[IC] Supernatural-My Battle (FuriePhoenix+AnnaBeth)

[JustAnna]

Dean dropped her hand, stepping around to the back of her car. He popped the trunk open, and tossed their bags in, taking a deep breath at how lucky they had managed to get on this super failed hunt. He smirked as one of his jackets caught his eye, and he reached into the trunk and pulled it, leaving behind the small duffel that it had covered. Holding it in his hand, he shut the trunk and walked around to the passenger side of the car.

“And for my best girl.”, he teased, shaking the jacket out roughly, before stepping up close to Mika’s back. He draped the shoulders of the old leather jacket over her shoulders, and leaned in to place a soft kiss against the back of her neck, “And if you call me sweet, I swear to God I will pull the car over…”

He chuckled and reached down to unlock her door. Once unlocked, he pulled it open, and held his hand against the top of the door frame to give her room to sit down in the seat. Once he was happy that her legs were in the car, he shut the door carefully and walked around to the drivers side, instantly looking over at her with a smirk.

“And you always did look better in my clothes than I did.”, he said with a slightly cheerful smile. He started the car, putting it in drive and then brought his hand over to rest against her thigh as he pulled out of the motel parking lot, to head back to what would likely be a very angry Bobby Singer.

[FuriePhoenix]

Mika didn't really pay too much attention to what Dean was doing until he spoke up a d called her his best girl. It made her look toward him and smile as he walked up close to her, draping the old jacket of his that he clearly found in her trunk over her shoulders. She held the jacket close to her as he kissed her neck before softly chuckling as he gave her a word of warning about calling him sweet.

"oh as if I'd ever do something so reckless" she teased back, acting like calling him sweet was far more reckless than going into a serious hunt alone would be. She stepped away from the door as he unlocked it for her due to him having the keys and opened the door, allowing her to step forward again and one foot at a time, stepped inside and sat down in the passenger seat, a place she had grown to get accustomed to since her and Dean had learned to share the driving to give each other breaks.

She let him close the door after her and come round to the driver's side as she checked her phone to make sure there were no emergency messages from Bobby or possibly anyone else, not that she had many contacts. With the sound of the driver's door closing she put her phone in the jacket pocket, smiling back at him and chuckling once more at his comment.

"and I always prefer you out of your clothes so it's a win win" she joked as he started the engine and began the short drive back to Bobby's, her hand ontop of his, nervous about how Bobby was going to react to their two pieces of news. With her other hand she held his jacket close to her still, enjoying the comfort it always brought her, whether he was with her or not.

[JustAnna]

Dean squeezed Mika’s hand at her joking back at him, waggling his eyebrows, “Hey now, I’m trying to drive.”

He chuckled the humor calming his nerves a bit as they made their way to Bobby’s. It didn’t take long to get there. The junkyard coming into view almost quicker than he had remembered leaving it. Maybe it was because he was a bit nervous, or maybe it was just because he was also eager to get back. Either way, he pulled through the large steel gates and drove Mika’s car around to the back garage area, pulling it under the awning.

Putting the car in park, he turned to Mika with a smile, “Might as well get this overwith.”

But before he could exit the car, Bobby stepped out into the garage. Dean sighed and stepped out of the car and held his hands up over the roof as he stood with the door open. Bobby raised an eyebrow, “You guys are back awful quick. Is everything okay?”

“Well, not so much. See. I’m gonna cut to the chase, because this conversation is going to last a while, and I have a feeling that this part is the least painful.”, Dean started, placing his hands flat against the roof and then he stepped back from the door and closed it. Walking around the back of the car, he stepped up in front of Bobby and sighed, “We had to leave the case.”

“You what?! You left those people to fight against those…those things?!”, Bobby asked in an exasperated but not screaming voice.

“They were skin walkers and yes. The town is run by skin walkers. We were out gunned and out manned and Mika almost got hurt. This lady came and threatened me, and told me about the rest of the town.”, Dean continued to explain. Bobby huffed, placing both his hands on his hips, “Why don’t the three of us step inside, get a drink…and talk about some things.”

Bobby glanced to Mika and narrowed his eyes, “What sorts of things?”

