Doppelganger
A very happy (belated) birthday to strangevisitor7!
Title: Doppelganger
Author: divas_lament
Emotional and Brainstorming Support: fonapola
Rated: PG-13
Fandom: Supernatural, Smallville & Highlander
Characters: From The Immortal!Dean Universe by strangevisitor7 : Dean Winchester, Richie Ryan, JD Winchester, Katie Collins & MJ Winchester, Mule Winchester. From pen37 : Chloe from Meta!Chloe verse. From my Spawn Verse: Holly & Andrew Winchester.
Summary: Dean finds out JD gets a girlfriend that has a freakish resemblance to one of the mirror-jumpers and JD is in denial of this fact. Dean corrects this in the only way he knows how. Follow-up to That Went Well. APOCO!SPAWN.
There it was, leaning against the wall. Amidst the decor in the room, the mirror blended in perfectly, looking completely innocent among her brother's sparse furniture and the glass wall. The floor length mirror had traveled quite a ways to get to the Gotham penthouse. She had no idea of its story before it appeared in her Grandpa John's storage locker. From there, it resided in her purple bedroom in Smallville and her apartment in Metropolis.
The mirror had been in her life for more than a decade now. Running her hand along the runes etched into the frame, she looked upon the object sadly. More than anything she wished she could turn the dial at that moment and just pop out somewhere on the other side.
When she up and left years ago, she hadn't given any thought to the people on the other side of the mirror. It wasn't until one Thursday a month later when she realized she had made plans to meet JD for lunch that the realization sunk in and guilt began to course through her.
She wondered what he was up to now. Andrew had moved the mirror to Gotham after she frantically called him one night, telling him that he needed to keep the mirror safe - leaving it in her apartment in Metropolis with no one around wasn't a good idea. Since the mirror's move, Andrew had seen JD and Mule a few times, but with Andrew's insane work schedule due to the League, the visits had been few and far between.
It had been about four years since she had gone, maybe a little more.
“You sure you want to stay here?” Andrew asked as he entered the room, straightening his tie. “You’d have more stuff to do at the Manor…”
“I’d much rather have unlimited access to your TV to catch up on all the shows I’ve missed,” Holly said, tearing her gaze away from the mirror. “Can’t do that with all the people milling about in the Manor."
“You just want to go through my stuff,” he accused, eyes narrowed.
“Me? Never,” she smirked.
“Or you want a free pass to the mirror.”
Holly sighed. “I think my mirror jumping days are over.”
“What makes you say that?”
“It’s been too long.”
Andrew glanced at her, pulling on his suit jacket. He was going to an illegal meeting - Bruce had arranged for them to meet with some trusted people sympathetic to their cause against Lex’s law.
“I thought you’d say it’d be like riding a bike,” he said lightly.
“Yeah, well, I’ve got a date with your couch and the remote,” she responded.
---
Three hours into her marathon of an old sitcom, Holly heard a rustling in her brother’s room. Her brow furrowed as she glanced over to look at the doorway. She was ready to reach for a gun when she heard an excited voice call out:
“Andrew! Andrew? You here?”
Holly’s mouth opened slightly in shock. What the hell? She stood, tossing the remote down on the couch. In a few quick steps she crossed the room and nearly collided with the man exiting from Andrew’s bedroom.
“Dean?” Holly asked, brow furrowed in confusion.
He looked at her suspiciously for a second before grinning. “Just the person I wanted to see!”
Her brow rose. “You were just calling for Andrew.”
“How the hell would I know you’d be here?” Dean said defensively. “Where the hell have you been, kid?”
There was no accusation in his tone. Just a straightforward question as if she had left the room for a while and just showed back up instead of being gone for a few years.
“Around,” she said with a small smile. “Europe, mostly.”
“Got some time?” He asked. “I’ve got something to show you.”
---
“Weird.”
“Hilarious.”
“Weird,” Holly reiterated, staring at the photographs taken off Dean’s camera. “I mean, there are differences but….” She shifted uncomfortably. “Weird.”
“JD doesn’t even realize it,” Dean said, leaning back into the couch and drinking a beer he had swiped out of the fridge. Andrew had a good mix in there - imported and the classics. “She reminds me of Chloe and Katie, too.”
