A/N: I'M BACK! And with me I bring you all the next installment in my series. I'm really excited about the turnout for this story and I hope you all are too! The flashbacks will be italicized. Without further a do, let's get on with the chapter!

Disclaimer: I do not own Supernatural

The comforting and peaceful silence was interrupted by a sharp ringing coming from a cell phone, resting on a nightstand. A hand reached up, searching for the phone, missing it a couple times by a few inches, when it finally found it and shut off the alarm. Natalie moved onto her stomach, allowing her eyes to rest for a few more seconds, wanting to stay in bed for just a moment longer. Footsteps down the hall told Natalie that Marina was already up, getting ready to go to work, which meant she needed to get up as well.

Groaning, Natalie pushed herself up and let out a long yawn. Pulling the covers away from her body, she swung her legs over the edge of the bed and stood up. After her legs adjusted to being used, Natalie shuffled walked towards the bathroom.

Turning on the shower, she quickly undressed and stepped in, closing the shower curtain. Natalie stood under the shower head, her hand leaning against the wall in front of her, allowing the hot water to stream down her body. Her muscles began to relax and her eyes closed, allowing herself to soak in the relaxation even more. Her right hand slowly moved down to her side, where her fingers began to gently brushed over the scar that had been left after she was shot. Apparently when Castiel healed her, he didn't heal all of her. Soon, she felt herself begin to slip back into sleep, her head slowly hanging down.

The grip on her jacket was strong as she was yanked up to her feet and pushed against the car. Her body was ablaze with a protesting burning that traveled throughout her entire body. Her eyes focused on the face that she was so used to seeing adorned with kindness and understanding for every little situation. Now it had been replaced by coldness and a chilling emptiness, no emotion was readable from what she saw.

His hand reached down and slowly pulled out the knife that she had tucked in her belt line and held it to her face. Panic was all she felt as she tried to push him away from her. The pain came so quickly. It was a hot, white, blinding pain that shot through her. He pulled out the knife and stabbed her again, this time, she made no attempt to hold back her screams. The pain had become so unbearable that the thought of holding back anything, didn't prove to be a good choice to her. Looking up into those cold eyes, Natalie could feel her world crashing around her. "Sam."

Natalie's eyes shot open, coinciding with a sharp gasp. The hot water still running down her back, she wondered how long she had been like that for. Most likely only a few minutes, but it felt like hours to her. Her eyes felt itchy and swollen, telling her that she had been crying. Natalie shook her head and proceeded with washing her hair.

Showers, nowadays, have become nothing more than just something that Natalie needed to do. She got through them mindlessly, since she would always be whisked away into her clouded thoughts, which consisted of only two things. The Apocalypse and Sam. That is all she would think about. Every second of everyday was spent on that. She never moved on from it.

Though, Clara and Marina would say to her that she has gotten much better and it was the truth. Natalie was much better off compared to how she was only a month after the events of last year. Natalie was still slowly merging herself on the path of moving on. But the thing is, it all still hurt. She still grieved over Sam. Mourned the fact that they never had the chance to really be together and it killed Natalie. The effect that it had on Natalie, surprised her, especially when it changed her personality.

Only a month after Sam jumped, there was a drastic change in her behavior. Horrible mood swings and violent tantrums were almost a daily occurrence with her. Her capability to handle the pain and grief, proved to actually be to much for her. Bobby had been called to come out several times, in an attempt to calm her, but it would only be a temporary relief.

At one point, Clara was tempted to contact Dean, but Natalie told her not to. "Dean, is living his own life. Leave him alone." Natalie would tell her, he was dealing with it in his own way and bringing him into Natalie's own grief would only prove to be a huge burden on him. All of her buried feelings that dealt with her father, mother, brother and now Sam, were all mushing together and she was facing them all at once. But, she was going to face them alone.

Natalie turned off the shower and opened the curtains, grabbing the towel from the rack, she wrapped it around her body and stepped out of the shower. Opening the bathroom door, she walked out into her room, pulled her clothes from the dresser and set them down on her bed. Removing the towel from her body, she covered it over her hair and began to pat it dry a couple of times. Throwing the towel on the bed, she quickly got dressed and walked back into the bathroom, picked up a comb and brushed it through her hair a couple of times.

Once she was satisfied, Natalie walked out of the bathroom and towards her bedroom door and opened it. Marina had already been making her way towards the room and stopped. "Hey. So I tried feeding her, but she wouldn't take anything from me. I'm sure she will from you." Marina said, fixing her shirt.

Natalie gave her sister a small smile. "Don't worry Mari. I've got it under control. I've done this, how many times now?"

