Secrets in the Hunt (Book 2)

Stupid "Read" Receipt on Phones

I groan as I flop onto the bed the second we walk into the hotel room. I didn't want to go on a hunt today. I just wanted to sleep more.

"Dude, there is a job here." Dean tells Sam, and I perk up a little.

"Really?" Sam asks, a bit of excitement on his face.

"Yeah. You know that one freak accident that we saw in the paper? There's four more that never even made the paper, all in this Morning Hill Gated Community. People falling off of ladders and drowning in their jacuzzis all over the neighborhood." Dean explains and Sam nods.

"That is weird." He says, and I roll my eyes.

"No shit Sherlock." I mumble into the pillow.

"Something is happening, something that their gates can't protect them from." Dean says, and I sit up.

"That's kind of obvious Dean. Why don't you tell Sam about Ben and Lisa?" I ask, crossing my arms over my chest. Dean shakes his head.

"Because it's not important right now Tori. We can deal with that later. Right now, we need to focus on finding whatever is killing people." Dean says gruffly and I just huff in response before falling back onto the bed.

"You should probably stay here while Dean and I go question some of these people." Sam says, and I frown.

"I came all this way, for you guys to leave me?" I ask, and Sam sighs.

"Tori, you don't look old enough to be an insurance worker. Just stay here, and we'll come back for you before we do any serious hunting." Sam says apologetically. I just roll my eyes. I hate being so much younger than them.

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Not even five minutes after Sam and Dean leave, I pull my phone out. Might as well look at these texts while I have nothing better to do. I frown when I notice the most recent text is from Allison.

    Ally: 'Where are you?? I didn't know you and your brothers were leaving. Are you guys coming back??' I sigh, but decide to respond. Allison I can talk to, Dean is fine with me talking to other hunters.

   Me: 'Indianna. It was a spur of the moment hunt, and I just need to spend as much time as possible with Dean. We're coming back once this hunt is over, I'm not sure how long it's going to take.' I frown, but decide to continue looking at the texts. I purse my lips at the number of texts from Stiles and decide to look at Scott's first.

   Scotty Boy: 'Stiles is worried about you. I am too. Please talk to us.' 'Hey Tori, I know that you probably got in trouble with your brothers and I'm sorry, but please talk to Stiles.' 'Are you coming to school today?' 'I guess you're not coming today. Stiles wanted to ask you something, you should answer him.' I try hard to ignore the frustration building up inside me. These are my friends, the first real friends that I've really had. And I have to ignore them, act like we don't know each other. I bite my lip, ignoring the butterflies in my stomach when I scroll to the texts from Stiles.

   Stiles: 'Hey' 'What's up?' 'Tori, if you wanna act like the kiss never happened, that's fine with me. I just miss you' 'We can start now, what kiss?' 'You're one of my best friends Tori, I miss you.' 'How was the rest of the funeral? I'm sorry I couldn't stay and help you more.' 'Tori are you okay?' 'Why did Gerard want to talk to you?' 'Did he hurt you?' 'Are you mad at me?' 'I'm not mad that I got more detention trying to talk to you.' 'I would do anything for you Tori.' 'Maybe that was too far.' 'Hey are you gonna be at school today?' 'Where are you?' 'Are you okay, Allison said that she doesn't know where you are.' 'I had a question for you, something fun for after school.' 'Allison said you're in Indiana.' 'Why are you in Indiana?' 'Tori, it just told me that you read the messages.' 'I know you're getting these, Tori.' I scramble and go back to the home screen, frowning at the phone. I squeal slightly as the phone starts to ring, bringing me out of my staring contest with the phone. Ally. I bite my lip, debating on answering. I sigh and answer, knowing that it could be serious.

"Hello?" I say, glad that my voice didn't give away my emotions.

"Tori?" Allison says, and I sigh in relief. I was worried that Stiles would be the one on the other end. He has been known to "borrow" someone's phone before.

"Hey Ally. What's wrong?" I ask, and she sighs.

"We're worried about you. You only answer me, and when I woke up you guys were gone. You didn't even leave a note." Ally says, and I sigh.

"I'm sorry Ally. I just, I don't know what to do. Dean is not forgiving about werewolves, at all. Trust me. I don't want Scott to get hurt, and I'm terrified of Stiles getting hurt too. If Gerard knew that Scott was a werewolf, then I don't know what he would do to Stiles to try and get information. Oh, and this morning Dean and I met a kid that acts just like him and looks like him. The math matches up for this kid to be my nephew, but the mom denies it, so that's fun. Oh and did I mention that Dean sold his soul to a demon so that Sam could come back to life back when formal happened? Yeah, apparently that's what happened while they were gone. Sam died. And now Dean is going to die if we can't find a way to stop it." I rant, tears falling down my face. This was the first time I've talked about this with any of my friends. There's a moment of silence from Ally's end of the phone while I stop my tears.

"Tori-" Stiles starts and I gasp before hanging up. I can't talk to him right now, especially not while I'm this emotional. I'll talk to Stiles, but not now.

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Shortly after I stop crying, I decide to go on a walk to the park that we passed coming back from Lisa's house. I smile as I notice Dean sitting at a bench, watching Ben. I smiled at the cute sight, until Ben kicks another kid between the legs and heading back to Dean, a wide smile on his face.

"Benjamin Isaac Braeden! What's gotten into you?" Lisa shouts at the same time that i yell Dean's name. She turns to me and frowns before turning her glare back to Dean and Ben.

"He stole my game." Ben defends himself and I shake my head at Dean. Of course Dean would teach this kid that kicking someone is how to get your way.

"So you kick him? Since when is..." Lisa trails off before looking at Dean. "Did you tell my son to beat up that kid?" She asks, and Dean keeps the stupid grin on his face. I'm going to slap him.

"What? Somebody had to teach him how to kick the bully in the nads." Dean defends himself, and I just shake my head and sigh. There goes Lisa letting Dean anywhere near Ben again.

"Who asked you to teach him anything?" Lisa asks, starting to get worked up.

"Just relax." Dean says and I glare at him.

"Dean, you need to stop. You are in the wrong here." I say and Lisa scoffs.

"Just leave us alone." She tells Dean before grabbing Ben's hand and starting to tug him away. Ben, however, breaks free and runs straight to Dean giving him a huge hug.

"Thanks." Ben says before also giving me a hug, shorter than the hug he gave Dean. "Bye Tori." Ben says with a smile before running back to Lisa and letting her guide him away.

"Well you fucked up." I say, turning to Dean with a frown. He shakes his head.

"I'm not gonna talk about it." He says, turning and walking the opposite way that Lisa and Ben went. Can this day get any better?

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I got back to the hotel before Dean or Sam. Apparently they decided to meet each other and not tell me. Oh well. I frown when I hear a scratching noise at the window.

"What the hell?" I whisper, grabbing a gun and going over to the window. I open it slightly, looking around trying to find where the sound is coming from. I scream at the monster's face, the face that was on a body identical to me. And then everything went black.