“Tell me you didn’t go for the incest joke.”
Dean grinned. “Someone had to.”
“Oh god,” Holly laughed, shaking her head.
“Hey, I got an idea,” Dean said, sitting up quickly. “What are you doing this weekend?”
Holly hesitated, wondering what this idea was. The gleam in his eye was something she felt weary about. She recognized it - after all, she inherited the same one. Usually, that gleam came before one of her brilliant (or not so brilliant) ideas.
Plus, she didn’t even know what next week was going to be like. Helping metahumans evade law enforcement? Teaching the League how to handle weapons? She had explained the situation to Dean earlier, half-wondering if the same thing was going on in his universe.
“She’s free.” Andrew answered for her as he entered the apartment and typed in the security alarm code. “How’s it going, Dean?”
“Good, good,” Dean said. “What’s with the monkey suit?”
“Work,” Andrew answered, loosening his tie around his neck and going to grab a beer from the fridge.
“Wait a minute, hold up,” Holly spoke, looking at her brother. “Since when do you encourage mirror jumping?”
“Since you’ve taken up residence on my couch,” Andrew replied with a shrug. “There’s only so many chick flicks I can take.”
---
JD walked around the car, opening the door for Hannah. She climbed out, looking at JD’s childhood home, carrying a plate of brownies. JD fidgeted awkwardly. It wasn’t often he brought girls home…or at all. At least since he had gotten his apartment.
“We can leave anytime,” JD said as they walked up the front path.
“JD, I don’t know what you’re worrying about,” Hannah said. “It’s your family, of course I want to meet them!”
He normally wouldn’t be worried. Ever since his mom found out about Hannah from Uncle Richie she had been nagging him to bring Hannah by. In her words, she wanted to meet the “girl that got her son so whipped he was singing emo rock.” She told him he had better bring her to the barbeque they were having that weekend to celebrate Robbie’s birthday. And Uncle Dean had been acting weird lately, avoiding JD. Somehow, he had a feeling the two things were connected.
JD shrugged slightly, pushing open the front door. People were crowded in the living room, walking between there and the kitchen. Most were out in the backyard.
“Ma!” He called, closing the door behind Hannah and narrowly avoiding two giggling girls as they rushed towards the backyard.
“In the kitchen!” Katie called back.
He grasped Hannah’s hand, leading her in the direction of the kitchen just as MJ was exiting.
“Hey, MJ!” JD said, attempting to catch his sister’s attention.
“Hey, JD!” She waved, turning and heading through the crowd of people and out of the room.
Strange, JD thought. Usually the girl stuck by him like glue.
Once the introductions had been made, Katie began chatting with Hannah, trying to get the dish about the relationship because JD never told her much. He glanced out the window to see where MJ had run off to. He saw her off to the side where Mule and a blonde in a sundress were talking.
“Mule bring a girl home?” JD asked, pointing out the window.
“What?” Katie responded distractedly, pausing in her conversation with Hannah. “Start bringing some of these dishes outside.”
---
“It’s so weird,” MJ said. “She looks just like you.”
“Oh yeah?” Holly said, sipping from her drink. She couldn’t get over it. Last time she had seen MJ the girl had been begging her to French braid her hair and now she was almost in high school and dating. Poor thing. Holly just had David and Andrew to deal with as Jack couldn’t care less who she dated. MJ had seven Winchester men and a handful of Immortals watching out for her. It was a miracle she was let out of the house.
“Yeah,” she nodded. “Except you’re a little taller and your hair’s a little darker ….and you’ve got a tan...”
“We get it, MJ,” Mule said, taking a drink of his beer. “Hannah is Holly’s freakish clone.”
The back door opened with JD, Hannah, and Katie filing out with trays of food to put on the table. Robbie, and what appeared to be half the senior class, practically filled the backyard, creating enough of an obstacle to see from where MJ, Holly, and Mule were standing.
“Now that I’m seeing her in person, she really does look like Grace and Mary, too,” Holly said distantly, mind beginning to wander and wonder how her sisters from other dimensions were doing. She would definitely have to find some time to go visit them and Chance. “Well, except the hair being dyed a crazy color and I don’t think she has knives strapped to her ankles.”
