CHAPTER SIX

Dean leaves​ the barn, and Nyx turns to Sam. "Tell me something." She says, and he looks over at her. "Does this one feel different to you too?" She asks, and he nods. "Worse?"

He sighs. "A little."

The three of them sit and wait for Dean to come back, but it's not him when the large door opens again. A man walks into the barn with a rifle, and he unlocks Sam's cage.

"What are you doing?" Sam questions and then picks up the bracket that fell into his cage earlier. The man opens the door to the cage and points the gun at him. "Hey!" He throws the bracket at the man as hard as he can.

"Sam!" Nyx yells when he fires off a shot.

The bullet misses him, and Sam runs at their kidnapper. They start fighting, and he manages to get the gun away from him before hitting him with the butt of it. Sam tries to cock the gun after seeing that he knocked him out cold, but it's jammed.

"Sam?"

"I'm okay." The youngest Winchester says as he then drops the gun, and walks over to the unconscious man on the ground.

He finds​ the key on him, and quickly lets Nycole and the cop out of their cages. They then put their unconscious kidnapper in one of the cages and lock him in. The three quickly hide when they hear the others coming.

Two other men start walking around, looking​ for their prisoners, and then Sam and Nyx hear gunshots. There's silence in the barn again before they hear a struggle. One of the men finds the pair and starts shooting at them when they run.

They bolt into another part of the barn, finding an older man about to shoot the cop. The pair stop in their tracks and look to each other as they try to come up with a plan.

"Hey!" Sam yells, getting the old man to face them instead.

He re-aims the gun, training it on them, and then Sam grabs Nyx and drops to the ground as another shot is fired off. It goes over them, hitting the man who had been chasing after them.

The man cocks the rifle again, but Sam's quick to his feet and gets to him first, taking it from him. Nyx rushes over to the cop who's on the ground as Sam fights the man who tried to kill them.

"Are you okay?" The teenager asks, and she nods as Nyx helps her up.

Sam passes the rifle to Nyx, and she aims it at the guy who was chasing them, he's on the ground holding his shoulder. She and the cop keep him where he is as Sam pulls the one who shot at them into the first area they were in and locks him in one of the cages.

"Are you alright?" The cop asks Nyx, and she simply nods in response.

Sam walks back over to the girls, and the cop places her hand on the gun that Nyx has. "I'll watch this one. You two go ahead." She tells them.

"Are you sure?" Nyx asks.

"His cousin," she motions to Sam. "He's your boyfriend, right?"

"Yeah."

"He was worried about you both. I'm sure you're both worried about him. I can handle this one. Go." She tells them, and Nyx looks at Sam.

He nods, and she hands the rifle over to the cop. Sam and Nyx then walk outside and quickly make their way toward the house. They go inside and have to deal with a little girl before untying Dean from a chair.

He immediately pulls Nycole into his arms as he looks over at his brother. "I heard the gunshots and thought..." He trails off, shaking his head.

"I've been kidnapped by a wendigo, vampires, and a skinwalker. You thought that some humans were gonna kill me?" She smirks as she looks over at Sam, and he chuckles.

"Come on, Daph, let's get the hell out of here." Sam says, and she laughs as they walk out of the house.

The hunters see the cop making her way out of the barn and they walk over to her. "Where's the girl?" She asks them.

"Locked in the closet. What about the dad?" Dean asks.

"Shot trying to escape." She says, and Nyx and Winchester boys glance around at each other, but say nothing. They all know that that's not quite what happened, but none of them are going to contradict her on it.

"Hey, how's your shoulder?" Nyx asks as she turns to Dean. One of the guys burned him with an iron fireplace poker.

"It'll be alright." He says, and she reaches up to move his flannel so she can see it, but he grabs her hand to stop her. "Don't worry about me."

"Me, not worry? Yeah." She scoffs, and he smirks as he lets go of her hand and drops his own to settle on her lower back so that he can pull her into his side.

He leans down and kisses her forehead, and she closes her eyes as she lets her body rest against his. "I survived twenty-six years before I met you. I'll be alright." He whispers, his lips still near her skin.

