𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 > 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 {𝟏}

𝐗𝐗𝐈𝐗

After a short while, Deputy Kathleen explained to Dean and Karina that her brother went missing three years ago. She understood what they were both feeling about getting Sam back.

Karina was thinking about what Dean said to Kathleen about her, did he really mean it when he said that she is his family? So does Sam?

Yes, they all had a journey together to find the boys' father, but she didn't mean for them to think of her as her family. She never really thought of them as family. She never thought of them anything, both of them. All she ever wanted them to do is be able to trust her, and follow her lead to find their father.

Winchesters are the case, that's all. They both don't mean anything to the Huntress.

Kathleen was driving to the edge of the forest, after driving miles and miles. Trying to find any shortcut or turn-off due to private roads. Dean was looking through his passenger window as Karina was following his lead through her window. He noticed the turn-off by the edge of the forest.

Kathleen pulled up her car in the middle of the road. They all got out of the car, looked, and walked toward the view of the forest. Dean announced to them, "It's the turn-off I've seen so far."

"You guys stay here. I'll check it out."

Karina turned to Kathleen, "No, not without us."

"Hey." She stopped them, "You two are civilians. And felons, I think. I'm not taking you with me."

"As I said, you're not going without us."

Kathleen sighed and looked around for a moment. She looked back at them, "You guys promise you won't get involved? You'll let me handle it."

Dean looked at Karina for a moment, and she nodded a single nod. He looked back at Kathleen, "Yeah, we promise."

"Shake on it."

She offered her hand to Dean. Dean smiled before Karina warned him. She knew what she was doing. She cuffed Dean's hand and then cuffed Karina's left hand. Karina groaned, annoyingly, Dean commented to Kathleen, "Oh, come on."

Kathleen uncuffed Karina's hand and put her in the car, sitting on the driver's seat. Kathleen cuffed Dean on the door handle and started walking away. "This is ridiculous. Kathleen, I really think you're gonna need our help."

"I'll manage. Thank you."

She locked the car with her key and walked away. Heading to the forest. Dean moved the handcuff from the handle and thought about what Karina gave him when they first met. "I got to start carrying picklocks."

Karina turned to Dean, she rolled down the window. "I can't believe you fell for that."

"Kay, don't make it worse."

Karina rolled her eyes, and she leaned against the window. Looking up to Dean. Seeing him struggling to find anything to uncuff the cuff. "Dude, can you give me a hand?"

"No, I'm good. Thanks. I'm enjoying seeing you struggle, friend."

Dean glared down at Karina, all she gave him was a simple smile. Dean looked for something, and he finally noticed the antenna of the car. He reached for it, but he was too far away. They both heard the engine screeching, making a whining growl. Knowing that they're coming.

"Oh, son of a bitch."

Dean stretched it a little further. His fingertips are close to the antenna. Karina rolled up to the window back to place, and she climbed over the center console. Heading toward the passenger seat. She grabbed her blade from her hair and began trying to unlock the car seat.

Like she said, in case she really needs it.

Dean was reaching toward the antenna, but he failed again. Karina was still picking the lock. Finally, for both of them, Dean unscrewed the antenna. It came loose as Karina opened the car door. Luckily for her, it didn't alarm. Dean reached the antenna and grabbed it from the ground. He unlocked his handcuffs.

Karina closed the door, quietly. Dean came to her, and they both walked into the other side of the forest.

Dean and Karina were still walking in the forest, trying to find a house or a barn. They both quietly hid from the trees as they continued walking. Dean couldn't help but ask Karina, "Wait a minute, how did you get out?"

She chuckled by showing her blade in her hands. Dean's eyebrows rose, and she hid it in her ponytail to show him. "Just in case."

Dean shook his head, smiling a little. Karina noticed an abandoned barn in front of them. They both looked at each other, hopefully. That they found something they're looking for. They both walked to the barn quietly. Dean opened the door, and they both walked in, observing all the sights. They were both disgusted.

They looked a little further, seeing someone they know. It was Sam locked in the cage. Dean and Karina ran toward him, while Dean called out to him. "Sam?"

Sam smiled, relieved to see two people face-to-face. Karina looked at him in worry, "Are you hurt?"

"No."

Karina smiled at him widely while Dean slammed the cage, relieved, "Damn, it's good to see you."

They all smiled at each other, finally coming back as a trio again. Kathleen observed them, and asked, "How did you get out of the cuffs or the car?"

Dean turned around and saw her in the cage as well. "We know a trick or two." Dean went back to his position, he walked toward Sam's cage lock. It was steel locks that they both can't do, "Oh, these locks look like they're gonna be a bitch."

Sam pointed out to Dean, "There's some kind of automatic control right there."

