~Chapter Twenty-Seven~

   Moa had appeared Dean and Vikki to Katrina. She was surprised to see both of them. She was even surprised to see Moa. The moon was shining bright enough for her to see everyone there. Oddly. "Ah! What is that?! She cried. " Another creature!" 

   "No!" Vikki said and appeared his sword. Dean also did. They both started to attack the monster that was chasing after Katrina. She just stared.

   "W-What's going on?" Katrina thought to herself. Moa came by her.

   "Don't be afraid. I wasn't going to awake you now because I thought you will learn on your own, but... Katrina you are a chosen one just as they are."

   "What are you talking about?! Have you gone crazy?! I feel like I am stuck with crazy people!" Katrina said and was about to run off again. Moa grabs her arm. "Let me go! I am not no chosen one!" She yelled.

   "Yes, you are. You are a healer. You were a queen in your previous life." Moa tells her. He let's go of her arm. Katrina closes her eyes tight.

   "I don't understand what's going on! I feel like I am confused! And now Dean and Vikki have swords?! What's is going on?!" Katrina thought to herself. When she opened her eyes, she had a rod in her hand. She was so confused.

   "This is your magical rod. It will help you heal your allies." Moa tells her.

   "I am not doing anything! What are you talking about?!" Katrina asks. Dean and Vikki slayed the monster and it turned to dust. They both turned around and looked at her. Dean was amazed. He seen Katrina holding a rod. He knew that she had to be a chosen one like he and Vikki were.

   "That's great! Katrina! You're alright! You're a chosen one like us!" Dean said with a smile.

   "I am not anything! And don't you dare speak to me!" Katrina snaps at Dean. He stared at her confused. He didn't understand why she seemed to be angry.

   "Katrina, are you alright? Where were you? Dad and I have been worried about you!" Dean said. He wasn't lying. He was worried about Katrina.

   "Stop it! Stop it!" Katrina yelled. "I am not falling for it! You don't love me! I am not your freaking sister! You and your dad just used me as a replacement for your deceased sister! I was really named 'Bertha'! I am your cousin! And you all lied to me and used me!" Katrina cries. Dean wasn't sure what she meant.

   "What? What are you talking about? Cousin? Deceased sister? Aren't you really my sister?" Dean asks. He didn't understand what she meant. He didn't even know that Katrina was actually his cousin that was adopted to be his older sister. He knew nothing of it and thought that Katrina was his true older sister growing up. Katrina could just tell that Dean wasn't lying. She looked down.

   "What have I done? I thought something wrong..." Katrina thought as she still cried.

   "Dad cares about you too! He was worried about you! I don't know what you mean about someone being a replacement! I don't see you as one! You're my older sister and I don't care if you were adopted or not! If I truly had an older sister, I don't know her, but I never thought of you as a replacement of someone I never met." Dean explained to his sister.

   "No! Paul thinks of me as just a replacement for his daughter! That's why he renamed me! Explain why he renamed me then?!"

   "I am not sure... Katrina, Bertha... Whatever name you choose I will still feel the same. I don't think of you as a replacement. Katrina, I love you. You're my sister. I don't care if you were adopted. I don't care if you're my cousin. If I really had an older sister that I never met, well... I wish I could've met her, but that doesn't mean you're her replacement." Dean was trying to talk to Katrina. "Please come back home. Dad and I really miss you. So please... And if you're really a chosen one like we are that will be great! Vikki and I don't have to keep it a secret from you!" Dean said. Katrina closes her eyes tight.

   "NO!" She threw her rod and it fell to the ground. "I am not! I am not a chosen one! I am not anything! I am not going to be killed for a dumb Sea God either! I don't know what occult or whatever you two got yourselves into, but I will not be a part of it!" Katrina yelled. Vikki and Dean disappeared their swords.

   "Katrina, calm down." Vikki said. She shook her head.

   "NO!" Katrina ran off crying. When she ran off, her rod had disappeared.

   "What's wrong with her?" Dean asked Moa. "I don't understand."

   "She probably has been going through a lot. I think you both should try to talk to her." Moa suggested. Vikki ran off first. He went looking for Katrina. Dean then ran off to go looking for her. Katrina realized that she was lost in the woods and didn't even know where to go.

   "Where am I?! I am stuck in these darn woods! And that darn Lancer guy just left me here! And now I am forced to speak to someone that used me as a replacement!" Katrina started to cry. "I am such an idiot! I know Dean isn't cruel like that, but I... I still believed what Lancer said! But Lancer let me escape! How can he be bad?" Katrina wasn't sure what to think. She started to hear footsteps.

   "Katrina!" Dean yelled. She could hear him nearby.

   "I am not going to him!" Katrina decided to run in the opposite direction to get away from Dean. When she did, she bumped into someone and fell right on top of them. It was Vikki. Katrina was blushing red as she stared at Vikki who was underneath her.