“You do realize that Grace and Mary are your sisters, right?” Mule responded, brow rising in amusement. “Genetics kind of dictate you’d all look similar.”
Holly glanced over at him, the corner of her mouth twitching upwards. “You’re growing a backbone in your old age. I’m not sure I like it.”
“I thought Dean was lying through his teeth when he said he was getting you to come,” Richie said as he walked over, having spotted them through the crowd of teenagers.
Holly smiled, giving Richie a hug. “Yeah, well, he caught me at the right time.”
“It’s been quiet without you around.”
“Now, that’s a lie,” Holly responded, rolling her eyes.
“Worth a shot.” Richie shrugged his shoulder. “So, where you been?”
“All over. I get around.”
Richie knew all too well the nomadic tendencies of the Winchester clan. “I would expect no less from a Winchester.”
“I’m telling Dean you called me a whore,” Holly deadpanned.
“I walked into that, didn’t I?” Richie grimaced. Mule nodded with a smile.
---
Chloe glanced over at Dean carefully. He had that look about him that made her suspicious. As Dean drove to Sam’s, he was quiet, only tapping his fingers on the wheel in time with the music. A self-satisfied smirk was on his face.
“What are you so smug about?” Chloe asked, unable to keep her questions at bay any longer.
Dean glanced over at her, offering her a shrug in response. “Nothing.”
“I don’t know what you planned, but if you wreck this for Robbie, Katie is going to skin you alive and I’m not going to do a thing to stop her,” she said, looking out the window.
“Don’t worry about Robbie.”
Chloe’s brow rose. “Who should I be worrying about then?”
Dean grinned.
---
“I don’t know what you were so worried about,” Hannah said after Katie left to go back inside to get more food ready. “Your family is great.”
“You’ve only met my Mom and the twins,” JD said quietly, grabbing some drinks out of the adult cooler.
“And your two uncles,” she pointed out with a smile.
“Yeah,” he muttered under his breath before taking a drink. That’s what I’m worried about.
---
It did not take long for Dean to find JD in the crowd of partygoers when they arrived. He zeroed in on his nephew and Hannah within moments and quickly headed in their direction. The grin on Dean’s face immediately roused suspicion in JD. Dean hated this sort of party, especially after the last one when someone questioned if Dean was one of Sam’s kids. There was no reason to be as damn cheerful as he was. It was unnerving.
“JD!” Dean called as he and Chloe made their way over to them. “Hannah, lovely to see you again. This is my girlfriend, Chloe.”
“Chloe Sullivan?” Hannah asked, a smile coming to her face. “It’s nice to meet you. I’ve read some of your articles in the Planet…”
“You did something,” JD said quietly, frowning at his uncle as Hannah and Chloe chatted.
“Me?” Dean asked innocently. “I just got here.”
“Why are you so damn happy then?”
“No reason,” he shrugged. “Just heard from an old friend, she’s like a daughter to me, you know…Anyway, I’m going to go get a beer.” He turned towards Hannah. “Want the grand tour? I doubt JD’s given you the real dirt on everyone.”
As Hannah walked away with his Uncle and Chloe, JD’s mind raced.
Like a daughter?
He needed to find Mule.
---
“There you are,” JD said, relieved when he finally saw Hannah again after she had wandered off with Dean. He hadn't found Mule, but that could wait. There were more pressing matters at hand. There really was no telling what Dean had told her. Dean had years of embarrassing stories and other nasty tidbits that JD really didn’t want getting out. “Thought you might have gotten lost.”
She grinned at him. “Sorry, was just sidetracked. Your sister said your cousin -“
“My cousin?” JD asked in confusion.
“Yeah, the blonde one,” Hannah nodded.
Mary? “Tall and scary?”
“She’s was kinda tall, but not very scary,” she answered, brow furrowing slightly in confusion.
“Pink streaks in her hair?”
“Are we playing ‘Guess who?’” Hannah teased. “JD, seriously, you need to relax. You’ve been on edge all day and everything is going fine…”
---
Dean and Chloe were able to find the group of Winchesters and Richie fairly quickly as most of the other guests at the party was under seventeen. After catching up for a few minutes, Dean looked around the yard eagerly.
