Sadly, google is failing me in this.
I really just want someone that Claire can bully into hitch hiking/stealing a car to try and track down her mom. because this is a thing I want to do, and no one is biting the Ben and/or Jesse bait for NRFTW
so yeah, gods and goddesses of the child type variety. hmm.
The Prohpet Chuck:
The sad part about it all was that Dean and Sam fought so hard to save the future, but they never truly did. They still hunt, but now they know how Bobby felt having to watch people they knew as children grow up into this life. Now they worried. Yet they knew they had to leave the future in the hands of a Smart-Ass Kid, a Empty Vessel, an Abomination, and a Monster-Without-Its-Fangs. How were they supposed to survive?
“He’s a monster, guys. I don’t trust him,” Ben said as he looked between Jesse and Claire with a mild look of confusion, so reminiscent of his adoptive father. “Plus he threatened to kill my dad. How am I supposed to trust him.”
“You don’t trust anyone who isn’t human,” Claire said with a roll of her blue-green eyes before giving him a look of contempt. “You tend to forget you’re the only normal one here, Ben.”
“You’re a sick kid with a hero complex. She’s a bitch with daddy issues. And I’m the Anti-Christ, but you trust me. Smart, Ben. Plus he’s got a good heart. That has to count for something,” Jesse said looking to his best friend, who just shook his head. All the while trying to ignore the daggers that Claire was glaring at him.
“No, he’s right. I am a monster. But damnit I don’t kill people,” Rory said with a tight throat as if he were on the verge of tears, more angry than anything. “I threatened your dad when I was a kid and he had just killed my mother.”
“Who was a monster and killed people.”
“Dude,” Jesse said with a shake of his head. “He’s staying. We need him and you’re going to get over it. He’ll sleep in bed with me.”
Ben glared at Jesse just then. “The hell he will.”
This is who the Winchester’s left the world in the hands of and not a day goes by where they don’t spend at least an hour regretting it.
Oh lordie XD
I like this. Not exactly how I see it happening, but I definitely like this.
(…I was confused for a long moment over “Rory”. Because his name is Jacob, so sayeth Amy when she introduces him, but I can see him changing his name in an attempt to stay under the radar so. it’s all good. )
When it comes to Ben Braeden, Claire is of two minds.
She wishes her relationship with him was as easy to define as her relationship with Jesse Turner. When it comes to the Antichrist, her opinion is simple and straight forwards: she means it when she calls him “Assbutt”. She doesn’t care very much for the magical misfit, and doubts that will ever change. There are just too many years of mutual antagonism between them.
She doesn’t care for his relationship with Ben, either. Although the boys are closer in age to her, it grates on her nerves that Jesse has so much more influence than she does.
But Ben himself… her feelings for him are so difficult to pin down. Jesse is dislike and mistrust but she has no word, no definition for what Ben means to her. It is something… more than anything she’s ever felt. She cares so very deeply for him, enough so that she would and has dropped everything to come when he calls for her. She has gone to him when he needed a shoulder to lean on, and when all he wanted to do was share a beer in celebration of his mother’s birthday.
The part that frustrates her is that Ben doesn’t quite feel the same pull.
(She would be absolutely devastated to learn just how similar her relationship with Ben is to the one that Castiel once had with Dean Winchester. She would be horrified to think that of all the things that Castiel had to leave her with it was that.)
She hates the unknowing hold that he has over her, but she can’t find it in herself to hate Ben. She has kissed him and lain with him. She has hit him and run from him. She has caught him in bed with others, and he has cheered her on as she flirted and teased her way across the country, scoring them cheap eats and cheaper beds.
She loves him, but she hates his effect on her.
The first time that Ben meets Claire, he’s nineteen and she has just turned seventeen. Although he’s still joe normal at this point, still thinks that the world is understandable and the supernatural only exists in television and movies, it’s a memorable first meeting.
It’s hard to forget pulling someone out of the wreckage of their car.
He doesn’t even know what happened that night. Only that he stumbled across the destroyed car and found an unconscious girl in the driver’s seat. He managed to get her out and checked her for injuries before calling the police.
Miraculously, she was uninjured. She also disappeared from the hospital over night. It was only later that he found out that her name was Claire Novak, and she had disappeared along with her mother five years earlier. They had left a dead body behind, and both had been wanted for questioning.
–
The second time that Claire and Ben meet, she is nineteen and he is twenty one. Even if she had been conscious when he pulled her from the wreck, she wouldn’t have recognized him as the same man. He’s lost a lot of the muscle and bulk that had helped to rescue her, and he has shaved all of his hair off. Curling away from his temple is a long line of stitches holding together a rather nasty looking gash.
She’s not impressed. She’s seen a lot of hunters take some pretty severe damage from stupid stunts, and this looks like just another idiot looking to get himself killed. Still… he’s the guy she’s here to see, the guy who jumped through all the hoops to even get her number, let alone the thousand and one checks she put him through just to make sure he was neither angel nor demon.
When they part, he has her personal cellphone number, and she has the first of many stories about how he got the head wound.
–
Their third meeting is a year later, when Claire finds herself on a hunt that crosses his. Claire has been tracking a demon for months, and Ben has found himself on a salt and burn directly in the demon’s path. It’s Ben’s first encounter with a real demon since he turned hunter, but Claire is stunned to discover that he actually knows what he’s doing.
They manage to exorcise the demon, and burn the ghost, all in the same two hour span. Claire manages two beers before she’s falling asleep, and Ben lets her crash in his motel room instead of the in the backseat of her car.
He’s still shaving his head, and she gets another story about the scar when he catches her staring at it. She smacks him upside the head in response. He promises to call her if anything demon related winds up on his radar.
He calls her every couple of weeks even when it doesn’t.
–
The fourth meeting is on purpose, with Claire bringing a blessed weapon to Ben so he can destroy the creature that has been plaguing a mid-western town for six months. It’s not an exaggeration, either; the creature feasts upon diseased souls, and the entire town is under quarantine when she arrives.
Claire kicks up a fuss when she finally tracks Ben down and discovers that his scar has split open. It’s not the puss and blood that scares her— it’s the ectoplasm slowly oozing out of it.
Ben kisses her to get her to shut up.
–
The fifth time doesn’t have anything to do with the supernatural or life threatening situations.
Ben takes her out to dinner and a movie, and they both wind up throwing popcorn at the screen. They really should have known better than to pick a vampire flick.
–
It’s not until she’s twenty-two that she finds out that the scar came from brain surgery, and it takes meeting his mother to learn that. He rolls his eyes and complains about losing his mystique thankyouverymuch mom.