[FuriePhoenix]

Dean's laugh was always infectious to Mika, so when he chuckled she too chuckled, especially when he remarked on trying to drive. The drive did seem to feel like it went by quicker than it did when they were coming to the town, part of her wished it was longer because she was nervous about how her uncle was going to react to their various pieces of information, and the other part of her was excited to be leaving the town of skin walkers behind and not risk their lives again.

Back at home, car in the awning area where she liked to have it, she looked at Dean back and smiled. "yeah, sooner rather than later" she agreed, getting out of the car as she Bobby emerge looking surprised that they were back so soon. Closing the passenger side door she stood by the car as he questioned their early return. She let Dean take the lead on the talking for the most part and internally sighed when Bobby gave his all too familiar exasperated tone at the news they had to quit the hunt.

When Bobby looked at her with narrowed eyes, she briefly looked down toward her feet before looking back up at him again. "let's just chat inside" she mumbled sheepishly, walking inside via the back door that linked to the garage, suddenly feeling like a little kid again, all down to that look he gave her.

She waited for the others to get inside and she sat down on the couch. "when it comes to the hunt, it's just like Dean said, that town is run by skin walkers, one of them got jump on me and if it wasn't for Dean having the upper hand on another one I would have been a goner. That town needs more experienced hunters and a much larger group than two of them."she explained. "as for the other thing? Umm, well, when Dean decides to head back to his dad... I wanna go with him" she sheepishly told Bobby.

[JustAnna]

Bobby reluctantly chose to follow Mika, causing Dean to take a deep and nervous breath, following behind him. When they stepped into the house, Dean went straight to the couch and sat down next to Mika, which caused Bobby to narrow his eyes again as he leaned against his desk. If they were sitting together, it meant that they both had something to tell him. Were they pregnant? Were they planning to leave?

He leaned back carefully and crossed his arms as Mika started to explain the situation. He nodded about the skinwalkers, figuring that he could call up some of his older guys to go in and see if it was even a case worth fighting, at this point.

However, when Mika got to the part about Dean taking her when he returned to John, Bobby’s frown deepened and his eyes shot to Dean, causing Dean’s hands to come up in front of him defensively, “I can take care of her. You know that. You send us out all the time. And we’ll be staying in the same room. I just have to talk to dad.”

“I don’t even trust YOU with John! How the hell am I supposed to sleep knowing you’re both out there being used as bait, and runners, and god knows what else while with him?!”, Bobby erupted, causing Dean to flinch.

“We’ll take our own cases! I’ll make sure that if Dad comes along, he’s on his own. He would probably prefer it to having to patch me up every other day, anyway, Bobby!”, Dean almost yelled back at him in defense.

“And when he says no? You’re going to tell your dad no? I know you better than you know yourself, Dean Winchester. I don’t believe for a second that you would defy an order. Your daddy tells you to jump and you ask him how high…”, Bobby scolded Dean, and Dean’s eyes turned to the floor in submission. It was partially true. He rarely stood up to John. Hell, it was a big reason why Sam had run off the way he did, when he did. Sam knew he would never get to Stanford, if he didn’t run, because Dean was horrible at taking up for him, with John.

“Usually, no. But she will. And I’ll back her up. I won’t make the same mistakes I made with Sammy.”, Dean almost whispered, causing Bobby’s face to soften. His eyes fell on Mika.

“What in the world makes you want to do this? You know how John is. You know how he feels about you bein’ around, and you want to just throw yourself in front of him and hope he lets you stay?”, Bobby asked Mika, with raised eyebrows.

[FuriePhoenix]

Seeing Bobby follow her inside and then proceed to narrow his eyes at her and Dean sitting together, Mika suddenly felt even more nervous about telling them what they had decided, but she did it anyway as she knew she couldn't stall for time with Bobby.

When Bobby absolutely erupted into full blown disagreement and borderline worried anger at their news, Dean wasn't the only one that flinched as Mika also flinched as Dean practically yelled bsck defensively at their decision to go together. She knew Bobby wouldn't like the idea, Hell's, they both knew it but she also knew it was out of how protective he was over her. After everything he had witnessed with her upbringing it was no wonder that he was hesitant about the idea.

The yelling between the two men made her remain silent and look down at her lap, her fingers clenching tightly shut on her thighs as she just listened to them yell back and forth their points of view. She knew deep down that both had valid points, Dean did rarely stand up to his dad unless it was about Sam, but even then she knew Sam was always the one to regularly stand up to John and Sam wasn't around anymore.