“Has he seen you yet?” Dean asked, eyes scanning the crowd. Hannah had just been with them a moment ago, but they had gotten separated when a group of teenagers had made a mad dash for the food table.
Chloe shook her head. “I can’t believe you sometimes. As much as I love to see Holly, JD is nervous enough with bringing Hannah here in the first place and you decide to open a whole can of worms by having Holly here who doesn’t even exist in this universe. Not to mention the fact that Hannah does look uncannily like Holly and she might get some more weird, less supernatural, ideas about this family?”
“I didn’t really think of that,” he admitted, some of the glee that had been on his face moments ago fading away. An awkward silence passed through the group.
“So, in other news…Richie called me a whore,” Holly said, pointing to the man that could now probably pass as her younger brother.
“That’s not what I meant,” Richie responded dryly. “She’s twisting my words around.”
“Mule heard it.”
“I’m staying out of this,” Mule said, a smile on his face that slowly fell away. “But Chloe’s right, you know. As fun as teasing JD would be, there would be a lot of questions from Hannah that I don’t think JD is ready to answer.”
Holly nodded, looking up at him. “Wanna give me a ride to the mirror?”
---
JD said he would meet Hannah out front. They’d made an appearance and he honestly couldn’t wait to leave. After prying himself away from Katie, promising that he would bring Hannah by on a day that was less chaotic, JD was finally able to make his way to the front porch. Hannah was leaning against one of the supports and he snaked his arm around her waist. What he didn’t expect was the slight zap of static electricity that shot through his arm when she touched him.
“Inappropriate touching, JD,” Holly said with a grimace, as she shifted away from his hold. “Seriously. Gross.”
He could feel the blood draining from his face, a sinking feeling in his stomach as he stared at her - like he was seeing a ghost. “What the hell are you doing here?”
“I was invited.”
“UD,” JD muttered, shaking his head. No wonder Dean had been acting so damn weird.
Holly nodded, a smirk quirking her lip upward. “I met your girlfriend,” she said pointedly. “She’s pretty.”
“Uncle Dean seems to think you two look alike.”
“You do too, apparently. Otherwise you wouldn’t have just tried to grab my ass,” she teased. “At least, I’d hope not.”
“But how did you even-?”
“Dean,” Holly repeated simply with a slight shrug. “He had gone to find Andrew, but found me instead. And he showed me a picture of Hannah… You know how they say everyone has a doppelganger? Nice to see that it’s not just one of those bullshit sayings.”
“Just because she looks vaguely like you -“
“Are you serious?” Holly challenged, brow rising in surprise.
“Are you seriously going to give me shit right now?” JD retorted. “You really think you get a say? Because if I remember correctly, you’re the one who took off with no notice.”
Holly bit her lip. “JD, I’m-“
“Yeah, yeah, you’re sorry,” he said. “It just skipped your mind for…four years. It’s cool, Holly. Not like anyone in this universe was worried about what happened to you or was a little confused when you just up and left.”
“Look at you, talking through your feelings like an adult.” Holly nudged him with her shoulder. “You’re getting soft.”
“Kiss my goddamn ass,” he responded eloquently, causing her to roll her eyes.
The front door opened and Mule stepped onto the porch. He paused, looking between the two. “Everything okay?”
JD looked over at Holly’s expectant gaze. “Yeah,” he conceded, but looked back at her pointedly. “You realize you’re going to be subjected to an inquisition, right?”
“Yeah,” Holly said quietly, a smile tugging at her lips.
“You ready to go?” Mule asked Holly, his keys in his hand. She nodded just as the door opened once more and Hannah stepped out.
“See you around, JD,” Holly said with a wave, heading directly for Mule’s car.
Mule hesitated, looking at JD, a smirk on his face. “JD, I think you need to get your eyes checked,” he lowered his voice. “Holly’s not even wearing clothes similar to Hannah’s. No wonder you have to hunt with Immortals, you’d be dead otherwise.”
JD glared at his brother’s back as Mule went to the car. Now wasn’t the time to beat the crap out of him.
“So, if she’s not the tall and scary one or the one with pink hair,” Hannah began, leaning against JD’s arm. “When am I going to meet them?”