Marina nodded. "Right." Marina stepped forward and gave Natalie a quick, but, tight hug. "Thank you, Nad."

"You don't need to thank me, Mari." Natalie said, pulling away from the hug.

"I know, but still, I need to." Marina kissed her sister on the forehead. "I'll see you after work, love you!" She called out as she ran down the stairs and rushed out the front door.

Natalie stood in the hallway a second longer then walked down a little bit and turned to a closed door, her hand reached down and turned the handle. Upon opening the door, Natalie was greeted by the all to familiar cream colored walls that gleamed from the sunlight that streamed through the windows. Small shelves decorated several spaces on the walls. On these shelves were quite a few different things. A lot of pictures that had been taken at various points during the year, while another had a few small stuffed animals sitting on them.

On the left side of the room there was a decent sized white dresser and next to it was a changing table that was the same color as the dresser. And towards the back center of the room, near the windows, was a white crib with a mesh lining and a pale yellow sheet covered the small mattress. Inside this crib a small baby, no more than six months old, was resting on it's back, waiting for someone to pick them up.

Natalie walked over to the crib and peered down, a huge smile plastered on her face. "Hey, Emily." Natalie said as she reached down and gently picked up the six month old. She held Emily close to her chest, balancing the baby on her hip. "Let's go downstairs and get you some food."

Natalie walked out of the room and carefully made her way down the steps, mildly distracted by Emily placing her hand on various parts of Natalie's face, which was only met by Natalie's small laughs.

Once they reached the kitchen, Natalie set Emily down in her high chair and popped the table on then tied on Emily's bib. Grabbing a cutting board and knife, Natalie took a banana and peeled off the skin, then proceeded to cut up the fruit in tiny chunks, then placed them in a small bowl. She walked over to the high chair and set the bowl down in front of Emily, who then happily began to eat the pieces of fruit.

Her phone began to go off and she pulled it out of her pocket, while pulling up a chair and sitting in front of Emily. Turning on her phone, she saw an incoming phone call from Suzie. Natalie answered and put the phone against her ear.

"Hey, Suzie."

"Nad. What are you doing today?"

Natalie picked up a piece of banana and fed it to Emily. "Well, the usual. Watching Emy, why?"

"Well, I'm off for today, and I thought that you and I should meet up."

"Suzie, I'm watching Emy and I don't know, I don't really feel like going out today." Natalie reminded her.

"Oh come on, Nad. You spend so much time cooped up in that house, you need to get out more."

Natalie laughed as she fed Emily another piece of fruit. "Oh, do I now?"

"Yes, you do. You can bring Emily with you to. Please, Nad?"

Natalie hung her head back. "Okay, fine. Where do you wanna meet?"

"How about we just meet at the park? Twenty minutes? Then we'll figure out what to do next."

"Okay, sounds great. I'll meet you there." Natalie pulled the phone away and ended the call. She turned her attention back towards Emily as she fed her the last few pieces of fruit. "How do you feel about going to the park?" Natalie asked as Emily gave her a smile. Natalie stood and loosened the chair's table and lifted Emily out. "Let's get you ready then."

Natalie sat on the park bench, gently rocking the stroller with her foot since Emily fell asleep right as they arrived. Though she had to admit, she was glad that she agreed to meet Suzie here. Getting out of the house was something that Natalie knew she needed, but never had the motivation to actually do it. Natalie looked down at the stroller, seeing Emily slowly waking up. She bent down and unhooked the belt and lifted her out of the stroller. She stood Emily up on her lap, as she leaned her hands against Natalie's shoulders to support herself.

"You're getting so big, you know that?" Natalie said, though it was more to herself than to Emily. "It seems like only yesterday that you were born. I remember Aunt Clara and I were out of town...and I got the call from your daddy saying that your mommy was going to have you. We both came here as fast as we could. And when I first saw you...you were the cutest little thing I had ever seen."

Emily seemed to understand what Natalie was saying as a huge smile appeared and she began to bounce up and down. Natalie moved her hands to hold her around the waist to keep her from losing her balance.

"You've helped me so much, Emy. I don't think you'll ever know, how much." Natalie kissed Emily's forehead.

"Hey!" Natalie looked over at Suzie, who was standing next to them. She leaned down and smiled at Emily. "Look at you!" Holding her arms out, Natalie gently handed Emily to her and she balanced Emily on her hip. "You are so big compared to the last time I saw you."

Suzie sat down next to Natalie, settling Emily into her lap. "So, how have you been, Nad?"

Natalie gave her a look and smiled. "Fine."

Suzie gave her a doubtful look. "Well, I'm glad to hear that. Because from what I've known is that the past year hasn't really been kind to you."

