Here By My Side DW/SPN crossover | Prologue
Title: Here By My Side [AU! Doctor Who/Supernatural crossover] | Prologue
Author: dk323
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Dean Winchester/Martha, Castiel, Ten
Spoilers:
Supernatural ~ occurs between 4x17 “It’s A Terrible Life” and 4x18 “The Monster at the End of This Book”
Doctor Who ~ Prologue takes place toward the end of “Smith and Jones”
Disclaimer: Don’t own Doctor Who, just playing with its characters. The show Supernatural is property of The CW and Eric Kripke. No money being made.
Summary: AU! You try to make things right, to make you feel better about what has happened. But sometimes, it's just - it doesn't seem like enough.
Author’s notes: Birthday fic for otterfudge.
Prologue:
~ * ~
She was just about to turn a corner when someone rushed her from behind and pushed her against the wall of the alley. In her moment of surprise, her red leather jacket fell out of her grasp to the ground.
Martha was trapped in place, facing the wall and unable to see who had accosted her.
“Where’s the bracelet, sweetheart?” The person - she now knew had to be a male - asked her softly.
Martha found it odd that she wasn’t more scared than she should have been. She should be screaming now, shouldn’t she? But she felt a sense of familiarity with the person. She wasn’t quite sure why though.
She took a deep breath and then said, “It would help if you’d let me go.”
“All right, okay. You have the bracelet? I need to see it.”
He let her go and Martha turned around to face him. She moved her hand to her jeans pocket and took out a silver charm bracelet with cross and pentagram charms decorating it.
She held the bracelet in her palm. Martha couldn’t help but be curious as to why she had taken it with her - to Leo’s 21st birthday party no less. “Here you go. I’m not sure why I decided to take it. Weird, huh?”
“Can you put it on?”
“Okay,” she said. No harm in doing that.
Martha clasped the bracelet around her wrist.
She looked up at him, so she could ask him who he was, but then the man touched the bracelet.
And she remembered.
“Dean - I thought I wouldn’t see you again.”
He grinned at her. “Miss me?”
She rolled her eyes at his smug look. Martha had only met him once before, but he definitely put on the charm when he wanted to.
She gave him a serious look. “I want to know what’s going on. You never tell me why you’re visiting - I don’t like being left in the dark.”
“Sorry, not yet. I know it must be frustrating, but I just - I wanted to get to know you.”
The sad, oddly earnest look on his face was so fleeting that Martha wasn’t sure it had even been there in the first place.
“I don’t have time now to talk. I have to --”
“We don’t have to talk this time. There are other things we can do.”
He whispered the last part in her ear.
Dean placed his hands on her waist and pulled her toward him. His lips brushed hers before Martha gave a little grin and returned the kiss, her hands on either side of his head.
“You’re something else,” he breathed out as her tongue licked his lips to gain entry inside.
“Stick around. I can do a lot more,” she said.
He didn’t answer her. There was no need - words couldn’t do justice.
Martha gently pulled away after a short while. No matter how heated it was and how much she’d rather stay here with him, she knew she couldn’t. “I should go,” she said quietly.
Dean had a momentary look of disappointment before he composed himself. “Yeah, okay.”
“Someone is waiting for me. He’s expecting me, I think.”
Dean rubbed the back of his head, looking down. “Yeah, the alien dude. I get it. I’ll see you sometime.”
Martha looked at him, a question in her eyes. “How do you know about him? The alien?”
He gave her a half smile. “That’s not really important. I just have friends in high places who tell me things - don’t worry about it. Really - don’t.”
Martha decided it would be best to let the question go. He clearly wasn’t up to sharing everything with her just yet.
“Okay, so I’ll see you in about a week, right? You’ll be back.”
He just looked at her, not saying a word.
“Dean?”
Martha thought she had heard a flutter of wings the moment before. Or she could have just been hearing things. Despite seeing alien rhinos and meeting a human-looking alien that day, she still had her doubts. Not every odd noise was a supernatural occurrence, right?
Dean’s voice took her out of her reverie.
“I should have done something more,” Dean said.
“Sorry? I don’t understand,” Martha said, puzzled as to what he meant.
The next moment she was standing alone in the alley way. Martha shrugged, not sure what had just happened.
What had she just been doing? She had seen the Doctor beckoning her and she had decided to follow him.
Right, that was it. Martha shook her head and after collecting her jacket off of the ground, she walked the rest of the way.
When she reached the Doctor, Martha found him standing by a rather out of place blue police box.
And he was waiting for her.
Here goes nothing, she thought to herself.
~ * ~
“The blame doesn’t fall on you, Dean.”
Dean looked at the same woman he had just left, but the only similarity now was in physical appearance.
Hell, she wasn’t even human.
“If that’s all the angelic advice you’re going to offer, Cas, then I don’t want to hear it. This is hard enough as it is. I should have asked you to find someone else, anyone else. But I didn’t.”
Dean turned away from the angel. It was too jarring to look at her for now.
Castiel looked down, a sympathetic expression on her face. “Time was not in our favor, Dean.”
He only huffed in response and then said, “Get me out of here.”
She nodded and with a touch of his forehead, the two were gone.
*
Part One