If Holly had a say in it…
“Soon,” JD said. “Very soon.”
Title: Doppelganger
Author: divas_lament
Emotional and Brainstorming Support: fonapola
Rated: PG-13
Fandom: Supernatural, Smallville & Highlander
Characters: From The Immortal!Dean Universe by strangevisitor7 : Dean Winchester, Richie Ryan, JD Winchester, Katie Collins & MJ Winchester, Mule Winchester. From pen37 : Chloe from Meta!Chloe verse. From my Spawn Verse: Holly & Andrew Winchester.
Summary: Dean finds out JD gets a girlfriend that has a freakish resemblance to one of the mirror-jumpers and JD is in denial of this fact. Dean corrects this in the only way he knows how. Follow-up to That Went Well. APOCO!SPAWN.
There it was, leaning against the wall. Amidst the decor in the room, the mirror blended in perfectly, looking completely innocent among her brother's sparse furniture and the glass wall. The floor length mirror had traveled quite a ways to get to the Gotham penthouse. She had no idea of its story before it appeared in her Grandpa John's storage locker. From there, it resided in her purple bedroom in Smallville and her apartment in Metropolis.
The mirror had been in her life for more than a decade now. Running her hand along the runes etched into the frame, she looked upon the object sadly. More than anything she wished she could turn the dial at that moment and just pop out somewhere on the other side.
When she up and left years ago, she hadn't given any thought to the people on the other side of the mirror. It wasn't until one Thursday a month later when she realized she had made plans to meet JD for lunch that the realization sunk in and guilt began to course through her.
She wondered what he was up to now. Andrew had moved the mirror to Gotham after she frantically called him one night, telling him that he needed to keep the mirror safe - leaving it in her apartment in Metropolis with no one around wasn't a good idea. Since the mirror's move, Andrew had seen JD and Mule a few times, but with Andrew's insane work schedule due to the League, the visits had been few and far between.
It had been about four years since she had gone, maybe a little more.
“You sure you want to stay here?” Andrew asked as he entered the room, straightening his tie. “You’d have more stuff to do at the Manor…”
“I’d much rather have unlimited access to your TV to catch up on all the shows I’ve missed,” Holly said, tearing her gaze away from the mirror. “Can’t do that with all the people milling about in the Manor."
“You just want to go through my stuff,” he accused, eyes narrowed.
“Me? Never,” she smirked.
“Or you want a free pass to the mirror.”
Holly sighed. “I think my mirror jumping days are over.”
“What makes you say that?”
“It’s been too long.”
Andrew glanced at her, pulling on his suit jacket. He was going to an illegal meeting - Bruce had arranged for them to meet with some trusted people sympathetic to their cause against Lex’s law.
“I thought you’d say it’d be like riding a bike,” he said lightly.
“Yeah, well, I’ve got a date with your couch and the remote,” she responded.
---
Three hours into her marathon of an old sitcom, Holly heard a rustling in her brother’s room. Her brow furrowed as she glanced over to look at the doorway. She was ready to reach for a gun when she heard an excited voice call out:
“Andrew! Andrew? You here?”
Holly’s mouth opened slightly in shock. What the hell? She stood, tossing the remote down on the couch. In a few quick steps she crossed the room and nearly collided with the man exiting from Andrew’s bedroom.
“Dean?” Holly asked, brow furrowed in confusion.
He looked at her suspiciously for a second before grinning. “Just the person I wanted to see!”
Her brow rose. “You were just calling for Andrew.”
“How the hell would I know you’d be here?” Dean said defensively. “Where the hell have you been, kid?”
There was no accusation in his tone. Just a straightforward question as if she had left the room for a while and just showed back up instead of being gone for a few years.
“Around,” she said with a small smile. “Europe, mostly.”
“Got some time?” He asked. “I’ve got something to show you.”
---
“Weird.”
“Hilarious.”
“Weird,” Holly reiterated, staring at the photographs taken off Dean’s camera. “I mean, there are differences but….” She shifted uncomfortably. “Weird.”
“JD doesn’t even realize it,” Dean said, leaning back into the couch and drinking a beer he had swiped out of the fridge. Andrew had a good mix in there - imported and the classics. “She reminds me of Chloe and Katie, too.”