Natalie scoffed and shook her head. "That's an understatement."

"Are you ever going to tell me what happened? I mean it's something that I've only heard your sister and Aunt mention briefly."

"Suzie...it's not really something that I like to talk about and it's...a little hard to understand."

Suzie shrugged, adjusting Emily in her lap. "It's fine. I mean I don't want to push you to talk about it...but, if you ever want to, you know I'm here."

Natalie looked at Suzie, giving her a small smile. "I know, and I really appreciate it. You never know. Someday I might actually want to sit down and talk about it."

"Well, you know where I'll be. So, when are you going get to a break from watching this little girl?" Suzie said, gazing down at the baby in her lap.

"I don't mind looking after her. But, tonight Mari and Ethan are taking Emily to visit his parents. They're gonna stay there for a little bit."

"That's good. Gives you some time to be alone. So I thought that I would buy you lunch and then maybe we could go shopping. I could buy this little girl a couple of things."

Natalie laughed. "Don't go and spoil her Suzie."

Suzie looked at Natalie, pretending to be offended. "I would never Nad." She turned and carefully handed Emily back to Natalie and stood from the bench. "Let's get going." Suzie turned around, making her way back to her car.

Natalie stood up and placed Emily back in the stroller, and as she bent down to strap her in, she felt like someone was watching them and out of the corner of her eye she spotted someone standing a little bit away from them. Natalie's body went tense at the thought that someone was watching them, but she decided to make it seem like she wasn't phased. Natalie proceeded to buckle the straps around Emily and stood back up. Her head slowly turned to her right, in the direction in which she saw someone, but found that no one was there. Her brows furrowed, thinking that she was beginning to lose her mind once again.

"It's nothing." Natalie whispered to herself. She walked around to the back of the stroller and braced her hands on the handlebar. She pushed the stroller and began to make her way back towards her car, when she slowed down and looked back at the spot, still seeing nothing. Even though she wasn't satisfied, Natalie turned back around and continued on down the sidewalk, determined to not let this distract her.

The sun was just beginning to set and back at the house, Marina was gathering everything she needed for the stay at Ethan's parent's house. Natalie walked down the stairs, a baby bag in hand, and held it up to her sister. "I think you're going to need this."

Marina looked up at her sister and smiled in her own relief. "Thanks." Marina took the bag and placed it down with the others. "Good thing Ethan was in town to take us there. I don't think I have the energy to drive myself up there."

"That's why I'm glad you're going up there. Just relax, okay?"

Marina gave Natalie a look and braced her hands on Natalie's shoulders. "Nad. Are you sure that you're going to be alright? By yourself at least?"

Natalie gave her sister a nod. "I'll be fine, Mari." Natalie saw the skeptical look in her sister's eyes. "Mari, I'm serious. I'll be fine. Don't worry about me. You've done enough of that for the past year."

"I had every right to be worried, Nad. I never want to see you like that ever again. It was painful for me because I knew there was nothing I could do."

Natalie nodded solemnly, knowing that this past year, Natalie wasn't the only one who had to deal with it. Marina and Clara had to deal with it as well and Natalie's behavior didn't make it any better.

"You and Aunt Clara did what you could. And I am grateful that you two were always there for me." Natalie gave Marina a forced smile. "But, everything is fine now. I'll be fine. Go and have a good time with Emy and Ethan."

The front door opened and Ethan poked his head in, halting the sister's conversation. "Hey, am I interrupting something?"

Natalie looked over at him, giving a smile and shook her head. "Nope. I think they both are ready to go."

Ethan walked in and grabbed the bags and headed back out to the car. Marina turned around and picked up the car seat in which Emily was fully asleep. Natalie walked over and leaned down, gently kissing the baby's forehead.

"You three be safe." Natalie said as she pulled her sister in for a hug.

"Take care of yourself, until I get back." Marina said as she pulled away and kissed Natalie on the forehead.

"I will. Now go." Natalie ushered her sister out the front door and stood under the doorway, watching as Marina strapped in Emily's car seat and then got into the car. Natalie gave them a smile and one final wave as Ethan drove away from the house.

Natalie's smile immediately dropped as she turned around and walked back into the house. She took out her phone and turned it on, reading the message that her Aunt had sent her.

Omaha. 2 hours. Meet me outside of Mike's Bar and Grill.

How did you all like the first chapter?! I've had this chapter drafted for some time now, I just needed to edit some of it. If I've planned it out right, the next chapter should be when she reunites with Sam and Dean. Hope you all are excited for that! Don't forget to drop me a review! OH! And what are you opinions on 'Aunt' Nad? Let me know! Xx