Chapter 1

"Cas!" Dean shouted as he dove out of the way of an oncoming spell, shooting another round of iron bullets at the cackling woman in the center of the dank and dirty basement but missing his target.

They had managed to find themselves a case in New York where there had been numerous strange occurrences, from weather, to bad luck, and even death. So when they had finally come to discover that what they were dealing with was a witch, they found where she was hiding and made a move to kill the troublesome bitch. That proved to be difficult though as she threw spells at them left, right and centre as well as the fact that they were almost out of spell Molotov's.

"Any time, Cas!" He shouted again, trying to shoot the stupid bitch.

"I am trying." Castiel replied, his deep deadpanned voice strained as he too jumped to avoid being hit with a spell.

There was a slight explosion that rocked the ground beneath them that threw them off their feet and back, making the old looking hag cackle in delight as she raised her glowing hands.

"Sam!" Dean yelled.

"Get down!" Sam's voice rang out in the room. Both Dean and Cas threw themselves for cover as Sam threw a spell Molotov at the witch from where he stood a few feet from the bottom of the stairs. Being the last one they had, the glass bottle successfully struck the woman in the chest and stunned her. Taking advantage of her paralysis, both Winchester brothers took aim and shot her; Sam's bullet going through her head while Dean's found its home in her chest. With a final croak and shudder, the witch fell to the ground. Keeping their guns trained on her lifeless body for a moment with a wary eye before relaxing.

"That was… tedious." Cas said, expressing what they were all thinking.

"Yeah." Dean huffed in annoyance, walking over to the body to look down at it.

"I should go up and see how that girl is." Sam said suddenly, tucking his gun away as he turned towards the stair.

Dean turned his head to study his little brother in confusion. "Girl?" He repeated. "What girl?"

"The witch had a girl locked up in a closet." Sam jerked a thumb up towards the floor above them. "Found her when we were scoping out the place."

"What do you think she wanted with her?" Dean put his gun away as well.

"I dunno." Sam shook his head. "The witch never held anyone captive before."

"Mom?" A female voice filled with fear and dread sounded above them.

"Except maybe a daughter…" Sam realized as all three of them looked up in surprise.

"Great. Another witch." Dean muttered to himself, pulling out his gun and readying it. Meanwhile, Sam and Castiel didn't make a move to prep a weapon to defend themselves.

"Mom?" The voice called out again followed by the banging of boots against the creaking wooden stairs into the rough and unfinished basement. Almost flying down the stairs was a pale young woman with shoulder length blonde hair in dirty, almost sooty once white tank top and dark skinny jeans. Coming to a stop at the bottom of the stairs, she looked past the three men in the room to where her mother's unmoving body lay. After a moment of heavy breathing, the woman's eyes began to well up as her full bottom lip began to tremble. "Mom?" She whispered in denial before heaving out a choked sob. "Mom!" Not noticing the single gun trained on her as she ran past Sam and Dean, she dropped onto the dirt floor beside the witch's body. Rolling her over, the girl gently swept the stray black hair out of the dead woman's face as a single tear fell when she saw the smoked chest and bullet holes.

"Hey!" Dean called as he, Sam and Cas moved to block the girl's path to the stair in case she tried to escape. "Who the hell are you?"

"Mom…" Was all the girl could mumble before slowly getting to her feet.

Looking at Dean in exasperation, Sam moved forward with his hands raised. "Look, I'm sorry we killed your mom, but she was killing a lot of innocent people." He explained.

Sniffing, the girl gave a merciless laugh with her back to the boys. "You bitch," She spat lowly. "I told you that you'd get in trouble for what you were doing, but you wouldn't listen. I told you so."

The three men looked at each other, unsure what to do next. When the girl turned slightly to look at them, they saw her expression waver between one of a small and lost child and one of defense. After she gave a shuddering breath, the palms of her hands started to glow a dark blue.

"Whoah! Hey!" Dean shouted in warning, bringing his gun up to point it at her.

"We won't hurt you!" Sam shouted in promise. Looking to his brother on his left though, he rolled his eyes and smacked Dean's gun so that it was pointing to the ground rather than the girl.

Studying them in confusion, the girl didn't seem to understand what they mean until a warming sensation on her hands caught her attention and made her look down. Twisting her hand so that she could look down at her palms, her eyes grew wide in fear when she saw the growing light and energy that was there.

"No!" She whispered quietly in protest before she shook her head. "No no no no no!" Each word was spoken louder as she rubbed hands together and on her pants as though in an effort to rub away the growing light and energy.

"Perhaps we should leave." Cas eyed the girl in concern as he moved closer to his friends.

"Yeah…" Dean said unwillingly before a scream made them all jump.

"Look out!" The girl shrieked as her arms were forced up and ahead of her by an unseen force, making her palms face the two Hunters and Angel. Dean immediately dove out of the way, but Sam and Cas were not as lucky was the energy flew from the girl's like a beam and hit the two of them, filling the room with smoke and a sort of dark light, blinding them all.

A/N: More on the way, in the meantime leave me with your thoughts and ideas as to what may happen!

I also have another Supernatural fanfiction written that I'm still working on, called "The Essence of My Soul to Keep" if you'd like to check that one out. It is a teen Dean/OC story if you're interested.

I also have a SPN music video on youtube set to the song Hey Brother by Avicci if you'd like to see it. /watch?v=AFKicPRvcVQ

Thanks for reading!