Dean checked on the control panel while Karina talked to Sam. "Have you seen them?"

"Yeah. Karina, they're just people. Have you checked a case like that before?"

She shook her head, "Never. It's crazy..."

Dean was hitting all different buttons and asked Sam, "And they jumped you? Must be getting a little rusty there, kiddo. What do they want?"

"I don't know. They let Jenkins go, but that was sort of a trap. It doesn't make any sense to me."

"Well, that's the point. With our- our usual playmates, there are rules, there are patterns. But with people... they're just crazy."

"See anything else out there?"

"Uh, he has about a dozen junked cars hidden out back. I'm thinking when they take someone, they take their car too."

Kathleen asked them, "Did you guys see a black mustang out there, about ten years old?"

Karina nodded while Dean answered her question, "Yeah, actually, we did."

Kathleen looked down in sadness in her eyes. Karina noticed, remembering what she told them this morning. "That was your brother's car? I'm sorry, Kathleen."

"Let's get you guys out of here then we'll take care of those bastards." Dean looked at Sam, pointing out the control panel, "This thing takes a key. Key?"

Dean started to leave, "Alright, I better go find it. Karina, stay here and watch."

Sam called out to stop Dean from walking, "Hey. Be careful."

"Yeah."

***

While Kathleen was shutting her eyes for a second as Dean is still outside, Karina slouched down against Sam's cage. She was twirling her blade, Sam noticed the blade she was twirling. "I never saw that before due to your collections of knives."

Karina smiled, "It's my mother's."

Sam looked at Karina, thinking if he went too far. But she didn't show any regret or rage towards him. She passed the blade through the gated cage. Sam was getting a closer look. It was steel with silver carving linings on the blade, and a beautiful ancient silver hilt with markings of the carving head of a lioness.

"Wow... it's beautiful."

Karina looked at the blade that Sam was holding, she smiled lovingly. "Yeah... My father told me that blade's powerful. Whatever that means."

Sam chuckled, he turned to Karina. Before he realized that Karina was leaning against the cage, closer to his head. She was looking at the blade, still. He looked at every part of her vision. Her brown eyes, every wavy string of her ponytail. Even the messy part of her hair pushed back from her ears.

He was smiling softly, taking in the view of her. For the first time that Sam saw another side of her, she was at peace. Looking at the distance.

That moment stopped until she shifted her eyes on him. Sam looked down trying to not let her see that he was staring at her. The whole time. Karina felt his eyes on her anyway, she let him.

Karina smiled a little, she offered her hand. To let Sam give back her blade. Sam gave her blade back, but only then. He felt her fingers graze against his. His heart beats rapidly, and every incident of his bone turns to cool.

He never felt like that before in his life.

Sam moved aside from what he felt at that moment. To ignore it. Karina was serious when she told him, she doesn't want to put weight on his shoulders when she leaves. She will leave after they all find his father.

Back to her lonely life.

Karina put her blade in her ponytail. Suddenly there were footsteps that sounded like coming from the house, knowing it was not Dean, approaching the barn. Karina quickly stood up. Sam and Kathleen went to their full tension of waiting for the monster coming back.

Karina got an idea. She looked up at the ceiling of the barn. Noticed a beam in the far corner above the barn. She ran toward it and jumped higher. She caught the beam. She pulled all of her strength up, leaving her hiding in the shadows.

Sam and Kathleen saw what Huntress did a moment ago. All that Kathleen said was, "Damn..."

A man opened the barn door, letting him inside. He opened the control panel to open Sam's cage door. Karina was still holding herself together. Sam had a distraction for Karina, waiting for her signal. Sam asked, "What are you doing?"

A man approached Sam's cage, carrying his gun. He opened Sam's door to the cage, at that moment. Karina yelled at him, "HEY!"

The man shot at the ceiling, missing his shot on Karina. Sam threw the bracket at him, making him lose his distance. He fell down to the ground, and Karina jumped down on the ground. She kicked him in the face. He wouldn't give up, he pushed Karina out of the way. Sam comes to him, and takes a gun from his hands, hitting him in the face three times. He finally collapsed on the floor.

Sam came to Karina, offering his hand to her. She grabbed his hand, and he pulled her up. Sam tried on the gun, but the bullets were empty. "Damn!"

"Did he seriously waste one bullet? He's an idiot."

Sam agreed with her, so he dropped the gun. They walked to the guy, carrying him in the cage. Sam locked the cage with an unconscious man inside, and then he unlocked Kathleen's cage. Karina blew the fuse so they wouldn't turn on the lights. They all walked to another side of the barn.