When the room feel quieter, she knew that what Dean seem to say seemed to have some kind of effect and she looked back up at Bobby. "I know he dislikes me greatly, but Bobby-" she sighed mid sentence, before continuing, "I don't wanna be apart from Dean anymore. I love Dean and John quite frankly needs to accept that truth even if he doesn't accept us. I'm better when I'm with Dean, we work well together and I know I'll just be distracted if I'm away from him, wondering if he's still alive or if John has practically left him for dead... Again" she explained.

She knew how cliché her reply was sounding but she didn't know how else to explain her reasons, especially as at the end of the day, it really did bottle down to her love for Dean. "I trust Dean with my life Bobby" she added, now starting to think any other news would have been welcomed by Bobby than what they actually told him.

[JustAnna]

Bobby stomped his foot lightly, knowing that there was nothing he could do to stop her from wanting to leave with Dean. It had always been this way, and deep down, he knew the day would come where she would want to do more hunting…with Dean. He stepped back and leaned against his desk with a long sigh at her words, raising a hand to rub his brow.

“I know you do. I think that’s what scares me. Dean, you’re young. You’re reckless and half the time, you need someone to save your ass. You’re better off here, than you are out there, and you know it.”, he turned his gaze to Dean, who shrugged his shoulders.

“Maybe you’re right, Bobby, but you know as well as I do that Dad isn’t just gonna let me vacation at your house for the rest of my life. If he comes back…when…when he comes back, he’s going to want me to go with him. I don’t want you trying to get in his way.”, Dean spoke more even, now, his face completely reasonable and even, “He’ll want me back in rotation. With Mika there, we can take care of each other.”

Bobby sighed, “Look at you now! Run out of town because you went in too hot!”

“And we still got out of it okay! That means we know when to bow out, if things get too heavy!”, Dean argued, gesturing with his hands. Bobby shook his head.

“And the werewolves that almost gutted you?! Did you know when to bow out then?!”, Bobby practically yelled again, exasperated. Dean held up a hand.

“I was alone! How do you bow out when you have to kill your way out?! With two of us, they would have never gotten that far, and I probably wouldn’t have even been hurt. I need a partner that’s not dad, and I want to take her with me. You can either let her go, or try to make her stay, but you know she’ll end up following me, either way.”, Dean said with finality, turning his eyes toward the floor. He was tying Bobby’s hands, giving Mika the full choice of leaving or staying.

Bobby raised his nose toward the ceiling in a long and understanding nod, “Well. You’re right. I can’t make this decision for you, but I don’t like it. We’ll talk about it more when John calls.”

He stepped away from his desk and walked around to grab one of the phones on the wall, to call in his hunters to take care of the town Dean and Mika had left behind. Dean sighed, feeling both defeated and relieved that Bobby was just letting the situation go for now.

[FuriePhoenix]

Mika let Bobby say his point of view more, knowing it was better for him to get all his reservations about this whole plan out the way now rather than make him be silent and dwell on them. Bobby would always be more of her father than her actual father was to her, and despite her stubborn decision to leave home with Dean when the time came, she did care deeply about what he thought an dloved him dearly.

She continued to sit there and let the men discuss everything between them, when she could hear and see them get heated once more even though she fully agreed with Dean's comments about them being able to look after each other. She flinched slightly as Bobby brought up the example of the werewolves practically gutting Dean, knowing Dean would have to have a damn good counter if Bobby was to back down after that and luckily for Dean, he did have a good counter.

Mika was about to say speak up when Bobby spoke before her and echoed her comments she hadn't even said, without him even knowing it. As he walked away she too sighed and leaned sideways, placing her head on Dean's shoulder. "could have gone worse I guess" she quietly remarked to him, not wanting to be too loud whilst Bobby on the phone, to try and find a hunter or several to finish the job they couldn't. "but thanks for having my back" she added, weaving one arm through his and her other arm over his same arm as a sort of hug action.

"I just hope he does let me go when the day comes" she sighed, always worried that Bobby would go back on his word because that was what her own biological father would do. There was no way she would bail out on going with Dean, and if it did mean she snuck out at night to try and catch up to Dean, she would sure as hell do it, even if it mesnt she left an apology letter to Bobby in the process.

