Nothing Is The Same (6th book in Winchester Girl)

I've Only Been Alive For Two Weeks

Mary's POV
I was working a case with Ricky and Alison, a djinn who was dosing up people to see hallucinations. I was looking a felt someone behind me I grabbed their arm and kicked them. I turned and saw Sam holding a crowbar. "Samuel said I was cured." He said. "What?" I asked. "Mae, is that really you?" He asked. "Do the test." I said he did everything and hugged me, it felt different more forced than 'My baby sister is alive!' We pulled back and he looked at me. "How?" He asked. "No clue one minute I'm falling the next I'm in the cemetery a half year later and now staying with Ricky and Emmett." I said. "Cool, come on." Sam said and we left I found Ricky and Alison. "Good to know your alive Grumpy Moose." Ricky said seeing Sam. "You two Baby face." Sam shot back, huh Sam usually isn't sassy. "You scared my Uncle and others." Alison said. "Yeah well someone telling me Mae is alive would have been nice." Sam said. "You went M.I.A like always when your one family member is dead." Ricky said. "Enough out of the three of you." I said. "Okay well come on. We got to a place and saw an unconscious Dean and Crystal. "Crys your alive?" Alison asked. "And your working with a no longer possessed Mae?" She asked. "She's human Crystal." Sam said and kissed her. "Wait Crys aren't you gay?" Ricky asked. "Bisexual, dumbass." Crystal corrected. We all nodded. We saw Dean waking up. "Hey, Dean. I was expecting, uh... I don't know, a hug, some holy water in the face -- something." I said after he finally wasn't half dead. "So I'm dead? This is Heaven? Yellow Eyes killed me." Dean said still a little not lucid. "Yellow Eyes? That's what you saw?" Sam asked. "Saw?" Dean asked. "You were poisoned. So whatever kind of crazy crap you think you been seeing, it's not real." Crystal said. "So, then, is she...real? Or -- or am I still seeing things?" Dean asked. "I'm real. Here, let me save you the trouble. All me." I said and did all the tests. "Mae?" He asked. "Yeah. It's me." I said and he hugged me I hugged back. "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You -- you -- you were -- you were gone. I mean, that -- that was it. How the hell are you here?" Dean asked. "I don't know." I said. "What do you mean you don't know?" Dean asked. "I mean, no idea. I'm just back." I said. "Well, was it God, or -- or -- or Cas and Marina, or one of the gods? I mean, does Cas or Marina know anything about it?" Dean asked. "It might've been a god due to this." I said showing a lighting bolt blade. "Hades and Persephone said they couldn't even bring someone from the cage." Sam said. "Well then you tell me. I tried calling. Cas and Marina haven't answered my prayers. I don't even know where they are. I mean, I was... down there, and then, next minute, it's raining, and I'm lying in that field, alone. It's kind of hard to go looking for whatever saved you when you got no leads. But I looked. I mean, believe me, I looked... for days." I said. "Wait, days? How long you been back? How long you been back, Mae?" Dean asked. "About a week or two." Ricky and I said thinking. "About a week or two?" Dean and Sam asked. "Guys." I said. "You went to Ricky before us?" Sam asked. "Dean was finally happy." I said. "Kara left me." Dean said. "Yeah the only relationship that stood was Athena and I." Alison said. "Plus Reece and Evelyn." Ricky said. "You had what you wanted." I tried to reason. "We wanted our sister back." Dean said. "You wanted a family. You have for a long time, maybe the whole time. I know you both. You only gave it up because of the way we lived. But Dean, you had something, and you were building something. Had I shown up, Dean, you would have just run off. I'm sorry. But it felt like after everything, you deserve some regular life. By the way Sam what have you been doing?" I asked. "Besides hooking up with a demon again." Ricky asked and Dean shot him a confused look. "Hunting." Sam said. "You left us alone, and you were flying solo while teaching Crys?" Alison asked. "Not solo with a rookie." Sam said and Crystal nodded. "What?" Ricky asked. "Sam and I hooked up with some other people." Crystal said shrugging. "You two ? Working with strangers?" I asked. "They're more like family. And they're here." Sam said. We walked in an adjoining room and saw people. "Hey." A lady said. "Hi." We all said. "My God, you all have delicate features for a hunter." She said. "Excuse me?" Ricky asked. "Guys, Gwen Campbell." Sam said, is it possible to have multiple heart attacks I think like twenty happened. "Good to finally meet you guys. Sam and Crystal's gone on and on." Gwen said. "And this is Christian... and Mark. Campbell." Crystal said. "Hi." Mark said. "Cam-- Campbell? Like..." I trailed off. "Like your mom." Christian said. "Third cousin. Third cousin. Something, something twice removed. They grew up in the life, like Mom and like us." Sam said. "I thought all of Mom's relatives were gone. And I'm sorry. It's just, you know, why didn't