Katherine

6.

K awoke to the sound of occasionally beeping. She fluttered her eyes open and winced at the bright light. She looked around and saw that she was in a hospital. She looked to her right and saw Dean asleep in the chair next to her. He looked exhausted. Sam walked in the door quietly with coffee. As soon as he saw her awake his lit up with a bright smile.
"K!" He exclaimed.
Dean was startled awake. He looked at K and then to Sam, reaching for the coffee. Sam handed it to him and sat down on the bed next to K. He gave her a big hug, careful not to hurt her or pull on her IV.
"Thank you for saving me. Again." K said.
"Don't mention it. So what exactly happened? We didn't see sulfur, or signs of any monsters back at your place." Sam asked curiously.
K sighed and looked down at he hands in her lap.
"His name was Arthur. My boyfriend. He got drunk and found your number in my bathroom and thought we were seeing each other." K said, still not looking at Sam.
"I thought he loved me. At least he did when he was sober." she continued.
"Doesn't look like love to me." Dean said pointing to K's neck.
"What do you mean?" She asked.
Sam got up and went to the bathroom, returning with a small mirror.
K took it and looked at herself. She gasped. She had bruises on her face, and dark purple, almost black handprints on her throat.
She touched the bruises gently.
She sat the mirror down beside her and sighed. She didn't know why Arthur would hurt her. She never did anything wrong.
"I'll talk to him and tell him I won't stand for it next time." She said.
"What? There's no way in hell your going back to that asshat!" Dean said rather loudly.
"And why not? He was drunk. Maybe he didn't mean it. He's probably looking for me right now." K replied.
"Well let him keep looking. Cause he's not gonna find you." Dean told her.
"Why do you care? You were the reason I left months ago!" K shouted.
Before Dean could say anything else, the doctor walked in.
"Katherine Winchester? Looks like you're good to go seeing as your brothers are here. I'll get the nurse in here to unhook you and have your discharge papers ready on the way out." He said with a smile, then left.
"Brothers?" K asked Sam.
"It was the only way we could see you." He laughed.
They both got up and headed out the door so K could change. The nurse walked in and helped her with her IV's and helped to the bathroom. She changed out of her hospital gown and into her clothes. She look at her bruised body. She couldn't help but to think of Arthur. She loved him and hated that he did this to her. She knew that he loved her as well. He just needed to stop drinking as much. There was a knock on the door. It was Dean.
"You ready to go, Katherine?" He called. She was going to tell him not to call her that, but she only smiled. She liked the way her name sounded coming from him.
"K?" He called again.
She opened the door. "Yeah I'm ready." She responded.

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The Winchesters had taken K by her house to grab her things. She was going to be staying with them for awhile. It took a lot of arguing and convincing from both of them that Arthur was not good for her. But deep down, K still didn't want to believe them. She noticed that Arthur had taken all of his things and left with all of her money she had saved up. 'What an ass' , she thought.

They arrived at the bunker and helped K bring her stuff inside.
"I'm gonna go get your room ready." Sam told her as he took her bags down the hall.
K felt like a burden to the brothers but maybe Sam was right. Maybe she did need some protection. Dean walked over to K and sat down beside her. He handed her a glass with what she assumed was whiskey in it. She took it and took a long swing of the strong liquid. She sat it down on the table as Dean did as well.
There was a long silence before Dean spoke up.
"So. Why would you stay with someone that doesn't know how to treat a woman?" He asked. His emerald eyes looked at her own. She could see so much pain and sadness in them.
"He wasn't always like that. Only when he was drinking. But when he was sober, he was nice man. He spoiled me with money. He would let me do whatever I wanted really. But things started to go downhill when he would get drunk. He blamed me for everything. He would use me as a punching bag-"
Dean cut her off. "Wait this isn't the first time he's put his hands on you?"
K only shook her head. A year fell from her eye but she quickly wiped it away. Dean lifted her face up with his hand. "I'm gonna find that son of a bitch and give him a taste of his own medicine. You don't hit a woman. Doesn't matter what she did, that doesn't make it right." And with that he stood up and went back to the kitchen for more whiskey.