Dead in the water pt 1

"Morning, daddy." A young blonde makes her past her father kissing his cheek and enters the kitchen. Her older brother is already there enjoying a bowl of cereal.

"Morning, sweetheart." Is the fathers reply his face buried in his newspaper?

"All these workouts, Sop, I don't know. Guys don't like buff girls." Sop gives her brother a steel glare.

"Yeah, well, girls don't like guys who still live at home." She whips around and stalks out of the house, her father's voice following her.

"Be careful!"

"I will." Neither of them saw her again.

Alex sat by silently watching her brothers go over newspapers and info gathering. Every few seconds she slowly lifted a bite of her pancakes to her mouth, trying not to catch dean's attention, she wasn't allowed syrup after the great sugar catastrophe. She just finished her final bite when a young waitress walks over.

"Can I get you anything else?" She eyes dean with a flirty look and his eyes roll over her figure, his pen drooping from his mouth as he gives her a heat filled stare. Sam interrupts making the woman clearly upset.

"Just the check, please." He spares a tense smile and glances at Alex only now noticing her empty plate of sugar doom. He gives her a heated glare.

"Okay." The waitress tersely walks off her hips swaying in the nonexistent wind. Alex rolls her eyes as she catches deans stare remain on the girl's ass as she walks away. Dean turns and pouts at same

"You know, Sam, we are allowed to have fun once in a while. That's fun." He uses his pen to point out the girl.

Dean huffs and pulls Alex closer by her chair. "Here, take a look at this. I think I got one. Lake Manioc, Wisconsin. Last week, Sophie Carlton, walks in then doesn't walk out. Authorities dragged the water. Nothing. Sophie Carlton is the third Lake Manioc drowning this year. None of the other bodies were found, either. They had a funeral two days ago." Alex levels him with a bewildered stare.

"Did you say funeral?"

"Yes, they buried an empty coffin for closure or whatever." He shrugs and Sam scoffs.

"Closure? What closure? People don't just disappear, Dean. Other people just stop looking for them."

Alex sighs, 'here we go again, and it's the third time this week'

"Something you want to say to me Sam?"

"The trail for dad it's getting colder every day."

By now the two of them are once again staring each other down, while Alex sits off to the side asking god why her brothers had to be so hard headed and idiots.

Dean was annoyed with his brother's attitude, he wanted to find dad too. "What are we supposed to do?"

"I don't know. Something. Anything." Sam shrugs his shoulders bunching up with tension ready to lash out.

"Know what. I'm sick of this attitude. You don't think Alex and I want to find dad as much as you do?"

"Yeah, I know you do it."

"We are the ones that have been with him every single day for the past two years. While you've been off to college going to pep rallies. We will find dad, but until then, we're going to kill everything bad, between here and there. Okay?"

Same finally calms down and shoots Alex an apologetic look. "All right, Lake Manioc."

Alex sighs, she loves the impala as much as dean but these long car rides always make her feel cramped, especially in her back, she's not sure why, just knows the area around her shoulder blades knots up and gets sore. It started a few months ago, dean told her to stop being a wuss.

They come to a stop outside an old lived in home, Alex stays in the car while her brother approach the home to ask the family questions about the girl's disappearance. She watches her brothers enter the home and settles down for a nice long nap, her head was beginning to hurt.

Dreamscape –

The darkness was back, her eyes were forced shut. Where is she, why does she keep having this dream? The comforting hum wasn't there this time. Chills run down her spine and terror fills her heart. She could he something far off, it was the voice, the hum. Only it was screaming, its voice was filled with such agony and despair, it chilled her to her core. All she wanted was to help it, ease it pain like it did hers…but she couldn't move and it was getting cold and dark again.

End –

Alex shot up in the seat. Her brother rip around in worry.

"What's wrong Alex, did you feel something" Dean Runs his hand along his sister's cheek he could see that her eyes held horror and grief and it pained him in his very soul.

A few hours later found Alex sitting outside the local police station as her brothers questioned the sheriff. As far as she was concerned her brothers had it handled and she could relax. That dream wore her out, who does that hum belong too, why is this happening to her, why couldn't she be normal like her brothers. Well at least what could be considered normal in her family.

Soon her brothers walk out led by a young woman with long dark hair and a charming smile. Dean was gazing at her like a lost puppy. Then he opens his mouth and Alex his to resist slapping him.

"So, cute kid."

"Thanks." The woman keeps walking and gives Alex a sideways glance when she joins Sam and Dean.

"Kids are the best, huh?" Sam and alex share a look of exasperation. 'that didn't last long' Alex thought to herself.

The woman points out a rundown inn across the street. "There it is. Like I said, two blocks."

"Thanks." Dean gives her a flirty smirk, but the woman only regards him with an amused grin before opening her mouth.

"Must be hard with your sense of direction, never being able to find your way to a decent pickup line. Enjoy your stay." And with that the pretty woman turns on her feet and stalks away with a smile of victory.

Alex could be heard laughing for several blocks as she takes in her brothers pouting, appalled face.

"Dude, "Kids are the best"?" Sam askes him.

Alex catches her breath and speaks up, "You don't even like kids."

"I love kids!"

Alex just stares into his eyes face completely blank, "that was something I didn't need to know about you brother."

"Dammit you little shit that's not what I meant."

Sam shakes his head. "Name three children that you even know."

Dean remains quiet his face pulled into a look of deep concentration, Alex was concerned he might actually break what brains he has left. Sam urges dean to speak

"I'm thinking!" With that they walk off, the crowd around them looking in their direction amused.

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Part 2 coming soon!

-kitty