Hunter of the Supernatural: (Book 2) Angels and Demons

Chapter 12: Perfect Fit

Chapter 12: Perfect Fit

"Fit right in don't I?" Tyler managed to spit out. Bobby and Dean looked at the needle. It looked like it was embedded pretty deep. But it was thin so it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Dean held her shirt so it didn't fall on the offending object and cause her more pain or worse break it off.

"Bobby can you pull it out?" Dean asked.

"Ready Tyler?" Bobby asked the girl as an answer to Dean's question.

"Just get it out." She said more in control of herself.

"And hurry up. I want to get down the mountain before lunch time passes." Sam said. Not being able to help her was killing him but he stayed still so Bobby and Dean could take care of it. Cas was back there too but he wasn't saying anything. Probably brooding.

"You'll be good Tyler. We got you." Bobby was talking to her as he pulled the needle out. Tyler winced but didn't make a sound. Bobby held the needle between his fingers and Dean pulled out a baggie. Bobby dropped it in and sealed it packing it back into Dean's bag.

"Ready? I'm just going to make sure the bleeding stops." Dean said as he pulled out a piece of gauze.

"Don't bother. It'll stop on it's own." Tyler said laying back down on Sam's back and letting her arms dangle in front of the boy. "Just keep moving."

"Fine." Dean growled still not liking that she told him what to do.

"Dean I can take Sam's pack." Cas said. Dean grunted and handed his brother's pack to the angel. They resumed their journey. Tyler was listening to the sounds around them. Using her hearing like a sonar.

"I think Tyler's asleep." Sam said making Tyler tune back into the people around her.

"No. I'm listening." She said. Sam jumped but smiled.

"My apologies Ty. Hear anything?" He asked her.

"Nothing but forest animals. Most of them are afraid of us. There are some blue jays that are either fighting or mating but I can't tell just by listening." She said.

"And did you hear anything or anyone when you got hit?" Dean asked her when he realized she was talking and very much awake.

"I don't think so. I was crashing though the forest and the wendigo was in the tree tops and I wasn't paying attention to anything but the deadly monster but..." Tyler tensed just enough for Sam to feel it. "I knew it was coming at me." Tyler said sounding defeated. "I do remember hearing it disturb he air currents. And it wasn't long after that when I started to see things. The tree you saw? I thought the wendigo was there." She sighed.

"We all make mistakes." Sam tried to console her.

"And not even angels are perfect." Dean added. "And we're back to the parking lot."

"I have room in the back of the van where Tyler can lay down so she doesn't aggravate her back." Bobby said as the hunters and angel approached the impala, Tyler's mustang and Bobby's junky van.

"Somebody has to drive my car back and it obviously can't be me." Tyler said.

"Don't worry about it Bobby. I'll drive Tyler's car with her laying in the back." Sam said patting Tyler's leg. Sam bent his knees and let go of Tyler's legs until he felt her standing on her own legs. She didn't let go of his shirt and she seemed a little shaky but other than that she seemed alright.

"Thanks Sam." Tyler said reluctantly letting go of the back of his shirt. Sam could see she wasn't steady and that was not okay with her.

"Don't worry about it." He said and stepped behind her and helped her by steering her by her shoulders. Her steps were hesitant and stuttered but she was moving on her own power. Sam opened the door and she found the edge of the car and traced her hand along it until she found the hood. She kept her hand there and slowly stepped up. Her foot didn't come up far enough and hit the edge of the floor but she just lifted it up and kept moving until she was in. She laid down sideways to keep pressure off the little needle mark. It was actually still bruising and it looked like it was deep. The needle had gone through multiple layers of muscle. Bobby had showed Sam and Dean how long the damn thing was.

"I'll be right back." Sam said as he closed the door making sure her feet were clear.

"Here's your bag and her's." Dean handed Sam the two backpacks.

"She should be fine but if anything happens I'll be following you and Dean will be in front of you." Bobby said.

"I would like to ride with you Dean." Cas said.

"Yeah, hop in Cas." Dean said. The angel opened the door of the impala and ducked inside closing it behind him. "Let's roll." Dean said and Sam went to Tyler's mustang and Bobby to his van.

"We're leaving soon." Sam said looking back at Tyler. She was facing the seat and her shirt had ridden up to show the offending wound. It had stopped bleeding but the skin around it was irritated and bruised. It was green right around the little mark and faded to yellow and then a deep purple in a ring.

"Great." Tyler grunted. "Here's the keys." She dug into her pocket and pulled them out putting her hand towards Sam. Sam took them from her without a word. He just started the car.

"Can you see yet?" Sam asked starting her car and following Dean onto the road. There was a pause and he thought she hadn't heard.

"Yes, but I'm still hallucinating." Her voice was sad and angry.

"Don't worry about it. You'll get better." He tried to comfort her with words as he watched the road. Tyler didn't answer him right away. "You want me to put some music on?"

"Sure." Tyler sighed. Sam turned on the CD player. Aerosmith was playing. Sam reset it to the beginning and just drove until the CD finished. He was replacing it when she spoke again. "What am I supposed to do in the meantime?"

"What?" He asked her confused.

"What do I do until this mess clears up?" She repeated sounding angry. Sam knew she wasn't angry at him, just at what was happening to her.

"I'll take care of you Tyler." Sam said completely serious. But Tyler clearly didn't think he was.

"Dean will have you away from Bobby's faster than you can blink Sam."

"No he won't. I promise I'll be there Tyler." Sam looked in the rear view mirror just in time to catch her fidgeting clearly uncomfortable with the promise he made.

"Look, I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself okay. It's not like I'm-"

"Blind?" Sam said with a kind laugh. "You're hallucinating. Just let us take care of you. Then we can stop the war and go back to our usual complicated hunts."

"First of all, my hunts used to be clean cut and easy until I met you two idjits. Second of all you're assuming we're all going to make it out of this mess alive." Tyler said laying out the facts.

"I know we're going to get out of this mess."

"Do you really Sam? How do you know that?" Tyler sighed out sarcastically. "Because I didn't realize you were a fortune teller."

"I'm something even better." He smiled back at her even though she couldn't see. It was the act of smiling that Sam hoped would make everything more positive because sometimes people could hear the smile in people's words. Or so Sam always told himself.

"Fine, I'll bite. What are you?" Tyler asked already tired of Sam's bull crap.

"I'm a Winchester." Sam said and he heard Tyler chuckle, which only made Sam's smile bigger.

"Well doesn't that just sum up all our problems." Sam heard Tyler say and he could actually hear the eye roll in her statement.

"Hey, you can't blame us for being blind for all intensive purposes!"

"Oh so I'm not a Winchester?" She asked.

"No, but you do attract as much trouble as we do. I won't argue with you about that." Sam chuckled. Tyler merely grumbled.

"Glad I fit the bill perfectly for something." Sam laughed harder.