we know about any of you?" Dean said. "Cause they didn't know about you. Not until I brought you all together." I heard Samuel Campbell said, hopefully he doesn't remember me stabbing him with a sword. "Samuel?" Dean asked. "Guys, give me a second with my grandkids here, please." Samuel said. "Come you two." Crystal said dragging Ricky and Alison away, okay my two brothers are here he can't do anything bad. "Lot of resurrections in your face today. It's all right. Take a minute." Samuel said. "Actually this is the only one for me." I said. "It's gonna take a little more than a minute. I mean, what the hell? H-how did this happen?" Dean said. "We're guessing whatever pulled Mae up pulled me down. So, whatever this is, we're both a part of it." Samuel said. "I've only been alive for two week so there's a hole in that story." I said. "I may have tried to make a deal with something but they brought Samuel down instead of Mae." Sam said. "But you don't know what that is." I said. "Bingo." Samuel said with a cold tone, well he might remember the cause of his first death. "And you have no leads? Nothing? Well, this -- this is, uh... No more doornails coming out of that door, is there?" Dean asked. "As far as we know, it's Samuel." Sam said. "Okay, am I the only one here that -- that -- that thinks that this can't all just be fine?"  Dean said. "Same." I said. "Believe me, you're not. I wanted to come get you, of course. Sam was adamant about leaving you out, so we did. Until this." Samuel said. "Right. So, then Crystal ended up in my garage how?" Dean asked. "Crys and I got hit before you did, few days ago. Dosed up with poison." Sam said. "By?" I asked. "Couple of djinn." Sam said in a obvious tone. "So Emmett was right." I muttered to myself. "Djinn? I thought those were -- were cave-dwelling hermit-type. That's pretty exotic." Dean said. "Not anymore, at least. These...look like regular people. They can blend in. And all they got to do to kill you is touch you. Their toxins get in your system, all of a sudden you're hallucinating your worst nightmares, and pretty soon you O.D." Sam said. "So Ricky and I were looking in the wrong place." I said. "Well, then how are you breathing air?" Dean asked Sam. "Samuel had a cure." Sam said. "You got a cure for djinn poison?" I asked. "Oh, I know a few things. Stick around, I'll show you tricks your daddy never even dreamed of." Samuel said. "Sorry I don't trust randomly resurrected people." I said leaving. I was in the  next room and Samuel spun me around and held my shoulder really hard it would probably bruise. "Listen you little brat, I remember you killing me, and as far as I'm concerned you killed my daughter by you having to be born, if you wouldn't have been conceived she'd still be here." Samuel said. I kneed him the groin. "Don't touch me asshole." I said. I walked outside and found Ricky, Alison, and Crystal. "Mae are you okay?" Ricky asked. "Yeah." I said. Dean and Sam ran out. "We are going to Dean's place." Sam said. "Okay we'll follow." Ricky said. We followed and got to Dean's place and we followed him in. "Lisa?! Lisa! Ben?! Ben!" Dean said. "Are you sure they didn't just go somewhere?" Alison suggested. Lisa and Ben walked in as Dean was about to call. "Where the hell have you been?" Dean asked shocked. "We -- we were at the movies. You knew that. Dean, ow." Lisa said as Dean hugged her tightly. "What happened?" Ben asked. "Go upstairs and pack a bag." Dean said. "Where are we going?" Lisa asked. "I'm taking us to a friend's house. Go. It's okay. Go on up. I'll be there in a sec." Dean said to her. "What the hell?" Lisa asked. I walked out to make my presence known. "Um..." Ben trailed off in shock. "Oh, my God." Lisa said. "Lisa, Ben, I don't know if you remember." Dean said. "Sam and Mary." Lisa said. "Emmett is meeting us at Hades and Persephone's." Ricky said. We got there and knocked I saw Pa answer it. "Damn it." He said. "It's good to see you, too, Hades. It's been a while." Dean said. I was hiding behind Ricky. "If you're here, something's wrong." Ma said. "What did you idijits do?" Bobby asked also there. "Guys, this is Lisa and Ben." Dean said. "Hi." Lisa said. "Well, it's nice to finally meet you two." Bobby said. "Mi casa es su casa." Pa said. "Maybe you want to just go upstairs there are two guest rooms. Just don't touch the decor, okay? Assume it's all loaded." Ma said. "So..." Ricky trailed off. "Hi guys." I said. Ma and Pa looked like they saw a ghost and Bobby looked like he was paralyzed again. I was pulled in a tight hug. "Το κοριτσάκι μου." (My little girl) Ma said. "I'm sorry." I said. "For what?" Pa asked looking at me. "Going to hell." I said. "We aren't mad." Ma said kissing my forehead. "You all didn't know Mae was alive?" Dean asked. "Who knew?" Sam asked. "Ricky, Emmett, Alice, and Athena." I said. "Also me, I heard the gang was coming back together." Kara said getting out of Alison's car with Athena. "Kara?" Dean asked. "Hey Dean." She said, I noticed it wasn't normal Kara this one wore skin tight