he knew it. All because of those little words that he had said to her when they got into the argument.

"Yeah, you got a deal." Kenzie found herself, making a deal with a demon. A blood oath. Which means, breaking the oath would send her to hell. As soon as she hung up the phone, she wiped the tears from her cheeks, turning to leave, when she saw Dean standing in the doorway, his hands in his pockets. "Dean?! How long have you been there?" She quickly wiped her eyes.

"Long enough." He said quietly. "Look, Kenz, what I said to you, I didn't mean them. I was tired and angry, but it wasn't because of you. I know what I said hurt you, and I'm sorry. But you making a deal with a demon to-"

"To protect you and Sam." She finished for him. She stood against the wall, her eyes moving away from him, as she closed her eyes, fighting the tears.

Dean came over to her, lifting her chin up with his hand. "Kenz, you didn't have to do that." Dean looked into her eyes.

"Yeah, well, it's too late Dean. At least now, if I die, you and Sammy will be spared." She looked up at him.

He pulled her against him, not wanting to let her go. "Dean? You can't tell Sammy." She added. "Please."

Dean hesitated for a moment. "You're right. He doesn't need to know about this. But what I do want to know is what was the price?"

Kenzie looked at him with those sad eyes. "If I break the blood oath, I'll go to hell." She said, quietly. "And there's no guarantee that I'll come back."

"And how would the oath be broken?" Dean asked, raising a brow.

"If you and Sammy try to save me. If a witch tries to break the oath with a spell." Kenzie explained. "Basically, I have to do whatever the Demon wants. Including killing an innocent person." Tears streamed down her cheeks because she had never taken an innocent life before. And she was doing it so the demon wouldn't kill the man she was secretly falling head over heels for and his brother.