...and Carry On (TWO)- Eden Marie Series Part 4
Characters: Dean Winchester, Mary Winchester, Castiel, OC Eden
Warnings: Violence, Mention of blood, plus I don’t know how you guy would rate this but Dean could appear (verbally) abusive towards Eden
Episode: Keep Calm and Carry On (12x01)
Summary: Dean struggles with taking his daughter along, Mary trying to connect with Eden
After the Winchesters and Castiel had stopped by at Jamie Ross’, the guy who drove the car in which Sam had been kidnapped, they were on their way to an animal clinic somewhere near Kansas City. The awkward silence during the entire car ride made Eden regret leaving her headphones at home.
“So, Eden,” her dad started, “ where have you spent the last few days?”
The teenager, who had been staring out of the window the whole time, was surprised to be spoken to “I-I was at Matt’s.”
“Your not-so-boyfriend Matt?” he asked and glanced through the rearview mirror to see her nod,“Poor guy thinks you love him.” He pulled over in front of a white house. “That’s the address the guy gave us. We’ll check it out. Eden, you stay put!”
Eden looked at him quizzically, “Why would you take me alone in the first place if all I get to do is to stay in the car?”
“I am not going to discuss this with you right now,” Dean answered her before he closed the door. Eden wondered why she still was questioning her father decisions. What was going on in his head will forever be a mystery to her.
After a few minutes of walking around the house and looking through window Mary, Dean and Cass went back to the car.
“No one’s home!” Mary informed her granddaughter.
“Yeah, I figured that much.” Eden rolled her eyes. Suddenly her father turned around in his seat just to stare at her with his jaw clenched. She shut up and looked down at her hands.
They drove back to the small coffee shop, which they had passed half an hour ago. This time Eden was allowed to leave the car, but she had to stay with her dad who seemed to be pretty mad at her.
“Now listen up young lady!” Dean said strictly after he made sure that Cass and Mary couldn’t hear them, “You will lose that attitude right now, or you wish you haven’t gotten out of your fake boyfriend’s bed this morning!”
“I’m not having an attitude!” Eden muttered under her breath.
Dean pointed his finger at her “See, that’s exactly what I’m talking about! You do not act like that around elders, it’s disrespectful, especially not around my mother! You know in what negative light this casts me?”
So that’s what this is about, Eden thought.
“Did I make myself clear, Eden Marie?” he asked his daughter.
“Yes, Sir!” she answered quickly.
Eden turned around and rolled her eyes before she walked over to sit down with Mary. Her grandmother appeared to be dazed if not scared of her surroundings. The teen wished she could say something to calm her down a little, but she couldn’t think of anything. Instead, she just tried to give her a weak smile. Mary just smiled back.
The rest of their trip Eden tried to keep herself in the background. After a quick visit at Dr. Marion’s, where Dean got the phone number of the woman who held Sam captive, they were heading back home. During the ride, Eden noticed the looks Cass was shooting at her. She knew he was worried about.
When Eden turned round to him to let him know that she was fine, another car hit her father’s Impala. Eden’s head hit the window before she slid over to Castiel, who protectively wrapped his arms around her. Dean tried to control the car by slamming on the break, which made it stop.
“Are you alright?” Cass asked Eden.
She rubbed her forehead where she hit the window, “Yeah, yeah, I’m okay…I guess?” For a few seconds, she saw her dad in front of her double.
“Mom?” he yelled reaching out for Mary.
Eden and Cass leaned over the front seat, where the angel placed his hand on Mary’s shoulder, “She’s unconscious, but there’s no serious damage”
“Alright, help her! And you Eden, you don’t move a muscle, okay!” Dean said as he got out of his car.
Eden didn’t answer because she knew this wasn’t a question. She watched how Cass left the backseat to help Mary, then her eyes wandered over to her dad, who had a pretty tight grip on some other woman’s collar. Suddenly they started fighting where the brunet succeeded to take down Dean, then Cass.
“Looking for this?” Eden could hear her say.
She ducked down in the car as the woman turned around to the Impala. As she looked up again she spotted her dad’s gun lying on the trunk. Dean and Cass were both crawling around on the ground and the brunet had turned her back on Eden, so the girl took the chance and got out of the car, but before she could grab the gun the brunet had punched her in the face and pushed her against the car. That was enough for Eden to pass out.
“Hey, hey, Sweetheart, can you hear me?”
Someone tried to wake Eden up. She slowly opened her eyes to look into her grandmother’s face.
“Oh, hey, Sweetie.” Mary held her granddaughter’s head in her hands. “Is everything okay? Do you feel like vomiting?”
Eden looked around confusingly. Her Dad and Cass placed the brunet’s lifeless body in the trunk of her car. She glanced back at Mary and shook her head.
Mary stared at her for a second, then helped her getting back on two feets.
“My head hurts a little,” Eden told her, still staring around disoriented. Her head hurt like a bitch and she felt a little shaky. “Um- Uh” she stuttered.
“We’re gonna get you home soon,” Mary said, while Eden sat back down in the car.
“I-I shouldn’t have done this,” Eden said slowly, “I did a bad thing.”
“No, Sweetheart, you wanted to help, that’s totally fine. That’s nothing bad,” Mary tried to calm her down.
“But Daddy will be so mad at me.” she started to shake even more.
The older woman stroked her hair, “No, I’m sure he won’t. You’re just extremely confused and need some rest.”
Eden saw her dad walking up to them.
“May I?” he asked his mother, who stood up and took a few steps back. “Let me see that” Dean cupped Eden’s chin and turned her head so he could see where the brunet had punched her. There was a proper bruise on her left cheekbone. “Does it hurt?”
“Yes,” his daughter answered him.
“Well that’s what you get for disobeying,” he said and let go of her chin, “Now go and help Cass!”
Eden did as she was told, leaving Dean alone with his mother.
“Why did you do this?” Mary asked while she watched Eden stumbling away.
“You don’t have to be so hard on her!”
Dean sighed, “If I wouldn’t she would’ve died years ago. It’s not easy for me to always be the bad cop, but I’m going it for her own good. Not because I hate her.”
“Well, okay, but she was trying to help and she’s still alive. So you should give her a break. I bet she got a concussion.”
“She wouldn’t have gotten one if she stayed in the car!” Dean meant, trying to defend his opinion.
“Oh, Dean!” Mary rolled her eyes over her son.
She knew that Dean and Eden had a lot to work on.
A/N: I know Eden’s and Dean’s relationship is confusing and you’re probably missing Sam. He’ll be back in the next chapter, which will (finally) contain some fluff.