jeans, a crop top, and knee high heeled boots. "Damn, she's gonna make you crawl back." Hermes said walking out. I spun around and punched him. "I apologized." He said. "Sorry, but you deserved it." I said. "She's not wrong." Reece said eating a sucker and Evelyn was reading a spell book. We walked in further and I was listening to Dean and Lisa talk about stuff. "How's he doing?" Dean asked. "He's okay the red head gave him some candy. How are you?" Lisa said. "Look, I know Hades's a little cold, but he's great. He's gonna look after you guys along with Persephone. Me and the others, we're gonna head out." Dean said. "For how long?" Lisa asked crossing her arms. "I'm so sorry, Lisa." Dean said probe almost in tears. "For what?" Lisa asked, she was probably pissed. "Those things were coming for me. And I should've known." Dean said. "How could you know a monster was gonna show up?" Lisa asked. "I should've known. I should've known that if I stayed with you that something would come, because something always does. But I was stupid and reckless and... You can't outrun your past." Dean said, well he's not wrong. "You're saying goodbye." Lisa said. "I'm saying I'm sorry... For everything. Everything." Dean said. "You're an idiot. I mean, I know it wasn't greeting-card perfect, but we were in it together." Lisa said. "I was a wreck half the time." Dean said, did me going to hell impact him that badly? "Yeah, well, the guy that basically just saved the world shows up at your door, you expect him to have a couple of issues. And you're always so amazing with Ben. You know what I wanted, more than anything was a guy that Ben could look up to like a dad. So, you're saying it's all bad, Dean? 'Cause it was the best year of my life." Lisa said. Dean left and we were now with the Campbell's and I could tell Emmett also hated them. "What's the plan?" Dean asked. "Well, right now, we stock up, get set." Christian said. "So you're saying there is no plan." Emmett said. "We'll find 'em. Just got to be patient." Christian said. "Yeah, okay. Oh, here's an idea. Why don't we go kill the sons of bitches that broke into my home?" Dean said. "Relax, Dean. We got it handled. Djinn are hard to draw out. Now, you've been out of the game for a while. Leave it to the professionals." Crystal said. "You're not a professional." Alison said to Crystal. "Is it bad I respect a well grilled hotdog more than the Campbell's." Emmett said to me. "Why do I feel like you have a list for those people." I said. "I dI, Ricky's ex-boyfriend is also on that list." Emmett said, I tried not laughing from Emmett has more respect for a hotdog than Castiel, Ricky looked at us oddly but shrugged. "Yeah. Sure. Tiny suggestion. You see, djinn are easier to draw out when you got bait. They want Sam and me. They know where I live. Now, I haven't been hunting in a while, but I'm gonna stick my neck out and guess that's a pretty good place for us to go. See? It's almost like I'm a professional." Dean said. We went to Dean and Lisa's place I was looking around not touching anything. "Huh, I love this one. Yours or, uh, your wife's?" Gwen asked. I saw Mark pick up a photo. "Hey. Do me a favor -- don't touch that." Dean said. I saw Kara pull out a golf set. "Golf? Really?" She asked. "It's a -- it's a sport." Dean said. "Not really." Ricky and I said. "Well if it was up to Athena it is." Alison said. "Why isn't Athena helping us anyways?" Sam asked. "She's helping Hades and Persephone with Ben and Lisa." I said. I was in the hallway near the kitchen. "Nice house." Samuel said to Dean, now I don't trust Samuel with anyone in my family. "Oh, yeah. Go ahead, say it -- call me a soccer mom. Whatever." Dean said. "Soccer mom, huh? Well, I'll have to look that up on the intranet. You know, believe it or not, I get it, Dean. You wanted a normal life. Your mom wanted a normal life, too. You remind me of her, actually. The attitude, for one thing. Your brother tell you what we been dealing with the past few months?" Samuel said, huh words of an asshole that wants to get punched right in the face. "No, not really." Dean said. "I've never seen anything quite like it. Been working 'round the clock." Samuel said I decided to walk in. "So what's going on?" I asked raising an eyebrow. "We don't know. But whatever it is, it goes way past a couple of djinn acting off -- Nocturnals attacking in broad daylight, werewolves out on the half-moon, creatures that we've never even seen before. We don't -- we don't even know what they are. I'm knee-deep in half-eaten human hearts and exsanguinated 10-year-olds, and it's all making me.. Uneasy." Samuel said. "So what's your theory?" Dean asked. "You two tell me. All we really know is it's all hands on deck. We're counting on each other right now. That's how it is with Campbells. We need you, Dean and Mary." Samuel said. "Look, I hear you, but..." Dean trailed off. "I need to spend more than a day to trust someone." I said. "You don't know what you're part of, Dean and Mary. You know, you had ancestors hacking the heads off