"Damn, you're old." Nyx smirks, and he then tries to get away from her. "No, I'm sorry." She quickly wraps her arms around his torso and locks her hands together; he reaches back to try and pry her fingers apart. "I've been locked in a metal cage in a barn for two days, I'm cold. Stay with me, you're like a human heater."

Sam chuckles as he watches them. His brother stops trying to force her hands apart and instead wraps his arms around the brunette. She smiles as he leans down and kisses the top of her head.

The cop finds her car and gets all of her things together to radio the police station. She tells them her location so that they can come and deal with the guys who kidnapped all of them.

Sam looks over at Nycole, and his brother. "Are you guys okay?" He asks.

"Yeah." Dean says, and she nods.

"I'm good." She tells him.

The hunters start walking toward the road, wanting to get away from the barn and the house. "I think the car's at the police station." Dean tells them.

"So... State police and the FBI are gonna be here within the hour. They're gonna want to talk to you." The officer says as they look back at her. "I suggest that you're all long gone by then."

"Thanks." He says. "Look, I don't mean to press our luck, but we're kinda in the middle of nowhere. Think we could catch a ride?"

"Start walking." She says. "Duck if you see a squad car."

"Sounds great to me." Sam says.

"Thank you." Nyx offers her a small smile, and she nods.

"Listen, uh..." Dean starts, and his brother and Nycole turn back around. "Sorry about your brother."

"Thank you. It was really hard not knowing what happened to him. I thought it would be easier once I knew the truth. But...it really isn't." She says with tears in her eyes. "Anyway, you should go." She tells them, and the three hunters start walking.

They make it to the road before any of them speak up. "Don't ever do that again." Dean says suddenly.

"Do what?" Sam asks.

"Go missing like that."

"You were worried about us."

"All I'm saying, you two vanish like that again, I'm not gonna look for you." He says, and Nyx laughs.

"Sure you will." Sam says​.

"I'm not."

"Yeah, you will." Nyx argues.

"You don't know anything, Sam's the psychic here." Dean says, and his brother shoves his uninjured shoulder.

"You'll look. You know how I know you'll look?" She asks, and he raises his eyebrows at her as she makes him stop walking.

She makes him turn so that he's facing her and then she pulls​ on his jacket. He leans down to her level, and she kisses him, resting her hands on either side of his face. The kiss is slow as their lips move in sync, and he pulls her body against his.

Sam laughs as he shakes his head, still slowly walking ahead of them​. Nyx pulls back, and her boyfriend smiles as he looks down at her.

"Alright, you I'll look for." Dean nods, and she smiles as she takes his hand and pulls him down the road, they all keep walking.

"So, you got sidelined by a thirteen-year-old girl, huh?" Sam asks as he looks back at his older brother.

"Ah, shut up." Dean says, not amused.

"Just saying, you're getting a little rusty there, kiddo." He says, repeating his brother's earlier words back to him.

"I'm disappointed in you." Nyx tuts.

"Shut up." Dean repeats as they all laugh and continue walking down the empty road.

—

"Hi." Meredith smiles when she answers her phone.

"Hey. I have a question." Nyx tells her.

"Alright, shoot."

"It's not a big deal that I missed taking my prenatal vitamins yesterday, right?"

"No, one day shouldn't hurt any." The doctor tells her, and she nods.

"I didn't think so, but I wanted to be sure." The teenager says.

"You should be good. Just get back on your normal schedule for them." Meredith says, and she nods. "Having a hard time remembering to keep the routine?"

"No, I've got a routine down pretty good. There were just some...extenuating circumstances."

"Nothing too stressful, I hope."

"Uh... Would you believe that me and my boyfriend's brother were kidnapped by a crazy family of hillbillies that have probably read The Most Dangerous Game about a couple dozen times too many?" The brunette asks, and there's a pause on the other end.

"You're kidding, right?" Meredith asks.

"I wish."

"Oh my God. Are you guys okay?"

"Yeah. Yeah, we're both fine." Nyx nods. "I mean, they hit us over the head and locked us in cages, but the cops showed up before they could do anything more to us. I don't have any injuries or anything. It was kinda scary then, but I'm okay now."

"Alright, well, I want you to see a doctor anyway. Better to be safe than sorry." She says, and the teenager nods.

"Yeah, 'course." She agrees, and Meredith nods.