“Come on Sam we don’t have time for this!” Dean says causing you to wake from sleeping in the back seat of the impala. You look around to see snow covered trees passing slowly by your window. “Dean, I just want to take a break. Let’s stop somewhere tonight and relax. Besides _______, is exhausted from our last hunt and to be perfectly honest so am I.” Sam says not noticing that you had woken up and were listening in on their conversation. “Sam, we don’t have the luxury of taking time off.” “I know, I’m just asking for one night that’s it.” Dean looks over at his brother and letting out a sigh says, “Fine one night.”

Sam smiles and then turns around to see you staring at him with a confused look on your face. “Oh did we wake you?” You smirk as you say, “Nah, I was just resting my eyes.” He smiles and then turning back to Dean tells him of a town up the road where there is a cheap motel. You lean back in the seat and smile as you look out at the snow glistening in the moonlight as it fell to the ground. You had always loved the snow ever since you were little and you would sneak out of the house to make angels in the snow. You didn’t have the time to do that anymore since you joined team free will. Dean was a bit of an alcoholic with a sarcastic attitude but he made up for it by being an all around good guy. Castiel was innocent and mysterious, he would often disappear for days at a time doing what he called ‘research’, but there was something about him that made it easy for you to trust him.

Then there was Sam; tall, dark, and handsome. He had been through hell literally but he had remained sweet and kind through it all. He was the main reason you had joined the fight against the darkness. You had fallen for Sam as soon as you had seen him walking out of the fog toward you when a camping trip you had been on turned into a complete nightmare. Of course you didn’t let him knew you liked him, you were worried that your feelings wouldn’t be reciprocated. The backseat windows of the impala started to fog up causing you to smile as you reach up and draw little stick people on them. The car comes to a stop outside a motel called “The Reese Inn” and you let out a sigh of relief as you wanted to get out and stretch your legs.

“I’m gonna go check us in.” Sam says closing the passenger door and heading toward the motel office. “I’ll join you; I could use a cup of Joe right about now.” You say as you rush after him. He stops and waits patiently for you to catch up to him. “So how’d you sleep?” Sam says as the two of you walk toward the office. “No too bad, but that’s just me I can sleep pretty much anywhere.” He smiles as he reaches forward and holds the door open for you. When you walk into the office there is a girl standing behind the counter that looks like a snob as she ignores you and stares straight at Sam. Rolling your eyes you walk over to the coffee maker and pour you a cup.

“What two rooms or one?” Sam says as he turns toward you. “One, I don’t have enough money for my own at the moment.” He nods as he turns back toward the girl behind the counter who looks like she has bleached her hair one too many times causing it to look orange and fried and says, “One room, two beds please.” You smile as you anticipate the rock, paper, scissors war that would ensue for the other bed as both brothers would insist you take one of them. “Hey ______, let’s go.” Sam says causing you to stir from your day dream and say, “Coming,” As you leave the office you glance over to see the girl from behind the counter lick her lips as she stares at Sam’s butt. The two of you walk the rest of the way to the motel room in silence. “Bout time I’m freezing my ass off out here.” Dean says as he opens the trunk and pulling your bag out tosses it to you.

“I think it’s nice.” You say as you take one of the motel key’s from Sam. “You would, look at you wearing shorts in a blizzard what are you a walking furnace?” You laugh as you say, “I’m hot blooded Dean there’s a difference.” Dean rolls his eyes as he closes the trunk and walks over to where you are opening the motel room door. When you open the motel room door you see two beds but no couch. Setting your bags down on the dresser you turn toward the boys and say, “Why don’t you two take the beds, I’ll sleep on the floor.” They both turn to you and say in unison, “No!” Rolling your eyes you say, “Fine I’ll play you for it, rock paper scissors, winners take the beds. Loser sleeps on the floor.” Sam opens his mouth to protest but Dean stops him by saying, “Alright, I’m game.”

Dean tosses his bag down on the floor and walks over to you and holds out his hand. You smile as you hold your hand up and bringing it down to three times to reveal paper which lost out to Dean’s scissors. Smiling Dean walks over to the bed and plops down on top of it. You look at Sam who is scowling at your obvious letting Dean win. You couldn’t help it the guy always chose scissors. “Come on Sam,” You say as you turn toward him and hold out your balled up fist. He clenches his jaw as he waves his fist three times and then lands on rock. You look down at your own hand and shrug as you see you have lost. “See I guess it was meant to be for me to sleep on the floor.” Sam rolls his eyes and you know he knows that you gave him the win. You look at the two men getting comfortable and say, “I’m gonna go for a walk, it’s kind of hot in here.”

