someone to stay, supernatural [ 1 ]

005. terrible driver

Natalie jolts awake in the backseat of the Impala, images of Noah and Jess' bodies still flashing in her mind. She looks next to her where Ophelia is sitting in the middle of the backseat.

Ophelia holds a Twizzler out to her aunt who takes it.

"Thanks, Ophi." She mumbles.

"No problem." Ophelia says.

"Me!" Libby reaches for a Twizzler. Ophelia looks at Natalie for permission.

"Just a tiny piece." Natalie tells her. Ophelia rips a tiny piece off and gives it to Libby.

"You all right?" Dean asks, glancing at his sister in the rear view mirror.

"Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine." Natalie says, biting into the candy.

"Another nightmare?" Dean asks. Natalie doesn't say anything, turning her attention to out the window, messing with her bracelets.

Sam jerks awake, looking around.

"You okay?" Dean asks him.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Sam dismisses.

"Nightmare?" Dean asks. Sam clears his throat, not giving him an answer. "You wanna drive for a while?"

"Dean, your whole life, you never once asked me that." Sam says.

"Just thought you might want to. Nevermind." Dean dismisses.

"Aunt Natty could drive." Ophelia says.

"No. No, she can't. She's kill us." Dean says.

"Very funny." Natalie rolls her eyes.

"I'm not being funny. You almost crashed into a tree last time I let you drive." Dean says.

"You wouldn't stop yelling at me." Natalie says.

"Because you were going towards a fucking tree!" Dean exclaims.

"Sammy?" Natalie looks at her twin for help.

"You do suck at driving." He says. Natalie looks at him in betrayal.

"I'm never babysitting for you again." She tells him. Sam quietly laughs, knowing she'd do anything to spend time with Libby.

"Look, man, you're worried about us. We get it, and thank you, but I'm perfectly okay." Sam tells Dean.

"I second that for myself." Natalie says.

"Mm-hmm." Dean hums, not at all believing them.

"All right, where are we?" Sam asks, grabbing a map.

"We are just outside of Grand Junction." Dean says.

"You know what? Maybe we shouldn't have left Stanford so soon." Sam says.

"Sam, we dug around there for a week. We came up with nothing. If you wanna find the thing that killed Jessica, and we assume killed Noah--"

"We gotta find dad first." Sam says.

"Dad disappearing and this thing showing up again after twenty years, it's no coincidence." Dean says. "Dad will have answers. He'll know what to do." Natalie rolls her eyes.

"These coordinates he left us. This Blackwater Ridge." Sam says.

"What about it?" Dean asks.

"There's nothing there. It's just woods." Sam states. "Why is he sending us to the middle of nowhere?"

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"So Blackwater Ridge is pretty remote." Sam says as the three walk into the ranger station. Sam looks at a 3D map of the forest and he's holding Libby while Dean and Natalie walk around, looking at the rest of the place and Ophelia is holding Dean's hand. "It's cut off by these canyons here, rough terrain, dense forest, abandoned silver and gold mines all over the place."