Chapter Three: Magnates

The Winchesters brought even human killers to justice, Hunters said. And they believed it too, because they needed something sane to hold onto when millennia old creatures of darkness wrought destruction at the behest of a demon. Caleb's tale was ignored, because no Hunter dared believe that two young pretty boy Hunters who hadn't even been on the scene for a year had tangled with a Zoroastrian demon. And hadn't lost. They hadn't won, but they for damn sure hadn't lost, and that was a victory in and of itself.

"Daeva," Caleb insisted when he'd sobered up some. "Two of 'em."

And that didn't even bear thinking about. One Zoroastrian demon was more than enough, no matter the type, but to go up against two you had to be suicidal. Except that the Winchesters were alive and mostly well and they were out for blood from the demon bitch who'd set the things on them.

The Winchesters were ruthless. They cut down ghosts, demons, and whatever else got in their way without a second thought in order to get to their father. And then Hunters learned what they were hunting. A demon with yellow eyes, who had twice made the Winchester women burn.

They had the Colt, said some. Neither yet thirty and they were said to possess the most revered weapon in the Hunting world. And no one was surprised. Impressed, even jealous, but not surprised.

Caleb and Pastor Jim Murphy turned up dead and Hunters learned to flinch at the name Meg, even as the Winchesters stood in Bobby Singer's house and sent her ass back to Hell.

A year. When a semi slammed into the side of Dean Winchester's car, it had been a year since they came onto the Hunting scene, bright eyed and bushy tailed and not expected to survive a week. Six months since they had changed from kids at the grownups table to a force to be reckoned with. Barely a week since they had sent the demon called Meg back to where she belonged.

And for the first time in their lives, Jo and Ellen Harvelle sent up a prayer to a deity they didn't believe in.

A/N: And that's a wrap (for season one at least)! I'll start posting chapters for season two within the week.