A Hunters Heart

Packing for A Trip

Hey guys so sorry that i havent updated in awhile. School stsarted and i have just been so busy! Anywhoo enjoy this chapter even though its kinda boring sorry
AL&AD

When Lexi got to her room, she prepared her duffle bag. Going through a mental check list, she was forced to consider what she might need for this mission. Ok, she thought, It's a two day trip just to get there. Hopefully, it won't take long to get a little tooth, so... Pj's? In the middle of her thought process, Lexi was interrupted by a tall hunter in her doorway.
"Knock knock!" Sam said.
"Hey! What's up? I'm almost done packing."
"Cool! Cool," Sam stepped into the room with his hands shoved in his pockets. Lexi looked to him with a curious look on her face.
"What's up?" She asked. He obviously had an ulterior motive for this friendly visit.
"I just wanted to give you a heads up. The tooth that we're supposed to get, it might be protected by a ghost."
"A ghost?"
"The ghost of the nun who it belongs to. Spirits have a way of, how should I say this, being jerks when it comes to their bones."
Lexi laughed at first. It's not like she'd never... oh, shit, "I've never dealt with a ghost before."
"Yeah, I thought you might like a little bit of a warning."
Lexi stood up straighter as she realized what she had gotten herself into. Before she knew what was happening, she was hyperventilating. Sam rushed towards Lexi, who had just dropped herself onto the bed. He knelt on the ground in front of her, trying to console the huntress.
"Don't worry!" he quickly exclaimed, "I'm not gonna let anything happen to you." Lexi looked up at him, touched by his words, "I've dealt with ghosts before. It's nothing I won't be able to handle on my own." Lexi looked at Sam with big green eyes.
"Well," she said, "You won't have to." Sam was obviously surprised. "I'm not useless. I've got enough skills to save the famous Winchesters from an entire nest of vamps..."
"That was not an entire nest! It was... most of a nest."
"Okay," Lexi continued, "The majority of a nest of vamps, then I'm perfectly capable of helping grab some whore nun's moler."
"Alright!" Sam smiled, "I'll tell you everything you need to know on the way there. Meet me by the Impala in half and hour."
"Gotcha!" Lexi stood up to walk Sam out of the room, exhaling deeply once the door was closed.

A half and hour later, Lexi was walking towards the front door. Passing Castiel's room, she saw something she probably shouldn't have. Dean was at Cas's bedside, his eyes were dry. Not like he had been crying, but as if he hadn't slept in days. Castiel lay in the bed in front of him, asleep. He seemed almost comatose as his chest was clearly rising and falling.
As she continued to walk towards the front door, her mind went reeling. Okay, she thought, I'm about to go on my first ghost hunt. Not to mention It'll take more than two days. Alone. With Sam. Lexi wasn't sure of Sam's feelings for her. Hell, Lexi wasn't sure of her feelings for him, but she thought she had felt something. A glimmer of hope in her otherwise dark, vampire-filled, life. There is something there, right? But, if there were something, wouldn't we have talked about the other night? I mean, we swapped entire life stories! He knows my sisters name! Doesn't that mean anything to him?
As Lexi opened the front door to the Bunker, she was snapped out of her thoughts by a chill. It was midday, but there was a storm on the horizon, making the air thick.
"You ready?" Sam hollered
"Yeah," Lexi replied, unsure of herself. Sam lowered the fake bottom of the Impala's trunk and threw his duffle bag in, gesturing for Lexi to do the same.
Before they could leave, Sam and Lexi heard the bunker door open and close. They looked up to see Dean tossing a set of keys to Sam.
"Not a scratch, or so help me Cas, I will kill you."
Something in Lexi clicked into place as she shouted, "Cas!" and ran into the bunker.
She quickly sprinted through the now familiar halls and into the angel's room. Castiel was in the same position he was in earlier, lying on the bed sleeping, chest rising and falling with each breath.
"Cas," Lexi whispered, nudging his arm, but to no avail. She shook him with more force, saying louder, "Cas, wake up!"
The angel quickly straightened, a sharp inhale followed by his head turning so he was facing the ceiling. He then sat up and looked at Lexi with a questioning look.
"Alexis. Can I help you?"
Lexi shuddered at the use of her full name.
"No, actually," she said, suddenly self-conscious, "I thought I might be able to help you." Castiel only turned his head to the side, confused. "We both know that when you looked into my mind, and when I looked into yours, you felt better afterward. I'm about to leave for a hunt and won't be home for a few days, so I thought you could use some mind-juice."
Castiel smiled, "Of course. But, let's make this a bit quicker than last time. I am stronger now."
The angel raised his hand and extended two fingers, touching the center of Lexi's forehead. Lexi could feel a jolt of energy travel throughout her body. From her brain, to her heart, then branching out to each of her limbs as if it were searching for energy in her veins, back to her heart, then up to her mind. The huntress tried to cover up the goose-bumps that appeared on her arms
"Well,"
"Thank you," Castiel ended the awkwardness between them.
"I-I should get going. Sam's waiting for me by the Impala."
Castiel looked down, grinning a bit before saying, "Be good to him,"
Lexi was visibly taken back by this, "What? What do you-"
Honk honk!
Lexi was rudely interrupted by the Impala's horn rushing Lexi to finish.
Castiel's hand rose and flicked towards the door, telling Lexi to hurry. Lexi walked halfway to the door, then turned to the angel, pointing a finger. "This conversation is not over."
Castiel was left to decipher the human speech pattern on his own as Lexi left him with his head tilted.
Lexi rushed to Sam, just in time to interrupt Dean threatening his brother.
"-and no food! If I smell anything funky in there, I will take that pair of suckers you call a-"
"And I'm back!" Lexi stated, stopping Dean from yet another insult. "Sam? Shouldn't we be getting on the road? Oregon is quite a few states over!"
"Yeah," Sam finished, "Definitely. Oh, and Dean?"
"Yeah?"
"Have a fun weekend. Alone. With Cas. Bye!"
And with that, the hunters drove off, leaving a very red-faced Dean behind.