“Tell me you didn’t go for the incest joke.”
Dean grinned. “Someone had to.”
“Oh god,” Holly laughed, shaking her head.
“Hey, I got an idea,” Dean said, sitting up quickly. “What are you doing this weekend?”
Holly hesitated, wondering what this idea was. The gleam in his eye was something she felt weary about. She recognized it - after all, she inherited the same one. Usually, that gleam came before one of her brilliant (or not so brilliant) ideas.
Plus, she didn’t even know what next week was going to be like. Helping metahumans evade law enforcement? Teaching the League how to handle weapons? She had explained the situation to Dean earlier, half-wondering if the same thing was going on in his universe.
“She’s free.” Andrew answered for her as he entered the apartment and typed in the security alarm code. “How’s it going, Dean?”
“Good, good,” Dean said. “What’s with the monkey suit?”
“Work,” Andrew answered, loosening his tie around his neck and going to grab a beer from the fridge.
“Wait a minute, hold up,” Holly spoke, looking at her brother. “Since when do you encourage mirror jumping?”
“Since you’ve taken up residence on my couch,” Andrew replied with a shrug. “There’s only so many chick flicks I can take.”
---
JD walked around the car, opening the door for Hannah. She climbed out, looking at JD’s childhood home, carrying a plate of brownies. JD fidgeted awkwardly. It wasn’t often he brought girls home…or at all. At least since he had gotten his apartment.
“We can leave anytime,” JD said as they walked up the front path.
“JD, I don’t know what you’re worrying about,” Hannah said. “It’s your family, of course I want to meet them!”
He normally wouldn’t be worried. Ever since his mom found out about Hannah from Uncle Richie she had been nagging him to bring Hannah by. In her words, she wanted to meet the “girl that got her son so whipped he was singing emo rock.” She told him he had better bring her to the barbeque they were having that weekend to celebrate Robbie’s birthday. And Uncle Dean had been acting weird lately, avoiding JD. Somehow, he had a feeling the two things were connected.
JD shrugged slightly, pushing open the front door. People were crowded in the living room, walking between there and the kitchen. Most were out in the backyard.
“Ma!” He called, closing the door behind Hannah and narrowly avoiding two giggling girls as they rushed towards the backyard.
“In the kitchen!” Katie called back.
He grasped Hannah’s hand, leading her in the direction of the kitchen just as MJ was exiting.
“Hey, MJ!” JD said, attempting to catch his sister’s attention.
“Hey, JD!” She waved, turning and heading through the crowd of people and out of the room.
Strange, JD thought. Usually the girl stuck by him like glue.
Once the introductions had been made, Katie began chatting with Hannah, trying to get the dish about the relationship because JD never told her much. He glanced out the window to see where MJ had run off to. He saw her off to the side where Mule and a blonde in a sundress were talking.
“Mule bring a girl home?” JD asked, pointing out the window.
“What?” Katie responded distractedly, pausing in her conversation with Hannah. “Start bringing some of these dishes outside.”
---
“It’s so weird,” MJ said. “She looks just like you.”
“Oh yeah?” Holly said, sipping from her drink. She couldn’t get over it. Last time she had seen MJ the girl had been begging her to French braid her hair and now she was almost in high school and dating. Poor thing. Holly just had David and Andrew to deal with as Jack couldn’t care less who she dated. MJ had seven Winchester men and a handful of Immortals watching out for her. It was a miracle she was let out of the house.
“Yeah,” she nodded. “Except you’re a little taller and your hair’s a little darker ….and you’ve got a tan...”
“We get it, MJ,” Mule said, taking a drink of his beer. “Hannah is Holly’s freakish clone.”
The back door opened with JD, Hannah, and Katie filing out with trays of food to put on the table. Robbie, and what appeared to be half the senior class, practically filled the backyard, creating enough of an obstacle to see from where MJ, Holly, and Mule were standing.
“Now that I’m seeing her in person, she really does look like Grace and Mary, too,” Holly said distantly, mind beginning to wander and wonder how her sisters from other dimensions were doing. She would definitely have to find some time to go visit them and Chance. “Well, except the hair being dyed a crazy color and I don’t think she has knives strapped to her ankles.”