They all see two people with two rifles entering in. Sam and Karina were hiding together behind the hay, keeping an eye on them. Karina gave him a signal to walk another side, he followed her lead.

Until then, Kathleen jumped on the man's back. The other man who was on the balcony kept shooting at Sam, but he missed every shot of him running away. Sam ran down to the lower level of the barn. Karina was still on the top, seeing everything going down. The man who was wrestling Kathleen was successful.

Kathleen was on the ground, unarmed, while the man was aiming a gun at her. "You stupid bitch."

Karina jumped down from the balcony, still hiding in the shadows. Then Sam came running in from another side of the barn, seeing Kathleen being aimed. "HEY!"

The man turned the gun on Sam and fired it. Sam dodged the shot, landing on the person behind him. Who was in charge of everything. The man fell to the ground, leaving the man with the gun shocked.

Karina grabbed her blade from her ponytail, running to him. She threw the blade, it landed perfectly on the man's hand, making him drop the gun. He screamed as his hand remained bloody. He looked at whoever threw the blade on him.

The Huntress wrapped her legs around his neck, making him turn around onto the ground. Karina landed on her feet perfectly, and the man woke up. Karina punched him in the face, knocking him out cold.

Karina pantied heavily, she ripped out her blade from the man's hand. Karina looked at it covered in blood. She carried it with her own hand. Sam walked up to her, seeing everything that she did to that guy in 10 seconds. They both looked at each other, succeeding with their plan.

Meanwhile, Sam was putting the man in Kathleen's cage while the women were looking at the man who had been shot. Kathleen had her gun aiming at him, while Karina was standing above the man across from her. Sam walked to Karina, he nodded his head to her.

Kathleen was still aiming at the man, ordering them, "I'll watch this one. You go ahead." Sam was looking at Kathleen, making sure. She looked at him, "Go ahead."

Karina tapped Sam's shoulder, following her out of the barn. Making their way to the house, where Dean was hand captive by a little girl. They both walked in, seeing Dean tied up to the chair while the girl was watching him. She was holding a little razor knife, pointing at Dean.

Sam and Karina looked at each other, laughing to themselves quietly. Sam made a noise, letting the girl follow the noise to the hallway. Directly from Sam. The girl walked slowly to where the noise was from. It revealed Sam, standing in the hallway.

The girl screamed, going for an attack on him. Then suddenly, Karina was behind the door. Pushed the girl's head against the wall, knocking her out. The girl fell down to the ground. Karina pointed out to Sam to get Dean out of the chair.

When Karina was close to grabbing the girl's body, a distant gunshot was fired. They both knew that it was from Kathleen. She grabbed the girl's body, putting her in the closet, without her little toy. Karina locked her in.

The rest of the trio walked out of the house, seeing Kathleen coming out of the barn. They all walked up to her. Kathleen looked up at them, and asked, "Where's the girl?"

Karina answered for her, "She's locked up in the closet. What about the man?"

Kathleen paused for a moment, "Shot, trying to escape."

They all exchanged their looks, knowing that themselves. Kathleen shot him cold blood after what he said about her brother. When Sam got his clothes back from the other night, already heading out to leave.

Dean said, "I think the car's at the police station."

Kathleen was walking behind, hearing the officer talking to her on her walkie-talkie. She approached them, and the trio turned to her to hear what she had to say. "So...state police and the FBI are gonna be here within the hour. They're gonna wanna talk to you. I suggest that you're all long gone by then."

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

Kathleen looked at Dean, "Start walking. Duck if you see a squad car."

Sam spoke up, "Sounds great to me. Thanks."

"Thank you, Kathleen."

Sam and Karina both walked out of their way until Dean mentioned something to Kathleen. "Listen, uh, sorry about your brother."

Kathleen nodded sadly, "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 isn't really.'

The trio looked at each other, Kathleen's voice breaking with tears. She pointed them out, "Anyway, you should go."

They all walked away from Kathleen, who was close to tears, seeing them walking away. Without all three of them, she would have never found out the real truth about her brother. All thanks to Sam, Dean, and Karina.

As they were walking along the road, Dean turned to Sam, "Never do that again."

"Do what?"

"Go missing like that."

Sam laughed, "You guys were worried about me."

Karina nodded while Dean disagreed, "All I'm saying-- you vanish like that again, me and Kay won't be looking for you."

"Sure, you won't."

"I'm not."

Karina scoffed, laughing at what Sam and her witness. She commented, "So, you got sidelined by a thirteen years old girl, huh?"

Sam pointed out, "Also lost the bet by the Huntress."

"Oh, shut up."

"We're just saying, you're getting rusty there, kiddo."

Dean chuckled, "Shut up."

Sam and Karina laughed. As they all continued walking with smiles on their faces on the road.