"on another note, I can't help but feel he would have reacted better to some mundane normal announcement than this" she sadly smirked, as she was far from amused by her thinking but it was a fact she was thinking nonetheless.

[JustAnna]

Dean brought his hand up and brushed his fingers down Mika’s jaw as she laid her head on his shoulder. He took a deep breath and nodded, “Yeah. He didn’t really explode like I expected, but maybe that’s because he saw this coming at some point. I always come back. It was only a matter of time until you came out on the road with me.”

He smirked and leaned his head down against hers as she hugged his arm, “I’ll always have your back. And I can’t promise that he’ll still be as forgiving as he is right now, but he’ll let you go…one way or another. You’re not a kid anymore.”

Dean furrowed his brow at Mika’s last words, almost wanting to ask what she meant, but a few ideas flew through his mind. Bobby never reacted to surprises well, regardless the circumstance. If you told him you forgot to change the oil on your car until 10,000 miles, it wasn’t uncommon for him to lose his mind, and fly off the handle.

“What, like marriage? I think his brain would have exploded, if we told him that.”, he chuckled, and stroked his fingers through her hair, “How’s your face feeling, by the way?”

[FuriePhoenix]

Mika was glad that she wasn't the only one thinking it could have gone a lot worse than it did, even if it could have gone better at the same time. As much as she adored Bobby and saw him more of a father than just her uncle, she knew just as well as Dean and Sam did that he could be highly unpredictable when it came to what he would explode over. She was just thankful he was a lot more open minded to a broader amount of things than her actual father ever was. "that it was, I wasn't going to stay here forever without you. I think deep down, he knows that as well as we do" she replied, finding comfort in him stoking her jaw.

At the 'you're not a kid anymore' comment she couldn't help but smirk, that she most certainly wasn't. Neither of them were, and after everything that life had thrown at them she was certain she hadn't just been a kid for a very long time. She didn't need to look at him either to know he was trying to figure out what she could possibly could have meant by her last comment of 'mundane things' and she chuckled at his idea that came to his mind. That was one thing that came to mind, amongst others.

She let him continue talking before chuckling softly, "yeah, knowing him he'd utterly freak out at that, but let's face it, he'd probably prefer that to say, I dunno.. I'm pregnant or something" she pointed out, most definitely not pregnant but could easily imagine how Bobby would react to that news when they were still quite young, "as for my face? It's tender but nothing I can't deal with" she added.

Though as she thought about it, the idea of living some mundane life that didn't involve hunting with Dean wasn't all that terrifying, or unappealing. In fact it was greatly the opposite for her. It was just everyone else that seemed to not believe they could do such a thing in their future.

[JustAnna]

Dean smiled, hearing the words ‘i wasn’t going to stay here forever without you’ caused his heart to flutter in his chest. It had been a while since he and Mika had actually had a fight, and while things were good, and the cycle hadn’t made it that far around, yet, he wanted to take full advantage. Hearing that she had always known she wanted to come with him just cemented that further.

Dean nearly choked, however, when the words ‘I’m pregnant’ left her lips. Even in context, the words almost knocked him over and he gasped, a shudder ripping through him, “Well um. I don’t know that the um…pregnancy would likely not be taken as a mundane thing for Bobby. Jesus Christ he would kill me. I don’t even know if I could handle it…phew.”

He placed his hand over his chest, feigning a heart attack and chuckled but ran his finger tips over the bruise on her cheek. He watched her face as she turned over the ideas of a normal life in her head, and he knew that look all too well, after all the years they had been together. He couldn’t imagine it, not truly, just because he had always seen himself as a grunt. But when she daydreamed about it, he couldn’t help but wonder what a white picket fence life would look like for them.

“Although, Bobby raising yet another kid might actually calm his ass down.”, he offered, letting her know that he was thinking about those random mundane dreams of a normal life, too. He leaned in and pressed a soft kiss to her lips, nuzzling her nose with his as he pulled back to look at her eyes, “What do you wanna do tonight?”