“You do realize that Grace and Mary are your sisters, right?” Mule responded, brow rising in amusement. “Genetics kind of dictate you’d all look similar.”
Holly glanced over at him, the corner of her mouth twitching upwards. “You’re growing a backbone in your old age. I’m not sure I like it.”
“I thought Dean was lying through his teeth when he said he was getting you to come,” Richie said as he walked over, having spotted them through the crowd of teenagers.
Holly smiled, giving Richie a hug. “Yeah, well, he caught me at the right time.”
“It’s been quiet without you around.”
“Now, that’s a lie,” Holly responded, rolling her eyes.
“Worth a shot.” Richie shrugged his shoulder. “So, where you been?”
“All over. I get around.”
Richie knew all too well the nomadic tendencies of the Winchester clan. “I would expect no less from a Winchester.”
“I’m telling Dean you called me a whore,” Holly deadpanned.
“I walked into that, didn’t I?” Richie grimaced. Mule nodded with a smile.
---
Chloe glanced over at Dean carefully. He had that look about him that made her suspicious. As Dean drove to Sam’s, he was quiet, only tapping his fingers on the wheel in time with the music. A self-satisfied smirk was on his face.
“What are you so smug about?” Chloe asked, unable to keep her questions at bay any longer.
Dean glanced over at her, offering her a shrug in response. “Nothing.”
“I don’t know what you planned, but if you wreck this for Robbie, Katie is going to skin you alive and I’m not going to do a thing to stop her,” she said, looking out the window.
“Don’t worry about Robbie.”
Chloe’s brow rose. “Who should I be worrying about then?”
Dean grinned.
---
“I don’t know what you were so worried about,” Hannah said after Katie left to go back inside to get more food ready. “Your family is great.”
“You’ve only met my Mom and the twins,” JD said quietly, grabbing some drinks out of the adult cooler.
“And your two uncles,” she pointed out with a smile.
“Yeah,” he muttered under his breath before taking a drink. That’s what I’m worried about.
---
It did not take long for Dean to find JD in the crowd of partygoers when they arrived. He zeroed in on his nephew and Hannah within moments and quickly headed in their direction. The grin on Dean’s face immediately roused suspicion in JD. Dean hated this sort of party, especially after the last one when someone questioned if Dean was one of Sam’s kids. There was no reason to be as damn cheerful as he was. It was unnerving.
“JD!” Dean called as he and Chloe made their way over to them. “Hannah, lovely to see you again. This is my girlfriend, Chloe.”
“Chloe Sullivan?” Hannah asked, a smile coming to her face. “It’s nice to meet you. I’ve read some of your articles in the Planet…”
“You did something,” JD said quietly, frowning at his uncle as Hannah and Chloe chatted.
“Me?” Dean asked innocently. “I just got here.”
“Why are you so damn happy then?”
“No reason,” he shrugged. “Just heard from an old friend, she’s like a daughter to me, you know…Anyway, I’m going to go get a beer.” He turned towards Hannah. “Want the grand tour? I doubt JD’s given you the real dirt on everyone.”
As Hannah walked away with his Uncle and Chloe, JD’s mind raced.
Like a daughter?
He needed to find Mule.
---
“There you are,” JD said, relieved when he finally saw Hannah again after she had wandered off with Dean. He hadn't found Mule, but that could wait. There were more pressing matters at hand. There really was no telling what Dean had told her. Dean had years of embarrassing stories and other nasty tidbits that JD really didn’t want getting out. “Thought you might have gotten lost.”
She grinned at him. “Sorry, was just sidetracked. Your sister said your cousin -“
“My cousin?” JD asked in confusion.
“Yeah, the blonde one,” Hannah nodded.
Mary? “Tall and scary?”
“She’s was kinda tall, but not very scary,” she answered, brow furrowing slightly in confusion.
“Pink streaks in her hair?”
“Are we playing ‘Guess who?’” Hannah teased. “JD, seriously, you need to relax. You’ve been on edge all day and everything is going fine…”
---
Dean and Chloe were able to find the group of Winchesters and Richie fairly quickly as most of the other guests at the party was under seventeen. After catching up for a few minutes, Dean looked around the yard eagerly.
