A Saving Grace
How I ended up back at Jody's was a blank. I don't know how long I was at Bobby's, sitting in the dirt crying my heart out. What I do remember is a hand on my shoulder and a soft, sweet voice of a girl, "Let's go home Talia."
Of course, my brothers were still there. Alex and Patience weren't anywhere to be seen. I was on the floor with someone, sitting in their lap, but with my head still reeling and my vision blury I couldn't tell who it was.
"Hey, are you okay?"
There it was, that voice. Her voice.
Finally I lifted my head to see Claire. It was Claire.
No words came out of my mouth when I opened it so I shrugged my shoulders.
"How did I get back here?" I said, my voice a horse whisper.
"After you left, we thought it best to wait a little and give some space. A half-hour passed and you didn't come back. When we decided to look for you, we had no clue where to start. You hadn't been around town much. But it was Claire who thought of checking Bobby's." Sam calmly replied.
Claire was the one who found me. We hadn't even know each other for a day, yet she thought of where to find me. My brothers didn't think to check Bobby's.
But that meant Claire saw me crying and being an emotional train wreck.
"Thanks." I slurred.
"I think you need to go to sleep Tal." Claire worried.
"Don't like sleep. The nightmares-"
"I know. But you have to get some sleep, even if it gets interrupted by nightmares. Otherwise how am I supposed to hang out with a cool bad-ass like you? It wouldn't be as much fun if you kept falling asleep on me, now would it?"
I giggled "You're the cool bad-ass."
"We both are cool bad-asses." Claire grinned, leaning her head around my neck to kiss my cheek.
"But only if you go to bed." She added.
"Mmm...okay."
I let Claire help me up and lead me down the hall to my room.
<Sam, Dean, Jody>
"I feel jealous. Talia is never that compliant with me." Dean huffed.
Sam smiled, "I think this shows us that this is the perfect place for her to heal."
Jody nodded her head, "Agreed. Maybe it'll do Claire some good too."