[FuriePhoenix]

Seeing the reaction she got from Dean over the P word just made her smirk and snigger, sure she did think she was no where near ready to think about that sort of thing and in their lifestyle there was no way she would want to raise a child in the hunter world anyway. She didn't want to ever risk demons or some monster getting to their child as a way to get to the two of them, but that didn't mean she didn't still daydream of what their lives could be like if they weren't hunters.

Despite how much much tougher she had gotten, just as Dean had reminded her a few times, there was still an element of that young hopeless romantic inside her that did dream about having a normal life with Dean, growing old with him and having a family, a nice house...the typical normal things any person unaffected by the supernatural dark depths had. "oH he would definitely kill you, no doubt about it" she smirked.

She let him run his fingers across her cheek, knowing he wouldn't be fully happy with it until it started to fade, too busy daydreaming to even flinch at the touch over the bruising. It was when he spoke up and said what he did about Bobby having other kids to look after other than them two that made her chuckle. "Yeah, you're probably right." she said as he leaned in and kissed her softly on the lips, which she returned before he nuzzled her nose as she always liked.

"Hmm, good question. Takeout and a movie or something?" she suggested after giving it a little think over, never being able to come up with anything different or particularly exciting. "This might surprise you but I'm really craving pizza" she smiled, making her own joke about her usually very healthy eating habits whilst also really putting emphasis on the word 'really'. "And we deserve it after 1) escaping a town of skinwalkers and 2) surviving Bobby's disapproval at our news" she smirked.

[JustAnna]

Dean raised his eyebrows when Mika mentioned that takeout and a movie sounded nice for them to unwind with. It had been a while since they had just had a lazy night, eating junk food in bed and watching some stupid movie or tv show. Dean was honestly excited for the idea, as foreign as it seemed, now days. He raised his eyebrows even further when Mika agreed to pizza, even going as far as to say that she was craving it.

“You’re sure you’re not pregnant…”, Dean muttered with his eyebrows raised, and then his face broke out into a wide smile, and he shrugged his shoulders.

“I think we deserve a quiet night in. I think pizza sounds good. We can do half and half, since you like all of your veggie stuff and I like all of my meat stuff, and then we’ll snuggle and canoodle in bed while we rest…until Bobby finds something for us to do, is more likely.”, he smirked and stood from the couch. Without asking, he reached down and picked up her hand, pulling her up with him, and against his chest, “You call for the pizza. I’ll get our bed ready for movie night, and I guess if you want to pick the movie, I’m fine with it. You came out a bit worse on this hunt than I did.”

He laughed and kissed her nose, before planting another firm kiss against her lips for emphasis, “I love you”

[FuriePhoenix]

Dean's eyebrows being raised was an expected reaction by Mika, but when he made the remark he did, she couldn't help but chuckle and playfully nudge him in the arm, "cheeky sod!" she retorted with, even though she probably should have expected such a remark after the conversation they had only moments ago. She knew she had utterly walked into that comment by Dean but that didn't mean she wasn't going to playfully hit him for said comment.

She listened to him however agree to the idea, and clearly by his tone he was more than happy by the idea which just made her happy. She smirked at the ideas of cuddling and canoodling in bed before Bobby decides he wanted them to do something productive. As he grabbed her hand, she let him pull her up onto her feet, her free hand instinctively pressing against his chest as she got pulled close to him.

Before she could reply to him, he made her smile by kissing the tip of her nose then kissing her properly, to which she kissed him back just as firmly. "I love you too Dean" she told him back, "I'll go make the call for pizza and meet you upstairs. Also, I usually pick the movie so I'll let you pick tonight" she told him back.

Considering how the hunt went for them, how the skinwalkers made them fail and ran them out of town quite literally, she was in a surprisingly good mood and like Dean, she was genuinely excited for the lazy night in with him and just be a typical couple like most people their age. She then reluctantly pulled away from him so she could walk to the normal phone, which she did. Getting to the phone, she rummaged for the pizza takeout menu so she could remind herself of the phone number then dialled the number and waited for someone to pick on the other end.

She tapped her fingers on her thigh as she waited and whilst she managed to get through to someone, ordering their usual of the half and half pizza, a couple of sides and even ordered a large bottle of soda that they could have on the side during their movie night. With it all ordered, she got the price so she could leave the cash out in the hallway on the cabinet and then headed upstairs to their room.

"Pizza orderd, will be about half hour they reckon" she commented.