vamps on the Mayflower. What I'm saying is that we're your blood. And we're out there dying, trying to get in front of whatever this is. Maybe not the best time for golf." Samuel said. Dean left. "My ancestors also kicked butt on Winchester's side." I said thinking of my Grandma Millie. "You are so much like a Winchester bull headed." He said. "You only knew my Dad kinda rude to make assumptions." I said. "You know nothing of your Winchester ancestor legacy that even your grandmother had." He said and left, what the hell is with him. I shrugged it off. Ricky found me. "Hey check this out." He said and handed me binoculars. I looked and saw the djinn just standing out there looking at the house. Dean walked back in and looked at all of us. "Those djinn are just sitting out there, watching us. Everybody's got to clear out." Dean said. "What?" Emmett asked. "They're not gonna come in here until me, Mae, and Sam are alone." Dean said. "So, what, I'm supposed to leave you here with no backup?" Samuel said, oh please stay you can be a sacrifice. "Dean's right. They're smart. They'd wait till they weren't outnumbered." Sam said. "All right, we won't be far. You call when they come, you hear? All right, pack up. We're out of here." Crystal said. Sam, Dean, and I were in the kitchen. "You okay?" Sam asked. "Oh, yeah." Dean said. "Mae?" Sam asked. "I'm... fine." I said having to think. "Yeah." Sam said. "No, this is... this is crazy. I mean, Mae, Grandpa. Whoever brought you back..." Dean said. "They don't want to be found for Samuel." Sam said. "My aim is still on gods for me, but I think Alison mentioned angels talking when I was resurrected." I said. "Yeah, I get that. But who are they, and what do they -- what do they want? Why?" Dean said fo Sam ignoring me. "That's a good question." Sam said. "Do you remember it?" Dean asked me. "What?" I asked. "The Cage." Dean said. "No, I was one minute falling and the next it's half a year later." I said. Dean looked out and saw a couple getting attacked. "Dean, they're already dead, and you know it." Sam said. "This is happening because of me!" Dean said. "Dean here." I said tossing him my spare blade. He nodded and left. I was walking and was attacked from behind I fought them and kicked them. "You're a special kid." They said. I made my eyes flash purple and used my telekinesis only this time it was more known a purple mist showed and it was like Scarlet Witch's power but purple. I killed them by making their neck snap. "Did you kill it?" Ricky asked running covered in dirt. "Yes and what happened to you?" I asked. "He was examining the perimeter and fell in a hole." Emmett said. We were in Dean's living room. "So, Samuel and the cuzzes?" Dean asked. "Don't know. They left in a hurry. I'm meeting them back at their place. You, uh, you coming with me?" Sam said. "No. No, I'm going back for Lisa and Ben." Dean said. "You guys?" Sam asked us. "Sure need a new adventure." Kara said. "Athena and I have an apartment." Alison said. "Ricky and I are fine on our own." Emmett said. "Mae?" Sam asked. "I need to rekindle with Ma and Pa." I said. "Makes sense and Dean, I practically shoved you at them. By leaving." Kara said. "That's a funny way to put it, but all right." Dean said. "I really wanted that for you guys. And when I told you to go have a normal life, I-I thought... you could have it, you know? But now I'm not so sure. I mean, you got to consider the fact that you'll be putting them in danger if you go back." I said. "So, what, it's better to leave them alone, unprotected, and then they're not in danger? I did this to them. I made them vulnerable the moment I knocked on their door, and I can't undo that. But what I can do is go with the best option." Dean said. "We hear you. I guess I just, wish you were coming, that's all." Sam said. "Why?" Dean asked. "Don't be stupid." Sam said. "No, I mean it. I mean, you know plenty of good hunters. I'm rusty. I did something seriously stupid going out there. I almost got us all killed." Dean said. "And that's exactly why I want you." Kara said. "What are you talking about?" Dean asked. "You just went. You didn't hesitate. Because you care, and that's who you are. Me? I wouldn't even think to try." Sam said. "Yes, you would." I said knowing Sam usually thought things through. "No, I'm telling you, it's just better with you around. That's all." Sam said. "We better get going come on." Ricky said. We left and they dropped me off at Ma and Pa's I knocked and they opened th door. "Come on in, Persy's making Mac and Cheese." He said. I nodded, Dean came by and picked up Lisa and Ben. Pa and I sat on the couch and watched horror shows and pointed out mistakes.

A\N:New chapter and as you can tell I hate Samuel Campbell! This is shown by his hatered for Mae which she gladly returns. Also Samuel knows about the Men Of Letters due to the Campbell's always being hunters and they would've known about some group that knew about the things. And it adds to why Samuel hated John. This will be explored more in As Time Goes By.