   "H..Hey...: Vikki says a little nervously.

   "Why were you in my way?!" Katrina asks and glared at him.

   "She's so hot. Damn. The way she is on me. Dammit. I just like her a lot! I hope she doesn't realize how much this is really turning me on." Vikki thought to himself. Vikki hugs her.

   "Let me go!" Katrina yelled. Her face was red. Her heart was beating fast.

   "Katrina... please... come back home. It's not the same without you there. I miss you teasing me, yelling at me, calling me names. I miss it so much."

   "W-What?!" Katrina wasn't crying anymore.

   "Paul, your dad, he misses you. I can tell. He went to get cops looking for you. If he didn't care for you why would he do that? And this whole replacement crap? Katrina come on, you should know your family better than that. Especially Dean. And who the hell cares if Paul renamed you. Maybe he didn't like the name Bertha? Maybe he changed it because that's what your real father named you? I don't know. Or maybe he did it as to honor his deceased daughter. Whatever the reason is, he doesn't hate you." Vikki said. He started to hug her tighter. Katrina felt like she didn't want to move now.

   "Vikki... I..." Katrina felt relaxed lying on Vikki.

   "I love you." Vikki blurts out. He was blushing. His face was red. His heart was beating fast. He felt like it was going to explode as he admits his feelings.

   "You love me?" Katrina asks. Dean and Moa came over and found them.

   "Well, what do we have here?" Moa laughed. Katrina and Vikki got embarrassed.

   "What are you two doing?" Dean asks. Katrina got off of Vikki and stood up. Vikki did the same.

   "I...I decided I want to go home." Katrina said. Her voice started to break as she started to cry again. "I feel so stupid for running off!" Katrina ran over to Dean and hugs him. Dean hugs her back.

   "It's okay! I am sure dad will be just as happy as I am to see you come back home!" Dean said with a smile.

   "I love you...Katrina..." Vikki thought to himself as he stared at her. They got out of the woods and made it back home. Moa appeared them in front of their home. By the front door.

   "Dad is probably going to be angry with me for running away." Katrina said feeling nervous.

   "I am sure he won't. Just tell him the truth." Dean said. Katrina felt nervous. They all walk into their home. Moa disappears. Paul seen them all coming in through the hallway.

   "What?" He was surprised to see Katrina. She felt nervous.

   "I...I am sorry." Katrina apologized to Paul. He stared at her.

   "W-Why did you run off? How did you two find her?" Paul asks. "Are you okay, Katrina?!"

   "I am fine!" Katrina said. She started to cry yet again.

   "I think we should let these two talk." Dean said and grabs Vikki and runs upstairs with him. Katrina was with Paul in the living room. They were sitting down on the sofa.

   "Why did you run off?" Paul asked her.

   "I thought...I thought you didn't really care for me. You only see me as a replacement for your real daughter. Your daughter that passed away. I found out I was adopted." Katrina admits.

   "Katrina... I am sorry I didn't tell you sooner. I didn't know how to. I didn't want to hurt your feelings."

   "I want to know, why did you rename me? Why did you name me after your daughter?" Katrina asked.

   "I admit. It was wrong for me to do. My wife and I decided to. Dean's mother that passed. She and I were upset that our real daughter was taken from us so quickly. We should've thought it more through before we decided to rename you. Dean's mother, Diane, she said that it was easier for her to call you 'Katrina' because she felt like her daughter came back to her again. But... I am sorry if that sounds like she was seeing you as a replacement. She didn't attend for it and told me she felt bad for thinking that. But she really loves you just as I did. Even if our real daughter was alive and we still adopted you. We wouldn't think less of you, nor would we think of you as a replacement."

   "I missed you and Dean. But... why did you two actually go through with naming me after your daughter?"

"Sometimes people do things. Like if I were to have another child, I would like to name it after my mom or something like that. I ended up renaming you, naming you after my daughter that passed. Diane and I weren't thinking properly when it all happened. Your mother was best friends with Diane. She was young when she had you. Harold was married to a woman. His wife kept having miscarriages, which we think it was his fault. He ended up cheating on his wife with your mother. "

   "My mom made uncle Harold, I mean my dad cheat?"

   "Not exactly. Your mother cried to Diane and said that Harold forced himself on her."

   "My mom was raped just like Lancer said..." Katrina thought to herself and was looking down.

   "Your mother only lived a month after you were born. She kept telling us that she felt like something was going to happen to her one day and asked us if something ever did, if we would adopt you and take care of you. Your mom, Mary, was really going to name you 'Katrina' before you were born in honor of my deceased daughter but she ended up going with a different name because she thought it made us uneasy because of our daughter. But your mother she liked the name from her decised mother."

   "I'm really named after my grandmother? Harold is crazy. He will never be my dad." Katrina said.