To Be Normal

Chapter 2

"Alice, I'm getting worried. Dean and Dad are out there, hunting, and now you're gone, who knows where, unsafe. You need to come home. Please."

Alice winced at the thought of Dean, her oldest brother, and Dad possibly out there, searching for her. She closed her phone, leaning against the wall behind her. She heard the speakers announcing that her bus would be the next, so she gathered her things to board the bus, which was pulling in. She sighed, walking towards the bus. As she neared it, a strange sense of foreboding overwhelmed her; something was about to happen. Her hand instinctively reached for the switchblade in her pocket, ready for anything.

Suddenly, a hand clamped down on her shoulder, and she tensed. She slowly opened her switchblade, turning to see who had their hand on her.

She found herself looking at a tall man with green eyes and short blonde hair.

"Hey, little sis," he said, smiling.

"Dean?! What are you doing here? I thought you were on a hunting trip! Wait... did Sam tell you I left?"

Alice was surprised that her oldest brother, Dean Winchester, had found her. She'd done her best to cover her tracks so that neither of her brothers nor her father could find her. She'd been planning to go overseas to England, where she would be sure they would never find her. And yet Dean found her.

"Well, I happened to be passing through here when I saw this familiar hazel colored hair belonging to what looked like a girl your age, I remembered that Sammy had mentioned something about you running away... So, of course I had to check it out," Dean said. He reached his hand to his sister's, where the switchblade was. "Really? Pulling a blade out on your own brother?"

Alice hung her head. "I didn't know it would be you. I thought it was some type of demon or something," she said.

'Although demons don't exist,' she thought.

Dean took the blade from her, and she snatched at it, but Dean smirked, pulling it further away from her. He nodded his head towards the entrance. "Come on, Allie, let's go."
Alice stopped, glaring at her brother for using her childhood nickname. "I'm not going with you," she said.

"Alice, please. It's not safe for you to be on your own. Besides, you're still a minor. One of us has to look after you until you turn eighteen, and then you can do what you want, within reason."

"No, Dean.. I don't want to go with you. Besides, weren't you working on a case before you found me?"

Dean chuckled. "Well, yeah, but when I saw your hazel hair entering the bus station, I decided to abort the case long enough to see if it was you and pick you up," he explained. He took her duffel bag from her, turning. "Come on. We should get to the motel room and then to the police department."

Alice huffed, unable to go anywhere without her duffel bag, so she followed. When they got outside and reached the car, her eyes widened.

"Dean, is this Dad's -"

"Yep. It's Dad's Impala," Dean cut in. "He's letting me use it." He opened the trunk, putting Alice's duffel bag inside. Alice got into the passenger seat, smiling in awe.

"How is Dad letting you use this?" She asked once Dean got in.

"Because I needed a car and he was going to stay where he was for a while."

Alice smiled, slightly happy to be back with her oldest brother. She hadn't seen Dean in two years, and yet he hadn't changed much. He still looked exactly as he did two years before, which seemed a little eerie to her. But it didn't matter. Not anymore. He'd found her before she could get off away from them, and now since she was with him, she was probably going to go on her first hunt. With the brother she hadn't seen in two years.

"So what's the case about?"

Dean hesitated, thinking. "There's a nest of vamps somewhere around here but there's also a shapeshifter, which makes this case a little more difficult."

Alice winced. "Double case? Did you call anyone else in to help out?"

"Nope. But since you're here, I've got backup," dean said, smirking at her.

"What? No, no, no. I'm not an experienced hunter like you. I'm not even a hunter at all. I never wanted to be one. I want to be normal, like my friends."

"Yeah, well, you ran away which gave the demons all the more reason to attack you. I mean, come on, Allie, you're sixteen. What would you do if you were out walking, on your own, and was suddenly confronted by a demon? Or two demons? You need to be with one of us, so you can stay safe. I know being with Sammy kept you safer, not out hunting and all, but from what I hear, you and Sammy had a fight and that's why you ran away. So now you're stuck with me, and sometimes Dad. Got it? You're now a hunter, and you're on your first case."

Alice rolled her eyes, pulling out her phone and earbuds. She put her earbuds in, turning the volume up as she looked out the window.