At My Breaking Point

Chapter 4

Chapter 4:

The girls are now fifteen years old.

Dean decided that after the whole incident ten years ago that Dean would not raise Amelia and Skylar like Sam and him were raised. They would not know about hunting for as long as Dean could hold it off. Sure Castiel still came around the house that Dean and the girls lived in, but Dean never told Skylar and Amelia that Cas was an angel of the lord. All Dean's weapons and Sam's books as well as Harley and Emma's hunting material was in the basement of the home.

Dean had a lock on the door so the girls couldn't go down there and look at what was down there. A couple of times Dean had caught Amelia and Skylar trying to pick the lock that lead to the basement. Dean gave them a punishment each time too. He told them multiple times not to try and get into the basement. They were fifteen years old now and they still tried to get down there.

Dean sent them to public school as well when the time came around for them to start school. But old habits die hard and Dean checked the school out before the school year started. Skylar and Amelia were in the tenth grade at the local high school. Since the school wasn't far away the girls walked. Sometimes Dean gave them a ride to the school in the impala. School had been in session for about a month now.

Skylar and Amelia were upstairs in their rooms getting ready for school. Skylar was the first one up so she decided she would go wake up her cousin. She opened Amelia's door and stuck her head in the room to see if Amelia was awake. No such luck, the fifteen year old was still asleep.

"Em?"

"Hmmm"

"Emmie, get your ass up or I go get Dean. We both know what he'll do if he has to wake you up."

Amelia just rolled over, pulling the cover over her head. Skylar walked in Amelia's room, walking over to her cousin's bed. She had a plan.

"Em, get up we're gonna be late"

"Skylar, I really don't give a crap about being late."

Skylar jumped onto her cousin's bed, landing right onto the half-awake teen. Amelia woke up immediately and pushed Skylar off the bed, making her land on the floor. To say that Amelia was mad would be an understatement. Amelia looked down at her cousin on the floor.

"If you ever think about doing something like that again Skylar Marie Winchester, I will hunt you down and kill you. I will make sure my dad never finds out it was me."

"No you wouldn't Emmie"

"Try me, and it's Amelia you ass."

Skylar gets up off the floor and walks back toward the door. But she stops in the doorway and faces her cousin. Amelia looks and sees that Skylar is already dressed, her blonde hair pulled back and her messenger bag against her side.

"Dean said we have to walk today Em. I'm gonna head out early and go visit the meadow, meet me there on your way to school."

Skylar left and Amelia immediately understood once Skylar said she was going to the meadow. When their mothers had died in the accident, Amelia's mother Emma, was burned in the meadow next to the woods behind the house. Skylar's mother, Harley was never found. A body was never recovered from the accident. Skylar went out to the meadow anyway, and would sit for hours, remembering what little time she had spent with her mother.

Amelia didn't like to go out there often. When she did go out there, she would just sit and stare at nothing. Amelia always felt as if her mother abandoned her and her father. But she could never come to blame her mother, after all her mother died for her that night.

Skylar walked down the stairs and into the kitchen only to see her uncle and the family's friend Cas sitting at the table. As always Dean had a cup of coffee in front of him and as always Cas had nothing.

She walked up behind her uncle and quickly hit him in the back. Of course not enough to hurt the hunter, but Dean made a pained face anyway. He slowly turned around to face his niece.

"Do that again Skylar Marie and see what I do"

A look of fear quickly passed over the young girls face, but disappeared as quickly as it came. Skylar saw where Amelia got her threats from.

"Okay, well I'm heading out early and I told Amelia to meet me on the way there."

Dean watched as Skylar walked out the back door of the house. Dean knew where she was going regardless if she had told him or not. He knew Skylar was heading toward the meadow.

Skylar walked on the path that leads to the meadow. She looked over the hill and at the gate, for some reason the small meadow had a little iron fence that went around and a gate at the end of the path. She quietly slipped through the gate and closed it shut behind her. She walked to the middle of the meadow and sat down, putting her bag down next to her. She just sat quietly. Watching as small birds flew overhead. She knew her mom was gone and her dad too. She remembers that night where her dad had come in her room and kissed her forehead as he said he was sorry.

She remembered waking up the next morning to find her father gone.

She heard a rustling in the grass and turned to see nothing there. She stood up grabbing her bag ready to go see what caused the noise, but stopped when she saw Amelia at the gate.

"Come on Skylar we're gonna be late!"

Skylar quickly jogged the gate and slipped through it and closed it tightly as she went to go join her cousin.

"Since when do you care about being late Em?"

"Since now."

The two took off down the path, unaware of the man watching them at the other end of the meadow. His eyes holding sadness and regret.