Dean bolts up and handing you one of his guns says, “Just in case you run into trouble.” Taking the pistol from him you smile and say, “When do I ever run into trouble?” Before he could answer back with a retort you are out the door. Looking up at the sky you smile as the cold air blows across your face. Slipping the motel key into your back pocket you make your way down the street and into town. You watch as the people give you weird looks as you walk past them. You hear footsteps behind you and turning sees Sam a few feet behind you. “Sam?” You say as you stop and wait for him to catch up with you. “Hey, I figured you’d like some company.” You smile as you wrap your arm around his and say, “A girl can always use some company.” He smiles as the two of you start walking again.

“So, you know I know you threw the game and let me and Dean win.” You smile as you say, “I did let Dean win, but you won all by yourself Mr. Winchester.” He smirks and stopping turns toward you and says, “That doesn’t mean I’m gonna let you sleep on the floor.” “Sam, I told you I can sleep anywhere. You two are exhausted and need your rest so you take the beds.” “________,” He starts to say but you stop him by holding your hand up and saying, “Nope, end of discussion. I win.” You start heading back down the street and then looking forward see s bunch of people ice skating and smile. You rush toward the rink and smile even brighter when you see an ice skate rental on the other side. Without thinking you make your way over to it and are about to tell the man your shoe size when Sam pops up beside you and says his and your shoe size making you look at him in surprise.

“What?” he says as he pays for the skates. “Nothing, I just didn’t think you knew my shoe size.” He smirks as he says, “Let’s just say I pay attention.” Smiling the two of you walk over to a bench where he helps you put on your skates. When the two of you have your skates on you make your way to the rink where you slowly ease onto the ice. Taking your hand Sam intertwines his fingers with yours and falls into pace beside you. Smiling you flip around so you’re skating backwards and looking up at Sam say, “So you come here often?” He laughs as reaches forward and gently lays his hands on your hips and steers you around the onslaught of people. He releases your waist only to twirl you around causing you to trip on the toe pick and as you fall you become aware of Sam wrapping his arms around you to shield you from getting hurt. As you feel the cold ice behind you, you open your eyes to see Sam looking down at you his Chocolaty green eyes searching your (E/C) ones for any sign of pain.

Without thinking your reach up and pull his lips to yours. At first he tenses up then he relaxes and deepens the kiss.  His hand moves from your hip up to grip your hair holding your lips to his. When you pull away you look up to see him smiling down at you. Smiling you say, “I guess falling wasn’t so bad.” He smiles as he stands up and helps you to your feet. After a few minutes of skating he turns to you and says, “You want some cocoa?” You nod as you make your way over to the skate rental to return yours and Sam’s skates. After  you return the skates you turn and end up face to face with a local cop. “Sorry,” You say as you step back to let him pass only to have him say, “Ma’am is this yours?” you look back at the cop to see him holding the pistol Dean gave you for protection.

“Yes, my brother is very paranoid about me getting mugged.” You notice that the cop was tall but round like he had eaten too many doughnuts. “I see, do you have a permit for this?” You mentally slap yourself as you say, “Yes, just a second.” You fiddle around in your pockets before pulling out your man style wallet and handing him your CHL (Concealed handgun License) say, “Here officer I hope this helps.” He looks at your CHL then back at you and says, “Can I see your ID please?” You slip out your driver’s license and your military ID and sighing hand them up to the plump officer.

As he looks at your military ID he raises an eyebrow and says, “You were in the Military?” You straighten as you say, “Yes sir.” He nods in surprise as he says, “How many years?” “Whole life, I was born and raised Air Force Special Forces.” Nodding he says, “Well thank you for your service.” You smirk as you say, “No problem.” “Here, you better take better care of concealing that. You have a nice night.” He hands you back your ID’s and Dean’s gun and as he walks away you let out a heavy sigh. “You were Special Forces?” You hear a voice say and you turn to see Sam staring at you in amazement. “Yeah,” You say as you quickly put Dean’s gun back in the confines of your belt and take one of the cups of cocoa from him. “Kinda surprising, never would have thought of you as the soldier type.” You sigh as you turn and start to head back to the motel.

