Prologue

"Dean!" Sam yelled.

Dean was staring at himself in the mirror for more than twenty minutes.

"Are you gonna stare at yourself all day? We still have to get to Bobby's and were at least 6 hours out." Sam said stuffing his and Dean's clothes into a duffel bag sprawled across the bed.

Dean splashed some water on his face. "Yeah. Just thinking." Dean replied almost a whisper.

Sam stopped for a moment and walked over to the door frame staring at Dean. He hadn't been the same since he'd back from hell. He'd changed. Nothing to drastic, just different. "Dean, are you sure you're feeling okay? I mean you seem a little..off lately." Sam was a little adamant on the response he was going to receive.

"Just a little tired but nothing a little breakfast won't cure." He shot Sam on of his trademark smiles assuring him everything was going to be alright, knowing that he wasn't sure if anything was going to be the same.

Sam and Dean pulled up to the diner. Sam rummaged around in the duffel looking for his wallet while Dean got his gun from the trunk.

"Do you really think you need that in a diner..in the middle of nowhere?" Even as he said it he realized how it made ridiculous him sound.

Dean threw him the knife. "You're on stab duty." Dean said with a smirk.

"Aha, you're hilarious Dean." Sam put the knife into his belt loop and they walked in the Diner.

The waitress came over and placed two menu's on the table. They skimmed it over and order coffee, waffles, bacon and eggs. Sam surveyed the silverware to see if it was suited for using. Dean stared out the window with his head on his chin.

"Are you sure you're feeling okay Dean?" Sam said more curious than ever.

Dean just kept staring as if he was in another world. Sam could see the foreign look in his eyes as if he was reliving something from his past.

Unbeknownst to Sam, Dean was envisioning his stint in hell. Dean jerked out of his horrifying flashback and the waitress placed their food on the table. The boys finished their breakfast, paid and head out to the impala for their trek out to Bobby's.