“Has he seen you yet?” Dean asked, eyes scanning the crowd. Hannah had just been with them a moment ago, but they had gotten separated when a group of teenagers had made a mad dash for the food table.
Chloe shook her head. “I can’t believe you sometimes. As much as I love to see Holly, JD is nervous enough with bringing Hannah here in the first place and you decide to open a whole can of worms by having Holly here who doesn’t even exist in this universe. Not to mention the fact that Hannah does look uncannily like Holly and she might get some more weird, less supernatural, ideas about this family?”
“I didn’t really think of that,” he admitted, some of the glee that had been on his face moments ago fading away. An awkward silence passed through the group.
“So, in other news…Richie called me a whore,” Holly said, pointing to the man that could now probably pass as her younger brother.
“That’s not what I meant,” Richie responded dryly. “She’s twisting my words around.”
“Mule heard it.”
“I’m staying out of this,” Mule said, a smile on his face that slowly fell away. “But Chloe’s right, you know. As fun as teasing JD would be, there would be a lot of questions from Hannah that I don’t think JD is ready to answer.”
Holly nodded, looking up at him. “Wanna give me a ride to the mirror?”
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JD said he would meet Hannah out front. They’d made an appearance and he honestly couldn’t wait to leave. After prying himself away from Katie, promising that he would bring Hannah by on a day that was less chaotic, JD was finally able to make his way to the front porch. Hannah was leaning against one of the supports and he snaked his arm around her waist. What he didn’t expect was the slight zap of static electricity that shot through his arm when she touched him.
“Inappropriate touching, JD,” Holly said with a grimace, as she shifted away from his hold. “Seriously. Gross.”
He could feel the blood draining from his face, a sinking feeling in his stomach as he stared at her - like he was seeing a ghost. “What the hell are you doing here?”
“I was invited.”
“UD,” JD muttered, shaking his head. No wonder Dean had been acting so damn weird.
Holly nodded, a smirk quirking her lip upward. “I met your girlfriend,” she said pointedly. “She’s pretty.”
“Uncle Dean seems to think you two look alike.”
“You do too, apparently. Otherwise you wouldn’t have just tried to grab my ass,” she teased. “At least, I’d hope not.”
“But how did you even-?”
“Dean,” Holly repeated simply with a slight shrug. “He had gone to find Andrew, but found me instead. And he showed me a picture of Hannah… You know how they say everyone has a doppelganger? Nice to see that it’s not just one of those bullshit sayings.”
“Just because she looks vaguely like you -“
“Are you serious?” Holly challenged, brow rising in surprise.
“Are you seriously going to give me shit right now?” JD retorted. “You really think you get a say? Because if I remember correctly, you’re the one who took off with no notice.”
Holly bit her lip. “JD, I’m-“
“Yeah, yeah, you’re sorry,” he said. “It just skipped your mind for…four years. It’s cool, Holly. Not like anyone in this universe was worried about what happened to you or was a little confused when you just up and left.”
“Look at you, talking through your feelings like an adult.” Holly nudged him with her shoulder. “You’re getting soft.”
“Kiss my goddamn ass,” he responded eloquently, causing her to roll her eyes.
The front door opened and Mule stepped onto the porch. He paused, looking between the two. “Everything okay?”
JD looked over at Holly’s expectant gaze. “Yeah,” he conceded, but looked back at her pointedly. “You realize you’re going to be subjected to an inquisition, right?”
“Yeah,” Holly said quietly, a smile tugging at her lips.
“You ready to go?” Mule asked Holly, his keys in his hand. She nodded just as the door opened once more and Hannah stepped out.
“See you around, JD,” Holly said with a wave, heading directly for Mule’s car.
Mule hesitated, looking at JD, a smirk on his face. “JD, I think you need to get your eyes checked,” he lowered his voice. “Holly’s not even wearing clothes similar to Hannah’s. No wonder you have to hunt with Immortals, you’d be dead otherwise.”
JD glared at his brother’s back as Mule went to the car. Now wasn’t the time to beat the crap out of him.
“So, if she’s not the tall and scary one or the one with pink hair,” Hannah began, leaning against JD’s arm. “When am I going to meet them?”
If Holly had a say in it…
“Soon,” JD said. “Very soon.”