“I’m sorry if I’ve said something wrong,” “No Sam your fine, I just don’t like talking about my past.” You look up into his eyes and you could tell that he knew you were hiding something. Rolling your eyes you say, “Remember when we first met, when you saved me from becoming Wendigo chow?” He clenches his jaw at the memory and says, “Yeah I remember, you were camping with your family.” Your heart clenches as you nod and force yourself to say, “I was camping with my brothers and our father. My mother died while giving birth to me so my father decided to raise me like one of my brothers. As you’re probably already guessed I was a tomboy,” He smiles at you as he pictures you as a tomboy.

“Well my father was a green beret and since all of my brothers decided to join the military when they grew up I followed in suit. My oldest brother Josh, joined the marines and became special ops; my other brother Mike joined the Army and became a Ranger. Jared joined the Navy and became a Seal, so when it came time for me to join the military I was proud to join the Air Force and after a lot of hard work and almost dying a few times I became Para-rescue. I spent a lot of time overseas doing things I can’t tell you and when I finally came home I was happy to get away from it all. My father told me that he was proud of me and that he knew I was discharged. He said that he wanted me to do whatever made me happy and then two seconds later the Wendigo came and,” Tears started filling your eyes causing you to stop talking and turn away from Sam and start walking again only to be pulled back into Sam’s comforting arms.

“Why did they have to die?!” You say as your legs give out from under you. “They were so young and had a full life ahead of them. When the Wendigo attacked we didn’t know what to do, it went after my father first and then my brothers; why did it save me for last what did I do to deserve that?” “There’s nothing you could have done at the time _______.” You wrap your arms around him and grip tightly to his coat holding on for dear life. “Sam, it’s all my fault! I should’nt have suggested that we go camping, my family would still be alive right now if not for me! I’m all alone now!” Sam pulls you away and placing hands on both sides of your face says as looks into your eyes, “_______, It was not your fault. You didn’t know that there was going to be a Wendigo. ______, you didn’t even know that they existed until that night. It’s not your fault. You’re not alone you still have Dean, Cass, Bobby, and me.”

Wiping your tears away he kisses your forehead and then says, “______, I won’t let anything bad happen to you. I will protect you and never make you cry. I promise.” Pushing him away you chuckle through your tears as you say, “You can’t promise that. With our job we can die at any time.” He clenches his jaw and looking away says, “I promise, to never make you cry let you get hurt or tell you lies. _______, I want you to be happy.” You look at him confused as you say, “Why do you care so much? Most guys would just tell me to buck up and move on.” Sam leans forward and gently places a kiss on your lips. At first you stare at him wide eyed then as the kiss deepens you close your eyes and reaching up intertwine your fingers in his hair deepening the kiss. After a few moments the two of you pull away and breathing heavily Sam says, “I love you,” Your eyes fill with tears of joy as you say, “What?” “_______, I have loved you from the moment I met you.”

Reaching up you wipe the tears from your eyes as you say, “I love you too.” The two of you smile at each other as he helps you to your feet. “How about we don’t tell Dean about my breakdown?” He laughs as he says, “Yeah that probably wouldn’t be the best idea. He’s already overprotective of you, say’s you’re like a little sister to him.” Laughing the two of you start walking back to the motel, when you arrive at the motel room you quickly grab a handful of snow and making a ball smile at Sam. Sam recognizing your motives smiles and opens the door. “Bout time you two got back, I was getting tired of,” You throw the snowball hitting him in the back of the head sending snow down the back of his shirt causing him to jump up and down shaking his shirt. 

“What the hell?!” Dean says as he looks toward the doorway to see Sam and you laughing hysterically. “Oh it’s on!” He says as he jumps up from the bed causing you and Sam to run outside where a massive Snowball fight ensued. As you look at the two brothers that had taken you in and become your family playfully throw snowballs back and forth at each other, you look up at the sky as the snow falls around you and smile. “Thank you for bringing these two amazing men into my life.” As you look back toward Sam and Dean you see out of the corner of your eye your father and brothers smiling and waving goodbye.

As you wave back at them your suddenly feel people next to you and looking at your sides see Sam and Dean smiling at you. You look back at your father and say, “Goodbye daddy,” He smiles at you as he starts to fade away into the night. When he is gone the three of you turn and walk back into the motel room, and you sigh as you watch the brothers argue over what movies to watch. “Thank you,” “For what?” You turn suddenly aware of the angel in the trench coat next to you and smiling say, “For giving me them, I wouldn’t have made it without them.” Smiling Cass gently lays a hand on your shoulder and says, “Your welcome.”